QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LESSON PLAN

·         How important do you think a lesson plan is to a successful lesson?

     I think is very important to include a lesson plan in a class because it is an instruction or a guide for what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. A lesson plan will help teachers to have a successful class and they won’t feel worry about what they can do because all is prepared before to start it.

   What features do you think a lesson plan should include?

   According to Shrum and Glisan (1994) the lesson plan should include:

·         Objectives established for each class clearly indicate that students will learn which activities are appropriate, focus and direction and are easily measurable.

·         Activities and procedures to be used to succesfully targets.

·         Plan class containing the five phases.

·         Do you think it is a good idea to strictly follow a lesson plan?  Why?

     I consider teachers should follow a lesson plan provided that the plan is helping to produce the desired outcome, but it’s all depend of the necessities of the classroom, sometimes teachers are forces to deviate the original lesson plan.

·         Some people think that lesson plans severely restrict teachers’ creativity. Do you agree?  Explain your answer.

     Some teachers believe that by doing a lesson in class, will fill a lot of work, because for example in my case I work with 3 degrees and make a lesson plan for each area and for three degrees I would demand a long time, however the profle teacher must be creative and therefore class lessons should be equal. This way, I can with a lesson plan, the degree of creativity, for example, if we want to avoid making a plan for each area of a different theme is increased; then we should choose a topic where you can work with different areas, for example, the theme will be "the human body" so that I can work from English, mathematics, religion, social. and thus we are being creative.