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E-LESSON PLANS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: TIME FOR IT OR NOT?

 Personally, to be honest, lesson planning is one very tedious part of my job as a teacher, many teachers won't say anything about this but trust me, I am sure that this feeling represents the feeling of the majority of teachers. Most of us have just come to accept and cope with it as a very pertinent part of our jobs that we can't do without.

I am not sure which part is the most tedious, I think for me, I don't like the idea of writing pages and pages of handwritten material, and because I am very expressive it also reflects in my lesson plan, so you can imagine how much work my hands have to do.

Robotics programme at Emmanuel Anglican Primary School 1 Italupe, Ijebu-ode

The most annoying part for me is the areas where you repeat every single week, most of the time, lesson plans have a template that is a guide for everyone in an organization to follow, now these parts have to show up in your lesson plan every week. Imagine rewriting this every week instead of just copying and pasting it and moving on to items that need your creativity and time.

The idea of handwriting the lesson plan every week limits my creativity, imagine the real diagrams I could input, the color I could achieve, and the limitless amount of references I could cite because my hands would not be too tired to put them down every single week.

To think of storing up your handwritten lesson plans for future reference is one crazy thing. Soon enough it just becomes a pile of dusty old books/papers which you just want to shift to someplace else but imagine how much documentation we could do with online/cloud storage where we just save them up by dates/ weeks and we can always come back to them without thinking they are occupying serious physical space.

I already know that the E-LESSON plan is not something that is about to get implemented anytime soon due to the fact that a lot of public school teachers don't have an idea of how to navigate Android devices (I try to help in many cases) so asking them to provide E-weekly plans would be met with a lot of resistance.

Notwithstanding, it would indeed be a beautiful time when we are able to submit electronic copies of our lesson plan to our Head Teachers and get feedback on the go.

 

 

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