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In brief, the structure of a lesson plan should look as follows:

Table 10.7 Structure of a lesson Plan
Stage Time Required Activities involved Audio-visual Aids
:
i. Pre-teaching 20 minutes 1. question-answer flash cards
2. reading by learners black board
ii. Teaching 25 minutes 1. reading by teacher textbook, slides
iii. Post-teaching 5 minutes 1. summing up through cue cards
question-answers

Please remember that this is a rough outline and you can individuate it as
you like it; but it does help preparing a lesson plan in this fashion. During
your B.Ed. training, you must have undertaken assignments during which
you wrote out each and every individual question-answer. Once you are
good at it, you need not go to such lengths. However much your experience
be, it is necessary, nevertheless, to structure your lecture in advance.
It is a good practice, moreover, to maintain a diary in which you evaluate
yourself against every detail. Such a process helps you find at your lacunae,
work on them, and improve your performance as a teacher.
Such diary entries are often written out as bullet points as elucidated in
Table 10.8:

Table 10.8 Planning a Diary Entry
Date: pre-teaching time was not sufficient.
Time: students did not get the hang of the idea.
Topic: questions appeared superfluous to them; they took
too much time re-arranging themselves into groups.

Preparing Teacher’s Handbooks/Students’ Workbooks

The contemporary models of teaching believe that a textbook, often prepared
by a board that may not have the requisite academic leaning/qualifications/
interests, may not be sufficient as a teaching/learning aid. Hence, often
teacher’s handbooks and students’ workbooks are prepared as additional
teaching/learning aids. The proliferation of ‘special purpose’ courses further
necessitates such a move.
The Teacher’s Handbook gives tips to the teacher for effective teaching.
When you are scripting such a teacher’s handbook, see to it that it is self-
sufficient. A teacher without any further training (which is welcome, if
possible) should manage to use this extra resource.

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