Lesson Notes preparation by teachers have seen some ups and downs between them and their immediate superior. Teachers admit that lesson notes preparation is very important and helps the teachers to stay on course in lesson delivery.
The introduction of the New Standard-based Curriculum has even made it easier for teachers to prepare their lesson Notes for lesson delivery.
The current educational trends points to the fact that there’s the need to digitalise the preparation of lesson plan and do away with the archaic handwritten lesson plan. Here’s why GES should accept softcopies of lesson notes.
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Advantages of Lesson Notes Preparation in Softcopy
The new Standard-based Curriculum which began in the primary schools in 2019 has made teaching and learning more practical for learners. This has called for the need of more Teaching and Learning Resources (TLR) to ensure the effective implementation of the curriculum.
Teachers have now focused on the acquisition of TLRs for effective teaching and learning. Hence, if teachers should still spend more time in writing lesson plans, that would mean they will have to balance the little time they have in writing lesson plans in notebooks and preparing TLRs. Surely, one of these will be left behind.
However, if softcopies of lesson plans were accepted by GES, this would result in more time for teachers to prepare TLRs. When that happens, there will be less room for teachers to complain about TLRs since they will now have time to improvise.
Also, Softcopy lesson plans helps to include multimedia contents such as pictures, animations and website links into them. Teachers can share ideas together no matter your location of teaching. For instance, a teacher teaching in class one at a certain school can share his or her ideas with a teacher in class one of different school.
The softcopy will also reduce one of the most stressful part of lesson preparation; writing the lesson plans for the same class in the next academic year. The softcopies will reduces the burden of writing the same notes in the subsequent academic years. A teacher will just have to edit the notes to suite their learners and the TLRs they would use.
Consequently, if this initiative is implemented and monitored well in our basic schools, itwill provide teachers with adequate time to prepare, develop TLRs and also do more research on the methods and contents of what they will teach.
