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Unit 3: Management at Different Levels-Elementary, Secondary, Higher Education

Need and Importance of Lesson Plan Notes
The lesson plan has significant role in planning and organizing instructional procedure with the
following reasons :
1. In teacher-education programme, the lesson planning provides the guideline to pupil-teachers
during their teaching practices.
2. It provides awareness of teaching objectives and structure of content and teacher has to perform
his activities in the direction to achieve the objectives.
3. The sequence of content is to be planned and finalized by content-analysis in lesson-planning.
4. The apperceptive mass of the learner is developed or encouraged by linking the new knowledge
with the previous knowledge of the students.
5. The use of teaching aids, techniques, methods and maxims are predetermined for the presentation
of the content.
6. The teaching activities are related to learning structures with the help of scientific lesson plan.
7. It maintains the sequence of content presentation and prevents the teacher to deviate from the
topic.
8. It determines the suitable places of reinforcing and controlling the students behaviour during
teaching.
9. The classroom teaching activities are organised by considering the students individual
differences.
10. The effectiveness of a teacher depends on a good lesson plan. It develops the reasoning, decision
making ability and imagination and pupil teachers.
11. The micro-lessons are helpful in developing specific teaching skills.

12. The pupil-teacher gains confidence in performing the classroom teaching activities for
presentation and demonstration.
Principles of Lesson Plan
The lesson planning is an instructional procedure designed and prepared by pupil-teachers and in-
service teachers before the classroom teaching. It is also known as pre-active stage of teaching or
planning of teaching. The lesson planning involves several types principles, because teaching is an
art as well as science. The principles of lesson planning can be broadly classified into the following
categories.
(a) Philosophical principles or propositions.
(b) Psychological principles and concepts,

(c) Sociological principles or norms.
(d) Pedagogical principles and
(e) Principles of technology of teaching.
Approaches of Lesson Planning
There are various approaches for designing the lesson planning. The important approaches have
been discussed here.
(1) The Herbert Approach : The Herbartian Approach is based on apperceptive mass theory of
learning. The proposition of that theory is that the learner is like a clean state and all the
knowledge is given from outside. If new knowledge is imparted by linking with old
knowledge of the student, it may be acquired easily and retained for a longer period. The
teaching content should be presented into units and these units should arranged in a logical
sequence. Herbart has given five steps : Introduction, presentation, organization, comparison

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