Reflection 1

When most people hear the words lesson plan, they never think deep into it. Most people usually just think of it as something a teacher has to do. This is because they do not realize just how much effort, work, and thought, goes into creating just one lesson plan. A lesson plan is more than just a few words and activities thrown around by teachers to get their bosses off their backs. In a classroom, a lesson plan is like the Bible, it has everything in it you need in order to successfully manage a classroom.

Lesson plans are thorough images of the course teaching for a certain class. They are created to perform as a guide for instructing a classroom. The exact detail of a lesson plan varies however based on requirements deemed by their districts, and teacher’s individual lesson plan style. There are many different lesson plan formats, but most lesson plans share many of the same fundamentals.

A common lesson plan, would include a title for the lesson plan, allotted time to complete the lesson, materials that will be needed in order to do the lesson, a list of objectives, a set that allows students to center on the concepts and skills of the lesson, an instructional component which illustrates the teacher’s participation and the steps the students used towards finding new abilities and experiment with new ideas, a exhibition of how students will use independent practices, an entire summary of the lesson plan, a reflection that leads to an analysis that allows teachers to go back and view the lesson plan and make changes for improvement, and a continuity which allows for the lesson to be seen in lessons to come.

Now, after seeing how much work goes into just a basic lesson, one can deduce that lesson plans are way more than a few random words strewn on a piece of paper like random ingredients in vegetable soup. Although lesson plans are a lot of work, they allow for better classroom management and efficiency. So, a lesson plan is the heart of the classroom. Without one, classrooms, teachers, and schools would go askew.