Monday, 5 May 2014

Still on Lesson 1 : Lesson Plan Book


This was taken from one of the trainees's book . Anything wrong with the picture ? The lesson was planned, the skills were written , everything's ok , right ? WRONG !!!

Please bear in mind that a trainee is a trainee and that a trainee's lesson plan has to be PRECISE and in DETAIL . As we can see in the photo above , there are empty columns that need to be filled and the lesson plan is only one and a quarter page !!

Being a teacher who has taught for more than 20 years , I approached and told the trainee that i suspected that the plan was done in school a few hours before the lesson . The trainee said "yes" .  How did I know ?
IT WAS VERY BRIEF...the activities were short and the teaching materials used were only worksheets. These are dead giveaways . A lesson plan has to be planned a day before so that we can think and plan comfortably compared to planning a few hours before going into class .

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Teaching Practicum : Lesson 1 : The Lesson Plan book

Here is a sample of a lesson plan or Rancangan Pengajaran Harian . For teachers , this book is VERY priceless . Why ? This book is also known as the " Teaching License" . The real teaching license was a small book that was given to all teachers and had to be renewed once a year . However , it was abolished somewhere in the early 90s and replaced with the lesson plan book .
This book is very popular that whoever comes to visit us in schools , will automatically ask for this book . Be sure that this book is up-to-date ( your biodata , teaching hours , lesson plan of the day , your pupils' names and marks etc ) . Let it be known that a teacher without an up-to-date lesson plan is committing an offense and action will be taken against them .
Never leave it at home so that you'll be able to show it to whomever asking for it .
Never lose it , tear it , misplace it or let your pet EAT IT ....
It is also important because this is where your marks ( for your prestasi tahunan ) come from .

Knowing the worth of this book , should you decorate it with these kind of 'decorations' ?

So ,

1. Plan your work BEFORE HAND on a piece of paper or the computer .
2. COPY it out into the book in your NEATEST handwriting .
3. If you made a mistake , use correction fluid .
4. If too much mistakes made , paste / rip the pages neatly and carefully so as not to leave any marks / tear
    visible to the eye .
5. If you really need to cancel off a sentence or two , make sure you use only 1 cancellation line in
   different colour and not 2/3 lines and most importantly, use a RULER !!

 Another thing... please choose your WORDS before writing them in your book because it reflects you . In the example above , I circled the words "wasting time" because it gave the impression that the teacher was a lazy teacher who's always looking for ways to drag the lesson instead of teaching it . A teacher should not  "waste time" in the class room .