Year plan

 

Year plan 

Planning

Planning is the process of deciding in advance what is to be done in future.

Need for planning instruction

• For successful and effective teaching, planning is necessary.
• Teacher can present the content in a logical and systematic way.
• Teacher can save time and effort.
• Teacher can expect good instruction.
• Planning reflects the teachers individuality and personality.
• Lesson plan provides opportunity for experiment.
• It provides feeling of security.
• It fits the responsibility of teacher.

Year plan

• Planning for the whole year's work as part of the pedagogic analysis is known as year plan. Here the subject matter and other tasks related to curriculum transaction could be tallied with the total time of the teacher.

• Proper utilisation of all the inputs available also could be ensured.

• It helps the teacher to formulate objectives that could be realised during the year as a whole. Proper scheduling of evaluation and co-curricular activities too can be done.

• This is a plan of arranging various units in a subject and objectives of being achieved through each unit.

• It also indicates the distribution of period for the different unit.

• Year plan contains the month, various units, their objectives and the number of periods set apart for each.

• Year plan helps a teacher to plan his units and lessons systematically.

Importance of Year Plan

1. Year plan helps in the allocation of the total time available for each subject, and for each unit according to its importance.

 2. It provides a basis for the preparation of unit plans.

3. With the help of the year plan, teacher can formulate objectives to be attained by teaching a particular subject in it's totality during the course of the year.

4. It helps a teacher to divide the subject into units and specify time for each, and to plan continuous evaluation at proper time.

5. Year plan helps in arranging the units according to the difficulty levels as well as

logical considerations and thus make learning psychologically and logically sound.

6. With the help of a year plan, the teacher can systematise the distribution of curriculum material.

7. The teacher can adopt variety of teaching strategies by different topics. It helps the teacher to foreseen different learning experiences. This would reduce the monotony in learning.

8. Year plan can helps in economising time and effort on the part of teacher.

Steps in Year Planning

1. Formation of units:

The first step in the preparation of a year plan is to re- organise the subject content of the curriculum into suitable units. Teacher can organise the units systematically and judiciary well.

2. Determining objectives:

Secondly, the teacher has to intelligently anticipate the major objectives can be achieved through different units.

Some units give more scope for the development of skill than other objectives.

 Almost all objectives are developed simultaneously in the teaching learning process, but difference in weightages. Therefore, the teacher has to indicate the weightage to be given to a particular objective as a part of the pedagogic analysis.

3. Scheduling of the time available for instruction:

The third step is to estimate the total number of periods that could be made available for the subject.

While doing  the teacher should consider the probability of missing periods due to various co-curricular activities and unexpected loss of days. Some activities are also integrate with certain units eg. Field study or sourse study, etc the teacher can foreseen it and time alloting for it. After completion of each unit has to conduct a unit test. Hence, he should take into account the number of periods required for tests also.