The writing of Lesson Plans helps the teacher in a variety of ways. It helps to clarify the ideas, in fact the whole lesson. It ensures a definite objective for the day’s work and a clear visualization of that objective.
In other words, it defines the limits within which the teacher is to work, thereby saving his time and labour which might go waste without planning.
It helps the teacher to select and organize the material he wants to present to the class. It ensures definite association and link between two units and between the various lessons. It helps the teacher to think about the various activities to be done by the students. It bids the teacher to be systematic and orderly. That prevents wastage of time and labour.
Again, it helps the teacher to devise the desirable teaching procedures and prepare evaluation material to judge whether the desired objectives are being achieved. It stimulates the teacher to think of related material, illustrations, black-board work and other aids.
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Writing of Lesson Plans gives the teachers added confidence and assurance. He can face the class with greater freedom and self- confidence. He will be the real master of the situation and can manipulate the environment at ease.
The teacher who prepares Lesson Notes in advance “enters the class-room without anxiety, ready to embark with confidence upon job he understands, and prepared to carry it to workman-like conclusion.
He has foreseen the difficulties that are likely to arise and prepares him to deal with them. He knows the aims of his lesson and is intended to fulfill them and he has marshalled his own resources for the purpose.”