Third blog post

Teacher Planning

Have you ever traveled with a ship does not have any instruction about where to go and how to go? You cannot because there are captains making plans for the ship where to go and how to go. We can regard the lesson a ship and captain as a teacher. We have two-sample lesson plan today and I want to compare them with their weaknesses and strength with you. One of them is plan of a computer lesson and the other one is plan of an e-mail lesson plan.

We have steps of lesson plan and we will talk about differences of the two-lesson plan with these steps. Firstly, I want to start with first lesson plan. It does not have a plan for required differention in case of teacher have a problem. Syntax of learning activities is not proper. It does not include a closure. It has an assignment as a project but project does not give any information. There is no in-formal assessment. The second lesson plan does not have any modification plan in case of a problem. Prior knowledge is not sufficient. Syntax is not proper.

 

 Let us start with showing weaknesses of the two-lesson plan. Firstly, I want to start with computer lesson plan. The essential question about using graphic drowns before and students will be able to interpret those graphics. The lesson plan has an obvious goal can be understood easily. However, some objectives are unnecessary and so special. For example, one of the objective about changing column graphic to figure graphic and the other one is about changing figure graphic to column graphic. They are same and can be written in one sentence. In addition, lesson will start but we still could not hear any sentence about any class modification.  Then, teacher starts giving a superficial introduction and much knowledge about subjects. I think this is so fast and syntax of learning activities is not proper. Students may not remember all information when practicing them so it should be step by step.  A bit information and a bit practicing should go together. Teacher does not ask any question to learn about students and does not measure class tension for understanding of students. Formative assessment is low during class time. Teacher determines what to do for evaluating after class but we cannot guess the judgment and evaluation criteria. On the other hand, the second lesson plan has an understandable goal but its objectives are not good, they are soon like the goal.  Introduction is not detailed and practice part does not give any information to create a lesson plan, it only tells that students will create a lesson plan. There is a checking for understanding part but it does not have any relationship with informal assessment. Closure is definitely same with goal. Finally, second plan is definitely terrible.

Finally, I want to talk about strengths of the two-lesson plan. In the first plan, before starting to the lesson, teacher use remembering which is a part of cognitive development by asking a question about last week’s learned facts for students to recall. In addition, teacher gives prior knowledge about today’s class subjects to inform students. Teacher works to increase class motivation by asking question about what they did last weeks. On the other hand, the second lesson plan approximately includes all properties of our required lesson plan steps but it does not include any helpful information in it. However, development part is the only part can be helpful. It can be used as a prior knowledge and explain general aim.