BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Before planning a lesson, we must explore the physical setting of the classroom, students characteristics,
content and material required for teaching a lesson. Lets explore what background information we require for
planning a lesson? From where can we obtain it? And how can we use that information to guide our teaching?
KNOW YOUR CLASSROOMS PHYSICAL SETTING

Recall the setting of the classroom, where you were teaching/ studying and discuss the classroom setting
with each other. Select one classroom from your group discussion and draw a sketch of the classroom
(you can include black/white-boards size and placement; seating arrangement; number of students;
classroom furniture; chalk/marker box, etc.)
door

Windo
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Black board

Window
w
Windo
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Window
Soft board

Enlist possible challenges that you would face if you

are planning to teach in the same classroom setting.
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5.

Clock
Students
Sitting arrangement
Dustbin
Table for teacher

KNOW YOUR CONTENT

What information do you need,

regarding the content before
planning your lesson?
1. Facts
2. Appropriate informations
3. Information must be up to
students level.
4. Set objective.

From where can you obtain this

information?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Internet
Books
Newspaper
Magazines
Articles
Social media

How would you use this

information to guide your lesson
planning?

Suggest the ways/activities that can help you to

overcome those challenges.

I can arrange students setting and

whatever the activities I would plan would
be appropriate for students. Activities
would in group that will help student to do
group work, or If there is something to
explain so i would try to take student out so
that they would get different environment
to learn and they will understand in better
form.
KNOW THE MATERIAL
KNOW YOUR STUDENTS
REQUIRED FOR TEACHING
THE LESSON
What information do you need

What information do you need

regarding teaching material
before planning your lesson?
I must know the sitting
arrangement of student. The
position of black board, table,
students decks, garden ( if I
want to take them down)

regarding your students before

planning your lesson?
Before going to teach students I
must know their thinking level,
their prior knowledge so that
nothing is new or old for them. I
will take them from known to
unknown.

From where can you obtain this

information?
From where can you obtain this
information?
If I have visited a class
earlier then I must plan a
lesson according. I must ask
other teachers about
planning and teaching

How would you use this

By asking other teachers,

from my first visit, from a
test and from their copies.

How would you use this

information to guide your
lesson planning?

First of all I will select a

content and then topic. Then I
will read a content written on
the book. I will go through
different books and their
information, I will definitely try
to give an recent information
to my students and book as
well. Then I will visit to
internet and ask their
knowledge about that topic.
The most common and recent,
appropriate and must be
students standard information
I would try to give them. Then
I will make my Specific
objective and go through
different activities and
application for them.

information to guide your lesson

planning?

After knowing the classroom

setting I would make my
lesson plan according to it.
An activities can be in group
or pair. If something I need
to do then I would try to take
them to garden or to some
other room ( if it is empty).

I will plan my leom know to

unknown so that lesson
according to their prior
knowledge. I will paln a
lesson from known to
unknown so that they dont
get confuse of a new topic.
And yes the activities would
be according to classroom
setting.