This is what I original thought was teacher planning:
“I would
start off with re-familiarizing myself with the text. (Dr. Kajder has often
times mentioned that she believes in doing the work with the students and I
agree.) The next thing I would do is ask myself what I expect the student to
gain from the text. From there, I would formulate questions that would
(hopefully) stimulate a discussion with the students and gett them to formulate
ideas based on the text.”
My idea of what lesson planning is rather vague and not all
that well thought out. Then again, I am taking LLED 7408 for a reason: to learn
how to plan.
I watched all but maybe one or two of the videos on Flipgrid
and there are a few things that opened my eyes to planning. Let’s start off
with the things that I found similar to my novice idea of teacher planning,
since there aren’t too many.
I did notice a few people who said they start from the end
and work their way back, such as Rachel and Seth. Also, Seth seems to work in a
much smaller scale, working week to week as he goes. He said he spends about
three hours every Sunday working out his week’s plan, which is what I thought
planning was.
Now, there are many things that I did not put into
consideration for planning. I wasn’t thinking about long term planning. I only
thought about lesson-to-lesson planning, which is only a scratch on the surface
of planning. Mary, the social studies teacher, plans out everything. She puts
into consideration snow days, absences, and course work that may take longer
than others. She’s very detailed where as someone like Lisa is more “fluid” in
her planning. I also did not put into consideration the template or device I
would use for my lesson planning. Most of the teachers seem to only use one template,
which is probably what I would think to do. However, Frank brings up the idea
of using different platforms for his planning. He uses a template for his broad
lesson planning and then blackboard for his more detailed planning.
Overall, I think the one thing that shocked me the most from
listening to all of the teachers came from Lisa who said teacher planning
doesn’t get any easier.
