 The importance of lesson planning for a TEFL classroom. A lesson plan developed by a teacher, is a detailed description of the lesson. It can be also considered as a guide providing step by step the direction, in which the teacher designs his or her lesson. Is it really necessary for an effective lesson? If so, what makes it so crucial? Clear lesson procedure. As mentioned above being a teacher's route map, a lesson plan sheds light on the procedures of teaching in a definite way. It benefits teachers in more ways. First, it maintains perfect time management. As organized teaching saves time. When a teacher comes to the class with a daily lesson plan, the key components have already been cleared, such as the lesson objectives, the types of activities, the materials needed, etc. So the teacher is well aware of which steps to take to maintain a systematic lesson. Furthermore, lesson planning helps teachers to be well prepared, and to be aware of exactly what to do exactly in the class. It can be said that it builds confidence in the teacher. So it helps reducing discipline problems and create a more natural environment for learning with more relaxed learners. A teacher with his or her plan feels more confident. As he or she knows clearly what the objectives of the lesson are, and what activities to do to meet these objectives. For a teacher a sense of control and direction is essential. Achieving results. More over lesson planning is result-oriented. So, what does it mean? A result-oriented plan? As well as the objective, the result is extremely important. It means the way of measuring how well the aim of the lesson is reached, which parties of the lesson remain uncompleted, or what topics students don't understand. Assessing a student's progress, a teacher gives ongoing feedback. To be able to do it, he or she should evaluate the student first. A lesson plan provides a record for a teacher and it allows him or her to make connections between the lessons, go back and analyze what goes well and what doesn't in the class, and take notes. So with a lesson plan, it is much easier to evaluate a student. Otherwise it must be impossible to remember all the lessons process and feedbacks. A lesson plan is also a creative process. It allows a teacher to evaluate his or her knowledge. For example let's say the teacher will tell the present perfect tense, next week. While writing the lesson plan, he or she can take steps to acquire the necessary information, if the teacher thinks, he or she knows a little about the lesson subject. Or let's say, the teacher will teach a grammar subject that he or she knows better, but not so sure the way he or she explain it to the class. While writing a plan, he or she can find many activities and develop different strategies. Another benefit of a lesson plan is to provide more unified lessons. All the components of the teaching process should fit together, such as engage, study, and activate parts, etc. That's how a teacher can adapt his or her plan to respond to the student's needs. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. To sum up, it can be said that the teaching process looks like the process of building construction. In this case, the lesson plan refers to a brick, and the teacher refers to the contractor of the building. The pre-planned lesson, a well-managed class with confident teacher may be inspiration for a learner. But even the best planned lesson is worthless unless performed effectively during class time. Thanks so much for watching, we are ITTT the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you liked this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.