As someone who has never taught, I definitely qualify as a "beginner".
What concerns me most about lesson planning is that almost everything is unknown. I don't know how long things take in practice. I don't really know how long the various parts of the lesson are going to take from intro to organising to producing work. This isn't surprising of course because I have no real practical experience and I feel that this is the sort of thing that only real world experience can make you confident in predicting.
Lesson plans are described by Simmons and Hawking (2009) as a planning tool and I am sure they are betting that nothing (they are really the only planning tool we have) however it is hard to have confidence in the plan when it is based on so many unknowns.
I also feel that Simmons and Hawkings make a good point in that the Lesson plan is only a plan and not a script. When I have my first class I hope I dont become too relieant on the plan while the lesson is progressing. Perhaps for my first few classes I will produce a detailed plan and then a summary and only take the summary into the lesson.
Simmons, C., & Hawkins, C. (2009). Planning to teach an ICT lesson. In
Teaching ICT(pp.54-105). London ; Sage Publications Ltd.
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