Module 5 / Unit 5 / Activity 3

Marc Finks

Module 5 – Unit 5 – Activity 3

Activity 3: Importance of Lesson Planning and Preparation

I thought that this was really helpful. Unpacking a standard and thinking about the objectives will be really helpful in writing lesson plans in the future. I haven’t really needed or used lesson plans in the past, as I usually just think and plan ahead about what I want to do, and then I remember my ideas and do them, but I can see how this would be useful.

I think it have been helpful to have several examples of lesson plans from different schools and different teachers. We keep learning about differentiating instruction, and I’ve read about how important it is to use media while teaching because it’s so much easier to get the idea across sometimes with a simple image. This would have been one of those times. If we could have had several lesson plans to model our own off of, I think that this module would have been less stressful for some people.

However, other than that, I liked the idea of trying to plan ahead, and I know that if had to teach tomorrow the unit that I planned for, then I would be able to walk into the classroom and teach it without any hesitation.