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TP 7

PLANNING AND PREPARATION

FOR LEARNING
Focus: The importance of planning and preparation
Objective
The objective of this task is for student teachers to begin to understand
the relevance of planning and preparation as well as gain insight into
how teachers do this.

Task
Before:

Discuss the task with the teacher and arrange a good time to observe her
teaching a lesson. (this could be for as little as 15 minutes)

During:
Record and make notes on what the teacher and the learners are doing.

Make a table like this one, and you will focus on both what the teacher is doing
during the lesson AND what the learners (students) PARTICIPATORY LEARNING are
doing.
Example :

Lesson Type:

How to

What are the learning

activities? (What do the
students do?)

Time
spent

Teacher arranges learners into

groups to work on an activity/
task. She gives the instructions
and gives a quick demonstration of
how to do it.

Learners listen to the teacher, get

into groups and watch the
demonstration

4 mins

Teacher starts the activity/task

and walks around the room and
helps those who need it.

Learners start the activity, and talk

together to finish it. Some students
raise their hand to ask for help.

Teacher activity

Lesson Type:
Teacher activity

10 mins

How to full human / (mark making)

W h a t a r e t h e l e a r n i n g Time
activities? (What do the spent
students do?)

First the teacher arrange them to

two groups she gives them
instruction and quick
demonstration how to draw .

The students listen to the teacher,

get into groups and watch the
demonstration .

She passes the papers and markers

for the students and ask them to
start drawing .Then she asked each
one to show her how did they
draw .

Learners start the activity , they

drew and show their teacher what
they did .

5 mins

15 mins

Also observe the lesson and identify the BOPPPS from the
model we discussed in class.
Part of the Lesson

What your teacher did

Bridge In

She asked the students who have bed in

his room ,and if they can carry their bed .

Outcome (Learning Objective)

She said today we will learn what is the

different between the heavy and light
things .

Pre Assessment

She asked them who know what is the

different between heavy and light objects .

Participatory Learning

She brought the dolls bed and sponge ,

then she asked them which one is heavy
and which one is light , after that she told
them what is the different between heavy
and light objects .Then she gave every one
his chance to compare between them by
caring each them and asked them what
they think if it is heavy or light .

Post Assessment

She asked them if they can give another

example of heavy and light .

Summary

She gave them summary about their

lesson, that we can carry light object but
we cant carry heavy one .

Find out how the teacher planned and prepared for the lesson you
observed.
She have her plan for every week , and in this week she choose Wednesday
to do water play , because they don't have lesson at the library and if they
carry a book fortunately they will cause a problem ,because their clothes
are a little bet wet .She prepared two list of two group in depend in their
age , so the young kids who are from 2 to 3 years will do water play
first ,then the group of age 3 to 4years . Also she brought newspapers to
but it on the floor while the kids are playing , and she brought sponges and
pails to transfer the water from one of the pail to anther one .

Observation mini interview (general questions) related to

planning and preparation for learning.
Early in the morning OR ahead of time, you should arrange a time to discuss
the following points with your MST.
It is important that you ask these questions as they will help you with your reflection
later.

How do you plan? Do you plan weekly, daily, as part of a team or individually?

She already have a yearly plan for the curriculum , and she also plan weekly and daily for her
lessons . For example if there is an activity on the curriculum she will plan for it in the daily
plan ,but if she has a problem with her student mode in that daily plan, she can swap with the
next week plan for the same day of the week , so in the end she did what the curriculum ask her to
day and in time that her student will be able to understand the activity . And she do her plan as
part of team or individually depends of what she is going to plan for .

Do you follow a lesson plan exactly? Why or why not? She don't follow the lesson

plan exactly ,because its not possible , sometimes her students want to learn something she
didn't plan for it ,so she change her plan in what her students want .She believe in what her
teacher said the best teacher is that one who going according to the children mode not
according to the plan . The plan should be their and should be available all the time, but it
does not mean that you would be planning all the time and look to it , she will do what they
want but her involving should be their , for example if they want to learn about the flowers ,
she will go for a walk and intrudes the flower name and their colours, so she use what her
students are interesting in to teach them new vocabulary .

What do you do when the lesson does not go according to the plan?

She do what she couldn't do it in the next class , and be flexible because she teach young students
and it hard to do exactly what she planed for their lessons .

Do you ever do anything you havent planned to do? Yes ,for example she didn't prepare
for the earth day ,so when she remembered that she didn't prepared ,she went to anther
class and borrowed a torch and tent ,then she switch off the light and read a story for the
kids inside the tent .

What is important to you when planning a lesson? First of all she will looks to the

milestone of the children , where they are standing ,then the ways that she will introduce
the activities for them .

 Do you plan to do the exact same thing with all the children in the classroom?
N(Why/Why not??) No , because she have to group of children one of them are
older than the other , and their interest are different , the younger like to run and
move more than the older group so their activities must be something they will
learn and move so in the end they have fun with it .
Three other questions you ask your teacher about lesson planning that you want
to know.
1. Do you think its important for the teacher to plan before the lesson ? Yes , it
important to plan before the lesson to have objective or a reason to start or to
do the lessen with the kids .For example the purpose of giving the kids time to
play is to help them to talk with each other, because not all the kids are talking
during the lesson time , so the time for playing can help them to communicate
and talk and use the new vocabulary that they learnt .
2. Dose the planing make it easy for you as a teacher to do your work ? Yes ,
because its make it clear to the teacher what she is looking to achieve in her
students . It will make her day easier and her concepts more clear for her
students .
3. Is it hard to plan for young students ? and what are the different bet ween
planning for young students and adult students ? It will be difficult for the new
teachers to plan for kids , but if they have experience and they done it before it
become easy , because each year it will be clear to them how to start , what are
the points they have to start with ,especially the milestones side .
There is a different , for example if she will teach my class she will focuses in the
learning said ,because she knew that the growth is done the students are
walking , talking , socialising , have mode and have their personal interest , so she
will just introduce the topic , then she will look who has clearly got it . But with
young students she focus in the child holistic development , that would be the
teaching side plus according to their personal social .
Arrange to attend a planning session with the teacher/team.
When is it ? next week on Wednesday at 2 pm clock .

Reflection
Answer the following questions thoroughly, not superficially. This means to think
deeply and show that you are really thinking about the importance of
preparation and planning. Use some of the information you learned form your
MST in your reflection.

Why is planning and preparation for learning so important?

What do you have to think about before you begin to plan for learning?
What steps does a teacher go through to be prepared for teaching?
What do you know now about teaching and planning that you did not know
before?

Planning and preparation for learning is so important , because it save the

time when we start to learn something , its help to get the concept clearly in
order , so in the end we got organisable information .First I will think about
what I am going to learn , if its exam or project or just lesson review ,
because each one of them will have different way to plan , for example If I
am going to plan for project , I will think of what is the topic of the
project ,then I will think of the materials , and who will bring each one of
them , and when we will start and when we will finish . However if I am going
to plan for to study for the exam , first I will thank which subject I will start
with , then divide my time for each chapter , than I will test my self if I
understand what I learnt or not . So it important to know what are we going
to plan before we start planning .First she will look what she should teach
her students according to the School curriculum , then she will look to their
students milestones to know what is the best way to introduce her lesson ,
then she will prepare the activities and the worksheets for the participatory
part on the lesson to involve her student , so in the end they understand the
concept of the lesson .I surprised when my MST told me that she look first to
her students milestone before she prepared for lesson , because that help
them to understand the lesson evidently .That surprise me ,because I thought
that the teachers look just for what the school curriculum ask them to do ,
and when I knew that I felt more comfortable ,because I was afraid how I
will have the students attention and how I will start the lesson with them , but
what I found it and knew it now that the child milestones will help me a lot in
introduce the lesson ,deal and have the students attention .