Essay On Importance Of Planning

A wise man by the name of Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”. Planning is essential because it one of many characteristics of becoming an effective teacher. It involves thinking, organizing, and creating prior to teaching a lesson to students. Planning allows the teacher to create lessons that adhere to each of her student’s individual needs (i.e. kinesthetic/tactile, auditory and visual learners), to group students based on their learning needs and assists (i.e. partners should complement one another; a high enrichment student should not be paired with a low scoring remedial student) and to develop a well thought out lesson that has all of the kinks worked out before hand, so the lesson can flow smoothly when it is

When planning, a teacher must first have an idea of what it is that they are going to teach to students. Once that is decided, the teacher must then develop a goal for the skill which he/she will be teaching to know exactly what it is that they want students to gain from the lesson, unit or course. Next the teacher must consider whom it is that they will be teaching. One might think “oh that’s easy, the students…duh”, but it is not that simple. When considering whom you will be teaching, one must first think of what type of learners they possess in their classroom (i.e. kinesthetic/tactile, auditory and visual learners) and one must have identified who their enrichment and remedial students are in the classroom. The teacher must then identify and pinpoint exactly how they will teach that skill to their students. He/she must consider characteristics such as what materials will I use, will I have enough materials for the students to work individually or do they have to be grouped and so forth. The next question that should arise when planning is how will I manage the learning environment. The teacher will