Planning Your Work

Why good teachers plan their work?

• ·         It makes life easier for them in the classroom.
• ·         It saves time.
• ·         You know what you will need for the next class.

We can divide the plan into three:

• 1.    Short term planning: it might be for a unit of work.
• 2.    Lesson planning: it might be for individual lessons.
• 3.    Long term planning: it might be for a whole term.

Long term planning will take place either before or at the beginning of term, and you can do it before you ever see your pupils. After the long term planning is done, we have to create the short planning term; this one is much easier because we may be planning the lessons in one unit; that topic could be created from tree to ten lessons. Depending on the topic and texts that we want to use; you are going to teach the topic for one unit or for one week; remember the more you teach, the easier it gets to change other´s people plans.

Lesson planning has to be done before every lesson. Unless you work with another teacher in the classroom, you should do it alone. If you want to know if your lessons are working or not, you should ask yourself if the pupils learned what you wanted them to learn. A good time to do that is after every unit.

As you know there are several things that can go wrong in your class and you should be prepared for that. For example: external disturbances (something outside the classroom is butting in the class, so the child get distracted), internal disturbances (a child start to talk and laugh at someone), and the class is out of control (the children are running and screaming aloud in the classroom and you do not know what to do.