The Importance of the Lesson Plan Elements in Education and Teachers’ Practices of Them

Abstract

Lesson planning is a crucial element of constructive teaching–learning process supplying the teacher with a coherent framework of teaching and assisting with the smooth flow of the lesson. It can be considered as a teacher’s road map of what students ought to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. The objectives of this study are to find out to which extent teachers apply the design elements of the lesson plan and to investigate their perceptions of the importance of these elements. Descriptive design with a quantitative approach was used in order to achieve these objectives, involving teachers in public schools in Ramallah, Qalqilya, and Tulkarem directories in the scholastic year 2020–2021, and a random representative sample was chosen to answer a questionnaire, which was developed based on review of the literature, and included (30) items which were distributed into two domains. Results showed that teachers apply the design of the lesson plan and their perception of the importance of the lesson plan is high. Moreover, there was no statistically significant differences in teacher’s practices and perception according to gender or experience years. While there were a statistically significant difference in their perception according to academic qualification, teacher who has educational qualification certificate was significantly higher than those who haven’t. Our result suggests the necessity for teachers to obtain educational qualification certificates.