A lesson plan by Paula Andrea

How important do you think a lesson plan is to a successful lesson? What features do you think a lesson plan should include?

I think is a successful lesson when we take in account the aims, skills, approaches, group´s needs and profile of each student.

Some of the information that have to be included are: aim, warm up activities, activities to follow instructions the teachers , group or interactive activities, timely, materials, some probably issues, vocabulary or topic, kind of group, level

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

The lesson plan is the guide how to develop the class, but it´s important to have extra activities or optional activities in case of the lesson plan, in certain moment, doesn´t work or the students need to reinforce some topics or idea that you could have thought it would be easy for them.

During the class could appear some issues or needs that we have to resolve in the real time. For these cases you must not be strict with the lesson plan and you have to do extra mile in order to overcome the situation.

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

I´m disagree, because lesson plan is the guide how to teach and monitor a class according with the information that you have got previously. As a teacher you can create motivating and innovating activities at the time that you are making up the lesson plan. In my opinion if you don´t have a lesson plan you don´t know how to develop a successful class.