Just wondering?????

[Progress]

How are you good people?It sure has been long time...........

Have you realised how hard working student-teachers are?You will find them busy preparing session plans,teaching resources and everything they learn in class.

A thought crossed my mind after such an observation,why do they put themselves through the hassle of preparing session plans?I mean after all,veterans no longer do it,why should we expect our student-teachers to do it?

What is the importance of doing session plans while we know in practice it is not really done? :confused:

[mopar]

When you are new to teaching it is important to prepare lesson plans. If only to help to organize yourself and make sure that you cover all the important parts of the lesson. You must think out your anticipatory set, the procedure, the closing activity. It is even important to think out the questions you will ask to make sure that you hit higher order thinking questions. Until this becomes second nature to you, it is important to write out the plan. Unless of course you teach strictly from a textbook.

[Chef Dave]

What is the importance of doing session plans while we know in practice it is not really done? :confused:

What is a session plan?

Is this an overview of what student teachers will be teaching during a given period?

If so, teachers do something similar but we call it curriculum.

In terms of how hard student teachers work - get used to it. As hard as student teachers work, most classroom teachers work harder.

I myself typically put in a 60 hour week ... and as a chef instructor, my job is easier than those of my high school colleagues who teach core academic subjects.

Although I have food inventories to conduct and food orders to generate, recipes to test out, and daily gross revenue reports to make ... I don't have lots of papers to grade since most of my grades are product oriented. My day begins at 5 AM but typically finishes no later than 5 PM ... and when I go home, I generally don't have to take any work with me.

When I was an elementary teacher, I had lesson plans to write, papers to grade, parents to conferernce with, mid-6 week progress reports to complete and report cards. I put up bulletin boards, designed and implemented learning centers, maintained IEP folders, maintained student portfolios, wrote grant proposals, and attended weekly grade level and faculty meetings. I had rotating bus duty, daily recess duty, and rotating lunch duty. There were reports to complete on student progress for our district office, new textbooks to review and evaluate since I was on the textbook committee, and students to tutor in our after school tutoring program.

Be aware that everything you are learning now and doing now will be excellent preparation for when you become a first year teacher.

[Boxcar]

I think lesson plans are important for new teachers because they can help you pinpoint problems. You think, "Oh, this is such a great activity!", but when you write it up, you see it is too advanced for your kids. So, you modify it and your good to go.

Also, having resource files can get you hired. The school knows what you plan to do, and what your viewpoint is like. It makes you look organized and all.

[science_monkey]

I'm currently student teaching right now, so I can attest to the workload. I don't mind it though, because I know that it will benefit me greatly in the future. I'll have a wide array of unit and lesson plans to work with that I've already created, and I'll only need to make modifications to them in the future. I look at them as a good resource that I'm creating to make my life a bit easier down the road.

[mopar]

Yes they are great resources for the future. Definitely save everything. Plus, if you can pull out the product during an interview or pull out the lesson plan, it looks better.

[EdenMay]

Yes, I agree totally. It makes you look organised if you can demonstrate your planning work in an interview.