Professional Documents

Definition professional documents
These are the documents which are used by the teacher in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of teaching/learning process. They include schemes of work, lesson plans, records of work and progress records. They are meant to make teaching and learning more effective.

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CLASS: FORM I …………….. TERM: ………………………    YEAR ………………………
! WEEK ! TOPIC/SUB TOPIC ! OBJECTIVES ! CONTENT ! TEACHING LEARNING EXPERIENCES ! TEACHING/LEARNING RESOURCES ! REFERENCE ! REMARKS
 * 1
 * INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION
 * Meaning of Life Skills Education
 * By the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:
 * 1) explain the meaning of Life Skill Education
 * 2) identify everyday life’s challenges he/she encounters
 * 3) Relate Life Skill Education to the challenge of everyday life
 * 1) Relate Life Skill Education to the challenge of everyday life


 * Meaning of Life Skills Education
 * Challenges of everyday life
 * Life skills as they relate to challenges of everyday life
 * explaining the concepts/terms
 * 1) questioning and answering question
 * 2) discussing challenges of everyday life
 * 3) note taking
 * Charts showing definition and importance of Life Skill Education
 * 1) learners’ experiences
 * Indicate author, year of publication (editions) Title publisher, Town and page(s)
 * Learners participated actively in the learning process
 * objectives achieved
 * 2
 * INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION
 * Benefits of Life Skills Education
 * Benefits of Life Skills Education

Learners’ experiences
 * By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to demonstrate clear understanding of the benefits of learning Life Skills Education
 * Benefits of Life Skills Education| row 2, cell 5
 * explaining the terms
 * 1) brainstorming on the benefits of Life Skills Education
 * 2) note taking
 * 3) sharing of learners’ experiences
 * Charts showing benefits of Life Skills Education
 * 1) Learners’ experiences
 * 2) Charts showing benefits of Life Skills Education
 * Indicate author year of publication (editions) Title publisher, Town and page(s
 * An adhoc staff meeting interrupted the lesson. To be taught during prep time.
 * 3
 * INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION
 * Core-living values
 * By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
 * 1) identify the core living values
 * 2) demonstrate a clear understanding of the relationship between living values and life skills
 * Core-living values
 * 1) Relationship between living values and life skills|questioning and answering
 * explaining the term
 * role playing the living values
 * Chart showing the meaning of living values
 * 1) The living values
 * 1) The living values


 * Indicate author year of publication (editions) Title publisher, Town and page(s)
 * Lesson was interesting objectives were achieved.


 * }

{{definition|LESSON PLAN It is a detailed account of what is to be covered in a lesson. It is extracted from the scheme of work.

Importance of Lesson Planning
A lesson plan is necessary in the effective teaching of Life Skills Education because it helps the teacher to:
 * focus clearly on the content to be covered and the way it should be taught thus avoiding vagueness and irrelevance
 * organise the content to be taught in advance
 * plan, prepare and assemble teaching/learning resources
 * take the opportunity to visualize and conceptualise in advance the teaching strategies and ethods.
 * select and design appropriate assessment methods.

Format of a lesson plan
A lesson plan should include the following components:

Administrative details Topic/Subtopic:It is derived from scheme of work
 * Date
 * Time
 * Class
 * Roll
 * Subject

Specific Objective(s): It is a statement of what is intended to be achieved by the end of the lesson. It should be stated in simple clear language and should be measurable as in the syllabus.

Learning/teaching Experiences: This column contains the approaches/methods to be used in the lesson. These include discussion, observation, brainstorming among many. Learning/teaching experiences should aim at achieving the stated lesson objectives.

Learning/teaching Resources

These are the materials that will be used to enhance the learning/teaching process. They include: charts, videos and audio programmes, pictures and real objects. Teachers should improvise resources relevant that are and appropriate to the lesson.

References:

This column gives the sources of information. These include textbooks, magazines, periodicals and journals.

Remarks:

The teacher should state if the lesson was taught successfully. If there were any difficulties observed, mention them. Remedies sought should also be indicated.}}

=Introduction= An outline of the stages followed in lesson presentation

It provides for the organisation of a favourable learning atmosphere. For example, to recapitulate salient points of previous lessons relevant to the new subject matter or material. It also aims at capturing the attention of the learners. In order to maintain this attention, the teacher will need to stimulate the learners’ imagination, interest and enthusiasm.

A good Introduction involves:


 * remembering relevant facts that link the previous topics to the current one.
 * providing an overview of the topic to be covered.

Lesson Development
This is the actual teaching of the Life Skills Education content. The subject matter is divided into steps. Each step should contain one main idea or experience. It should indicate clearly what and how to be taught and the learners activities. The teacher should vary the teaching/ learning activities as the need arises.

Conclusion
This is a summary of the lesson. This can be done by either one or a combination of the following:
 * asking questions to establish whether the lesson objectives have been achieved.
 * allowing learners to seek clarification
 * summarising the main points in the lesson
 * giving follow up activity(ies) such as a reading assignment or project.

Note that a lesson plan may not have all the details of the subject content, therefore the teacher should have lesson notes.

Lesson Evaluation
This should be made immediately after the lesson when the teacher still has a fresh memory of what transpired in class. The teacher should evaluate:
 * achievement of the objectives
 * quality and depth of content
 * appropriateness of method
 * adequacy and appropriateness of the resources
 * relevance and effectiveness of tool of assessment
 * strategies for improved future instruction on the topic

Sample Lesson plan format for Life Skills Education

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SAMPLE SCHEME OF WORK
!DATE !TIME !CLASS !SUBJECT !ROLL
 * 18/7/08
 * 9.20-10.00 am
 * Form IA
 * Life Skill Education
 * 40
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