This document discusses the importance of lesson planning for teachers. It argues that lesson planning is important for teachers of all experience levels for several reasons: 1) It helps ensure classroom instruction is aligned with curriculum goals and objectives. 2) It provides a framework that shapes student learning in a positive way. 3) It serves as a checklist and guide for teachers to stay organized and know what to do next. Even experienced teachers benefit from lesson planning to stay effective. Not having a lesson plan can lead to overreliance on textbooks, less smooth delivery, and difficulty for substitute teachers. Overall, the document advocates that lesson planning is valuable for all teachers throughout their careers.

1. IMPORTANCE OF LESSON
PLAN
(Why have a Lesson Plan after
decades of teaching
experience)
Albert Komla Pongo
Ghana National College – Cape Coast

2. IS LESSON PLAN STILL IMPORTANT
(Having practice effective teaching for over a decade)
Yes!
Lesson plan is important throughout the service of a teacher.
Every class or generation of students offer different
experience to the teacher.
Lesson plan is important for
• A newly trained teacher who could be faced with varied
unpredictable situation.
• Teachers and persons who are participating in some kind of
training program especially that much includes observation.
• Teachers who want to reduce over reliance on textbooks and
to adapt situations.

3. WHAT IS A LESSON PLAN
A lesson plan is a guide which helps execute a mission
that is to be accomplished in the classroom with the
children.
A lesson plan can also be defined as a creative process
which provides a frame work for purposeful learning

4. WHY IS LESSON PLAN
IMPORTANT
• Lesson plan comfortably alligns classroom instruction with
curriculum goals and objectives.
• Lesson plan shapes how and what students. This helps influence
positive attitudes of students towards learning . Learning does not
create cumbersome and clumsy atmosphere.
• Lesson plan serves as a checklist that guides teachers to be
systematic in the delivery of their lessons. Teachers know what to do
next at every point of delivery. Lesson are orderly presented.
• Lesson plan serves as a historical document of what the teacher did
in class. The teacher is able to look back, reorganize and update his
lesson future usage. The teacher is able to arrest challenges during
the lesson and interventions that are applied are well noted. This
becomes a guide to the teacher and others who find themselves in
like situations

5. WHY IS LESSON PLAN
IMPORTANT
• Lesson plan prevents the over reliance on text books as a
direct material for teaching some books are written in such
a way that they serve as guide to teachers. This books are
written using the syllabus as guide. Teachers are tempted to
ignore initiating their own lesson plan. These teachers
become limited since no textbook provides solution to all
the specific needs in a lesson for the teacher and students.
This shows that even in the availability of good course
material, the teacher still needs a lesson plan.
• Lesson plan is good for the experience teacher even though
he has excellent, fluent set of classroom management skills
and activity routines. With all these a minimum and 90%
classroom management. Every good lesson needs a plan

6. WHY IS LESSON PLAN
IMPORTANT
• Lesson plan gives the auxiliary teacher the details
of what he needs in a lesson. He is able to
comfortably stand in for the class teacher. A good
lesson plan minimizes the negative effect of
learning on the children when there is swapping
of teachers.
• If every good game deserves a plan to win, then
every teacher needs a good plan to be highly
successful. The best football coaches still draw
their plan for every match.

7. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A
TEACHER HAS NO LESSON
PLAN
• There is over reliance on textbooks.
• Lesson delivery is not always smooth.
• There is no smooth transition when another
teacher takes over the class.
• Course materials are underutilized.

8. REFERENCES
Sakamoto B. 2012
How important is lesson planning ITDI Bloy
Thornburg S 2012
How important is lesson planning