What Is a Lesson Plan?

A lesson plan is a detail guide for teaching a particular lesson. It tells a teacher which activity to be done from the beginning to the end. The lesson plan must include some of the following components:

• A goal -- A teacher must determine what she wants her students to learn after the lesson being taught. For example, at the end of the lesson, she wants her students to know 'Present Simple'.

• Techniques -- They are the procedures (series of steps or actions) or guidelines for any (teaching) activity. For example, with the goal of teaching 'Present Simple', the teacher may use a varieties techniques to get her students involved. She may start from Meaning to Form, Gap Filling, Drill, and Sentence Building.

• Data -- They are the items or contents to be used in a lesson. For example, the teacher may need a lesson from the course book, an exercise in workbook, a list of questions for personalizing 'Present Simple', and so on.

• Responses -- They are the ways the teacher wants her student to involved in each activity of the lesson. She may wants the students to answer the questions, read the texts, do the exercise, or write some sentences.