Planning for Learning means considering desired learning goals as a starting point for course and lesson planning (Barrie, n.d.). 

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In this section I will present how I developed my planing  and the positive results that I will undoubtedly use in my teaching career. 
 

During my teaching practice, I planned with my MST to teach 60% and in the last two weeks I did the weekly plan by my own self and I taught the students 100%. Planning with my teacher helped me to develop my lesson plan, learn the structure of the weekly lesson plan, how to create the activities to fit students’ levels and needs and how to involve the students in the learning process. 

 

Planning for learning was helped me to identify students’ needs and this by providing appropriate activities. It also helped me to focus more on the basic knowledge first then take the students towards the next step. It made me more confident because I planned for the different academic learners in the class, linking the outcomes to the theme and different subjects, hands-on materials, and assessment.  This made me aware of what I intended on teaching the students and ultimately, helped my time management. An area that applies to all aspects of my professional, and personal, life.

 

Every day I prepared all the materials and provided different sources that students may need for the following day. I created a lot of hand-on activities which helped the students to develop their different skills at the same time as being engaged intheir learning, and exploring the world around them.  According to Piaget, learning by doing helps students to learn better and develop their different domains (McLeod, 2015). As well, I used different methods to support different learning styles and multiple intelligence. For example, using music, videos, power point, peers activities, read the stories, write the sight words. "challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way” (Gardner, 1991). So, each student has a different style to learn and the teacher’s role is support all styles in the classroom and provide appropriate and variety of activities. And finally I linked between the theme and the outcomes by creating different activities and this one of my  professional development plan goals. 

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References

Barrie, D. (n.d.). Planning for learning. Retrieved from georgian college: https://www.georgiancollege.ca/ctlae/teaching-and-learning/planning-for-learning/

McLeod, S. (2015). Jean Piaget. Retrieved from simply psychology: https://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html

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These two plans are shows the difference between the old lesson plan that I did it by my self for one day only and the new one which is weekly plan.

I have included a sample daily lesson plan and a sample weekly plan.  In my final semester, I progressed to developing my ability to complete weekly plans.  The weekly plans were very difficult at first because I had to think about everything for the whole week.  However, as I continued to work with my MST, and have positive experiences in the classroom, I learned that these plans were my key to success and ease during my week. 

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