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Lesson planning is a significant element of teaching and learning. It is a priority of teachers. A lesson plan is a teacher's specific piece of information of the course of instruction and direction for a lesson. A daily lesson plan is developed by a teacher to guide class learning. A lesson plan is a step-by-stepguide that provides a structure for an essential learning. It is important because it helps the teacher in maintaining a standard teaching pattern and does not let the class change from the topic. It creates an appropriate learning environment. Every teacher needs a good lesson plan to be highly successful. Lesson planning is important because it helps teachers ensure that the day-to-day activities that go on in their classroos are providing students with an ample level of long term progress toward the goal outlined in their scope as well as their individual education plans when necessary. Lesson plans could also become tools for mentoring and coaching teachers. It reflects the teachers ability, expertise and skill in terms of presenting a lesson. There is a variety of learning procedures that teachers can utilize. Lesson plan is important for a newly trained teacher who could be faced with varied unpredictable situations. Lesson plan is important for teachfers who want to reduce over dependence on textbooks and to adapt situations. A good lesson plan minimizes the negative effectof learning on the children when there is substitution of teachers. Lesson planning brings confidence in the work of teachers. If teachers are planning to teach well to their students even in their absence it is very important to plan a lesson in advance. While a particular teacher is not present on a particular day to attend a class, ateacher's substitute can use a lesson plan to teach a class in a same manner, so the continuity of a lesson can be maintained. And it does not wastes the time of students. Because if there is no lesson plan how would a substitute teacher know what to teach and how to teach. Therefore a lesson plan should always be present before any class starts. Teaching will be carried to planned target completely through lesson plan. Lesson plan is vital in order to set goals effectively for the learning process also to cover the content, to teach the values to students to have better understanding about the meaning, significance, basic steps of preparation and planning principles of teaching as well as the characteristics of a good lesson. A lesson plan is guide and map for organizing materials and for the purpose of helping students to achieve the necessary learning outcomes. An effective learning environment is one that had been carefully planned. Learning is made possible if the learners are taught the most appropriate instructions and the appropriate level,which requires a pre-planned lesson plan. A lesson plan tells us what should happen throughout the lesson in a series of stages. It is also an historical document it can therefore be used to show what the students have covered and when they covered it. The most important features of lesson plan are objectives, content, methods and evaluation. The actual components needed on the plan would be date and time of lesson, the room, the expected no.of students, the context of the lesson anticipated problem for the students and teacher (with solution), and an outline of the procedure of the lesson along with timings that can be required to carry out particular topic, in a particular phase. To carry out a teaching process some materials are required which includes worksheets, communicative activity sheets, pictures, flash cards, drawing, charts and other visual aids. Tapes, recordings, real objects, comics, magazines, T.V. clips, videos etc. All of these materials should be included in lesson plan. The quality of thelesson plans will in great part determine how efficiently class time is used and how much content the students learn each period. The main thing is to make sure they contain the main elements of the lesson. They're meant to guide your instruction so you can maximize classroom time. Above all lesson plan is an essence of teaching and learning.
