Mistakes in Designing a Lesson Plan

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Last week and throughout this week was the busiest week for me. There are many thing that i need to handle beside the assignment, forum and tutorial. I am very busy with the activity club and the program that i involve in it. Also, I am starting to do business in getting experience and gain profit. So for this entry I am gonna write about my reflection on mistake when designing the lesson plan.

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Do you know what is the lesson plan? I think all the teacher and educator to-be will know about the lesson plan or we call it as ‘Rancangan Pengajaran Harian’. Based on Wikipedia, lesson plan is  a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction, or 'learning trajectory' for a lesson. A daily lesson plan is developed by a teacher to guide class learning. Details will vary depending on the preference of the teacher, subject being covered, and the needs of the students. So, we know that lesson plan is use as a guide for teacher during teaching and learning process.

To have an effective class during teaching and learning process, we need to have an excellent lesson plan and apply it in the class. Not just make a lesson plan but did not apply it in the class. Such a waste! If you want to be a best teacher never skip or ignore about lesson plan. As i said before, ‘Teacher is NOBLE job’. From what i have learned last week in the pedagogy class, I would write 4 mistake in designing a lesson plan. Lets dig up!

First, the objective that we put in the lesson plan is not actually been apply in the class. In designing the lesson plan we need to think about the objective first. The objective will be a measurement tool in teaching and learning process. If you put 3 objective in the lesson plan for 40 minutes class, you need to make sure that we achieve the objective. Never put the objective that you know it cant be achieve between the times. As a teacher we know either we can achieve it or not.

Next is plannning too much or too little. For the lesson plan we need to be accurate with what we want to teach. Do not squeeze all the topics in the one time. It can not achievable. You can split it between the other time. Its very important for the student to get what we teach. If you plan it too little, we know that it can waste the time. For example, you already done teach in the class and still have 20 minutes before the class end. Its impossible for teacher to give an order to the student to do anything. It is really an appropriate although i know the student will likes it (because I am also a student). Hehehe...

In lesson plan, we need to put learning material that we want to use in the class. We know right how we gonna use the materials in the class. But do not over on material that are gonna be use. Do not put the material just to make it "wow" but we actually do not use it. What we get if we put something that we do not use? It can waste your time to write it. 

Lastly, the student activities. As a teacher we create what the activities that the student will do in the cl;ass in the lesson plan. But the mistakes that we do, is we put the student activities in the lesson plan is not direct and effective ways to the objective that we create in the lesson plan. For example, we teach about supply and demand but we give the activity that do not related with supply and demand. So the student activity is not suitable because it is not based on the objective that we want to achieve. Please do not make activity just to kill the times with the student. The student activity is one of tool in knowing either they understand or not. 

In conclusion, lesson plan is very important in teaching and learning process. We need it as a guidelines. We need to create a lesson plan that we can achieve it and suitable for student. Never make the lesson plan just to give the principal to check it but we need to apply it. 

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