Lesson Planning

Lesson planning is an important part of teaching. Laying out a set out path or plan is a must to be able to keep up. While lesson planning I believe that there should be different levels of planning a yearly, weekly, and daily plan. I liked the quote by Baily (19960 " a lesson plan is like a road map which describes where the teacher hopes to go in a lesson, presumably taking the students along". A key word in that quote is "hopes" not every lesson will go as planned and it needs to be recognized by the teacher when it is not working and they need to derive the plan. This is not alway apparent to the teaching when something doesn't work out how they would like. Student feedback could be very benificial to find out if the lesson has worked or not worked.