Why The Best Teachers Don't Follow the Lesson Plan
The lesson plan is a map. Teaching is navigation. Every lesson begins with a plan Every experienced teacher prepares. Topics are selected. Exercises are ready. Grammar has been planned. Examples have been chosen. Good preparation matters. But something even more important happens five minutes after the lesson begins. The student starts thinking. And real thinking almost never follows a perfect script. A lesson plan is not the lesson Many people imagine that professional teaching means following a detailed plan from beginning to end. In reality, the opposite is often true. A student asks an unexpected question. A misunderstanding reveals a deeper problem. One explanation suddenly opens an entirely new discussion. Sometimes twenty planned exercises become unnecessary because one conversation solves the problem more effectively than all of them together. The lesson has changed. And that is exactly what should happen. Good teachers teach people—not schedules There is a...