Lesson Planning. What a crucial and yet excruciating topic. For some odd reason, I feel like I have already read and/or blogged about this chapter....but oh well.
First of all, can I say, I love the quote at the beginning at the chapter. It so rings true in lesson planning and makes me think a lot about backwards design in lesson planning, where you come up with your desired results from the lesson first and then plan your lesson from there.
I think that lesson planning can be a teacher's best friend but yet worst enemy. For a (somewhat) organized person like myself, I was very drawn to the idea of having a plan for what you want to achieve in your class period or unit, what have you, but the implementation always made me very nervous due to its organized fashion--I always feel as though if I deviate from the lesson plan or something goes wrong, I'd get all flustered and lose it completely. Maybe that's just me or maybe I wasn't taught lesson planning in a good way. I know that it gets more natural the longer you do it, but yeah, lesson planning isn't my favorite topic because it's so individualized and dependent upon your setting and many other factors.
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