Structure of Lesson Plan in the Philippines

A Lesson Plan is the main thing or mandatory thing for a teacher who will teach. The lesson plan contains information about learning topics, starting from basic competency and ending with assessment. Each school has a different lesson plan structure. As I experienced, each school has a different template.

 

In today's topic, I will share information about the lesson plan structure used by the Philippines and my experience when making a lesson plan in the Philippines.

 

The lesson plan makers have the same outline. Education in the Philippines has three forms of lesson plans:

1. Brief Lesson Plan

It is just like an outline of the lesson for the day and it only contains keywords.

 

2. Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan

Commonly used in ranking public school teachers. It only contains questions from the teachers. But, when it comes to activities, you have to include the instructions, and the mere game or activity.

 

3. Detailed Lesson Plan

It has two parts: the teacher's activity and the student’s activity. It anticipates what will happen that day including the answers of the students. It contains not just the questions but also the answers of the students.

When we write a lesson plan, the most important thing we have to remember is we have to write it in such a way that when someone borrows it, it is comprehensive.

 

Next are the major parts of the lesson plan.

1. Objectives

In writing objectives, you should use the SMART guidelines and must cover the three domains.

SMART includes:

-S-pecific

-M-easurable

-A-ttainable

-R-realistic

-T-time bound

Then what about the three domains, what is included with the three domains?

in three domains there are:

•Cognitive

•psychomotor

•Affective

 

2. Subject Matter

In writing subject matter has several parts such:

> Topic, in writing topics, we are required to be specific to every topic that we need to discuss.

> Reference, in writing, references must use the format (title of the book, author, date published, name of the company, page number).

> Materials, these materials are items that we use to support learning and teaching activities.

> Value integration, in this value integration, we are advised to write what values are contained in the learning.

3. Teaching Procedure

Parts of the teaching procedure include:

•Routine class

Routine class usually contains

a) Classroom management

-Prayer

-Greeting

-Classroom Management

-Checking of Attendance

b) Review of the Past Lesson

-this section usually contains questions related to the previous lesson.

 •Motivation

Motivation could be in the form of a game, an activity, or a question-answer portion and not necessarily recorded or graded. The motivation should be related to your topic for the day. It helps to catch the attention of the learners before proceeding to the main discussion.

 •Lesson Proper

The lesson proper part contains only the questions for your students for them to get the topic for that day. If you are going to add information, you have to write it. You must present the questions in sequence.

Parts of lesson proper:

a) Presentation

b) Discussion

 •Generalization

The generalization part contains questions for summing up what you have discussed. It also contains questions about what the students have learned and realized. This is the part where your students will state the values gained from the discussion.

 •Application

Your application must be a short-term activity. It could be recorded or not depending on the teacher. Application is not your quiz. It is just a way to apply what the students have just learned but must still be related to your objective and your lesson. In this part, they can apply all the information that they gained from the discussion.

 

4. Evaluation

Your evaluation is your way of assessing if your students learn or not. It could be a paper-and-pencil test or a performance-based assessment. If it is performance-based, you must provide rubrics attached to your lesson plan. Be specific and clear in writing instructions like what paper to use.

 

5. Assignment

The purpose of the assignment is either for practice or pre-learning. Bear that in mind. Don’t give more than one assignment. It must not happen that your assignment is more difficult to do than the quiz. And in the Philippines has a regulation DepEd Memo 392 s.2010 (No assignment on Fridays).

 

Experience in Writing Lesson Plans

I think the level of difficulty in completing this lesson is fairly easy because when making a lesson plan, I was given a guidebook to make a lesson plan. At that time my mentor gave me a choice of topics to teach, the choices were volleyball, basketball, and badminton. At that time, I was hesitant to choose whether basketball or badminton. In the end, I decided to choose basketball with the topic of “Basic Movements in Passing Basketball”.

 

After that, I was helped by Ma’am Rosenell (critical teacher) on what things should be in making a lesson plan (like what I have explained above).

 

Then in the evening I immediately decided to make this lesson plan. it took me a few days to make the lesson plan because after I finished making it, I had to send it to Ma’am Rosenell for review.

 

Finally, the Semi-Detailed lesson plan was completed but at that time it did not stop Ma’am Rosenell asked me to make a Detailed lesson plan which is longer than the semi-detailed lesson plan. I spent two to three (2 to 3) days to complete my detailed lesson plan. This detailed lesson plan made me know better what I was going to say when I was teaching because the detailed lesson plan contains the conversation between the teacher and students from the beginning to the end. So, during my time in the Philippines, I made two (2) lesson plans, the first one is a Semi-detailed lesson plan and the second one is a Detailed lesson plan.

 

That's all the experience that I can share with you about making lesson plans. I hope my friends who will read this blog, could get information and it may help them to make one if they need it in the future. Thank you!