Lesson planning is a significant element of teaching-learning system. A lesson plan is a step-by-step guide that provides a structure for an essential learning. Before planning a lesson, it is essential to classify the learning outcomes for the class. It is important because it helps the teacher in maintaining a standard teaching pattern and does not let the class deviate from the topic. Pre-planning helps the teacher to be better equipped in answering questions asked by the students during the lecture.

1. Importance of Lesson Plan for Effective Teaching
Kh. Sabera Hamid
Assistant Teacher, Sunny Hills School, Dhaka
Introduction:
Lesson planning is a significant element of teaching-learning system. A lesson plan is a step-by-
step guide that provides a structure for an essential learning. Before planning a lesson, it is
essential to classify the learning outcomes for the class. It is important because it helps the
teacher in maintaining a standard teaching pattern and does not let the class deviate from the
topic. Pre-planning helps the teacher to be better equipped in answering questions asked by
the students during the lecture.
What is a Lesson Plan?
Lesson means any topic to be learned and plan means a strategy to perform an action. So,
lesson plan means a strategy to teach a lesson. A lesson plan is an outline of a particular lesson
which the teachers prepare before taking the lesson.

2. A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction for an individual
lesson or a teacher's document used to plan a lesson. A lesson plan is a written statement or
outline by a teacher that fulfills the following stages of a lesson:
 What will be taught in how much time?
 To whom it will be taught?
 How it will be taught?
 With what it will be taught?
 How to make assessment whether the objectives are achieved?
Components of a Lesson Plan:
A lesson plan has following components:
 Identification,
 Aims,
 Objectives,
 Possible Problems,
 Teaching aids,
 Preparation,
 Presentation,
 Practice,
 Evaluation,
 Homework,
 Departure
Main Features to be Considered in Planning a Lesson:
Lesson plan helps the teachers to understand the needs of students, design meaningful
activities that will address those needs, and assess student progress to ensure learning. While
planning a lesson teachers should be careful about so many things. The main features of a good
lesson plan are:

3.  The lesson's objectives must be clearly defined
 Lesson planning should be in a written form.
 Lesson plan should be faultless.
 It should link the previous lesson.
 It is important to set clear goals and objectives.
 While making lesson plan teachers should be careful about the ability, interest and the
age of students.
 Subject, time, class, number of the students should be mentioned in the lesson plan.
 Lesson plan should be flexible so that if teachers want he/she can chance it.
 It should have a clear indication about the teaching aids and their uses.
 In lesson planning, the time for each topic should appropriately be pre-determined.
 In lesson planning, the techniques and supportive materials of education like charts,
maps and other audio-visual materials and its utilization should be written.
 It should include proper indication about the evaluation of the lesson.
 It should include home works and assignments.
Importance of Lesson Plan:
Every teacher is required to prepare a lesson plan because this is considered as guide for the
day’s lessons. Lesson planning is important because it gives the teacher a concrete direction of
what she/he wants to take up for the day. Research has shown that student learning is
correlated to teacher planning. One major explanation is that when plan is ready, teachers can
focus on its implementation. Lesson planning is a significant element of teaching-learning
system. A lesson plan is a step-by-step guide 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 deviate from the topic.
Lesson planning is essential because:
1. A lesson plan is a concise and organized structure which provides answers to important
questions about how a teacher can maintain a standard pattern of teaching.

4. 2. Planning gives the teacher greater assurance and greater freedom in teaching. The teacher,
who has planned his lesson wisely, enters the class-room without anxiety, ready to embark
with confidence upon a job he understands and prepared to carry it to a workman like
conclusion.
3. It develops self confidence in the teacher.
4. Lesson planning provides a step-by-step guide to teachers to delve deep into what he/she is
teaching, how the teaching should progress, and the contents of the lecture.
5. It stimulates the teacher to introduce pivotal questions and illustrations.
6. It is a record of what has been taught.
7. It helps the teacher to manage the class effectively.
8. It helps a teacher to apply proper methods and techniques.
9. It helps the teacher to use the proper teaching aids.
10. A lesson plan unveils the basic objectives of the course so that students can go back home
with a thorough understanding of what was taught in class.
11. It helps in creating the interest of students towards the lesson.
12. Lesson plan helps teachers to finish his/her class in time.
13. A substitute teacher, banking on a lesson plan will be able to take the position of a class
teacher in a much shorter time. The assisting teacher will have all the details of what was
taught and the topics that need to be covered.
14. It helps the teacher in evaluating his/her teaching.
15. It stimulates the teacher to think in an organized manner.
Conclusion:
To be effective, the lesson plan does not have to be an exhaustive document that describes
each and every possible classroom scenario. Nor does it have to anticipate each and every
student’s response or question. Instead, it should provide you with a general outline of your
teaching goals, learning objectives, and means to accomplish them. It is a reminder of what you
want to do and how you want to do it. A productive lesson is not one in which everything goes
exactly as planned, but one in which both students and instructor learn from each other.