Flexibility
I try to be as flexible as possible with my lesson plans. There always seems to be some meeting or school function that will through off my plans.
Katrina,
Your example of how you plan your instructional delivery is a good one. I appreciate your comments about disruptions because they to are a fact of life. We need to be flexible and be able to work around or through them while keeping the class on target.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Although, its tedious I've learned applying a range of time for each part of my lecture helps a lot (intro - 10 mins, overview of syllabus - 20 mins, etc.) and also allotting for extra time at the end of the lesson in general helps a lot. For example, I expect to be done somewhere from 12:30 to 1pm gives me time for questions and/or the unexpected. Unfortunately, being an educator, in general, we have to be prepared for an administrator to randomly walk in and need something or a student to leave in the middle of class yet you need to briefly discuss what is assigned. It gets frustrating but it has definitely taught me how to multitask in life ;-)
Charles,
This is why instructors need to have their polices clearly spelled out in their syllabus and then be consistent in the enforcement of those polices.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I agree to that, someone will say you did it for Student x why cant you do it for me
Be flexible to one student may make you feel that you need to be flexible to all.
Flexibility in the lesson plan is good, sometimes some students will not understand the lesson so you will need to go and repeat the lesson.
