Planning makes every achievement possible same is true for teacher’s lesson plan which makes teaching more effective and persuasive. It is a detailed description of teacher’s instruction and elaboration for class. To ensure successful teaching teachers have to use a number of skills in a well planned way very tactfully which comprises of planning, recording, chal­len­ging, dem­­onstrating, securing, managing, adap­ting, explaining, discussing, interro­gating, rev­­iewing, evaluating, modifying, estab­lishing and questioning. To make a lesson plan effective following key elements should be well considered.

• Objective
• Method
• Assessment
• Evaluation

Objective is the first point, it should be clearly defined what objectives are set to achieve, objective is a declaration of intention for the lesson. After completion of lesson what abilities should be developed in students for instance “On completion of lesson students will be able to write a good essay”. The unambiguous definition of objectives facilitates to select efficient skills to implement for teaching.  Be keen while choosing objectives of lesson as they will assist in selection of activities for students being engaged in, it also should be well-matched with development levels of apprentices and achievement expectations must be reasonable.

Next important point is method adopted for teaching. It includes detailed outline of the topic along with activities, strategies and contents.  It also describes how to connect previous knowledge with present and motivate apprentices to implement it in future. Time management is also a key factor in affective plan making and good teaching as it defines the work scheme of teacher to implement in classroom. It grows to be more significant when teaching is done in groups and teacher has to consider the individual differences of students as well as groups.

Here is a useful Lesson Plan Template that can easily be used to create effective lesson plans for teachers.

Assessment has great connotation in effective teaching as it give you an idea about the students understanding, learning and level of transfer of knowledge. It needs to be well planned so that teacher can assess the achievement of students individually as well as in groups. Students with different calibers need to be assessed by different techniques such as quizzes, activities, written practice, working in some model situation. Assessments can also be done while reviewing the lesson. Assignments for assessments can be categorized as peer learning, independent, workshops and small groups.

Evaluation helps to improve the quality of teacher’s lesson and planning as at this step teacher evaluates his own working by over viewing the lesson and performance in classroom.  It might be assessed by comparing the achievement level with previously settled criteria and completion of objectives.  Students’ feedback is also a vital technique for evaluation as it gives second opinion about working and provides a real assessment of working in class. A good lesson plan consists of these basic key points along with a good management of time boosts up the quality of teaching process that result in a good learners output . Questionnaires and review of work as what is worked and how to improve it is the key for the evaluation of lesson plan.