Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The Plan
This experience has been an informative one in that it speaks directly to our practice. Admittedly, it has been awhile since I have actually practiced writing such an in-depth, detailed and (yes at times an even stressful) plan for a lesson. I know the importance of planning though, so I try to work with an abridged version of lesson planning or something that resembles it.
Oddly enough it reminds me of a book I read ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’ by V.S.Naipaul. The basic premise of the novel is this man spends his entire life trying to have a house for himself.
Alright follow me here, he made some:
shoddy plans.
didn’t do any research into where he was going to live
didn’t exactly know how he was going to achieve this goal
didn’t foresee some of the possible problems he might have
and really the list goes on. The funny thing is when he finally got a house, it still stressed him, he wasn’t exactly happy about it and the house very much resembled the character himself.
Again maybe I’m being a little liberal with the novel (okay plenty liberal) because there were many extenuating factors that just made the task even more difficult and the novel quite entertaining. The point is as much as he complained about this house that he wanted, he got all that he put into it and unfortunately some extra.
I know “food for thought” so happy planning!
Feel free to add the book to your “to read” list, it is very enlightening.
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lol. Ambika, I would not have compared these two, having read the book several times, but you are right about this; in life what you get out of something is comparable to what you put into it.
ReplyDeleteLikewise with these many technologies we are now learning, what we put into a lesson plan is what we will get out of it. Preparation is the key. We need to do dry runs of all our lessons to ensure we are not embarrassed during the execution in front of the class.
Always ensure that computers and multi-media projectors are working. Search all the websites you intend to use, to ensure that that the addresses are saved and easily available as well as checking that there is no undesirable content on the site. I guess these lesson plans will certainly sensitise us to these possibilities.