Scheme of Work and Lesson Plan: A Practical Guide for Teachers
Writing Lesson Plans that Decode the Scheme of Work:
A Scheme of Work and a Lesson Plan are two important foundations on which units of instruction and lesson notes are built. Every teacher should be able to prepare and use them effectively before completing a detailed lesson note.
The Scheme of Work provides the overall direction for teaching during a term, while the Lesson Plan breaks each topic into clear teaching and learning activities for a particular lesson. Understanding the relationship between the two helps teachers organise their lessons, manage available time and deliver the required topics systematically.
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Scheme of Work and Lesson Plan: Understanding the Connection
A good Scheme of Work helps the teacher know what to teach and when to teach it, while a well-prepared Lesson Plan explains how the lesson will be taught. Together, they provide a practical framework for organising classroom instruction and developing effective lesson notes.
This page explains the purpose of a Scheme of Work and a Lesson Plan, how they relate to each other, and how teachers can use them to prepare lessons more effectively.
A lesson plan plays a vital role in teaching-learning processes. It represents a stage when the scheme of work is interpreted into unit of instructions for periods of thirty, forty or forty-five minutes depending on the subject or school. In turn when a lesson plan is transcribed into a notebook, it becomes a lesson note (PDE 704 P27).
Features of a Good Lesson Plan
The topic to be taught must be stated clearly.
A lesson plan must contain precise performance objectives.
It should neither be too scanty nor lengthy.
Importance of a Good Lesson Plan
It helps in logical presentation of the lesson.
It helps to prepare important facts about the lesson well ahead of time.
A lesson plan provides clear objectives and makes the teaching process goal-oriented.
Our lesson plans are carefully developed from the new curriculum for secondary education. The lesson plans cover various subjects including Agricultural Science, Animal Husbandry, Biology, Chemistry, Civic Education, Commerce, Computer Science, Computer Studies, Data Processing, Economics, English Language, Further Mathematics, Government, Mathematics, Physics, Technical Drawing, etc.
Each subject covers three classes: SS One, SS Two and SS Three. In turn, each class is sub-divided into first term, second term and third term.
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