Instituto de Estudios Superiores

John F. Kennedy

Lesson Planning

Celta Course Training

Josue Miranda Amador

July 9th, 2015

Planning

When I was student, I never heard about planning, maybe, it was not part of my
teachers tasks. I never see any teacher reading a Planning program or applying it. I can
remember my classes at secondary school or high school and almost all of them were really
traditional, I mean, there were no activities thought to cover the different needs, skills or
learning styles of the students. Every class started withOpen your book on page and
we followed the books instructions.
Nowadays, as an English teacher, Its hard to understand how my teachers could
recognize the students needs, or, how could they know if students had understood all the
concepts? What is more, how could they know when they reached the objectives of the
class?
Planning is one of the most important things, with reference to Brithis Columbia
Institute of Technology planning is an organized set of activities designed to present one
manageable-sized piece of your course, it is like a treasure map, and the treasure is
interpreted as students learning or students production, Lesson planning helps ensure that
classroom instruction aligns with curriculum goals and objectives and therefore enables
students to demonstrate their successful learning.
Lessons not only shape how and what students learn, they also impact student
attitudes toward language learning. It is the lesson not the curriculum or the unit plan that
students actually experience. It is through the lessons they teach each day that teachers
communicate what language learning is all about and what they believe matters in language
learning. As they experience the lesson, students may decide whether they will or will not
invest their time and energy to learn the material, in spite of the fact that planning is one of
the most difficult tasks for teachers, this is because it is not easy to connect every activity to

the next one or to the class objective, furthermore, it is more difficult to find exercises and
activities which fits to our students needs.
At school , I dont need to create or stablish a set of sequenced activities, because the
scholar system has already planned all the activities and objectives of every course book, as
teacher I just need to follow the plan and indeed, the lesson plan includes extra activities in
order to reinforce students lacks.
When I do planning, I find most difficult to connect an activity with another one or to
stablish different kind of activities, due to the fact of the multiple intelligences, in addition
to this, some teachers do lessons planning thinking that students are robots, students are not
computers, and we dont create software (activities) to be installed in their brains, expecting
that magically it will be learned.
Moreover, sometimes students dont understand a topic and teachers must to take
more time trying to explain or looking for another activities in order to reinforce the topic,
for this reason is that as teachers, we cannot always respect the amount of time or stage
stablished on the lesson plan, because, many times teachers are simultaneously trying to
monitor students learning while also making significant instructional decisions, and
sometimes teacher need to reconsider some activities and usually it happens during the
presentation of the new information.
Teachers need time to think through their lesson goals and objectives. They need to
consider the logical progression of the lesson as it unfolds to lead students to improved
knowledge and performance.
Planning is a tool which is really helpful when teachers spend time thinking on their
students needs and lacks, on the other side, it can be a headache for teachers who dont
love the incredible act of teaching.

References
2010 BCIT Learning and Teaching Centre British Columbia Institute of
Technology Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada http:/ 2010 BCIT Learning and
Teaching Centre British Columbia Institute of Technology Burnaby, British
Columbia, Canada/www.bcit.ca/files/ltc/pdf/ja_lessonplans.pdf

Pentronics Publishing 2006: teaching for success

https://www.wwcc.wy.edu/facres/tfs/focalites/LessonPlan_Focalite.pdf