Teaching is not as easy as it might seem at first sight. you have to plan everything in advance and to know every step of the process in advance, before you even step into the classroom. You must know the lesson you will teach, choose the exercises to match the main objectives of the lesson and also the appropriate methods and additional materials. All these require a serious documentation and planning in advance for every single lesson to be taught. And everything is more clear if it is written on paper. That is why teachers are required to write lesson plans and spend a lot of time doing it. But if you want to be methodical, efficient and also to save time, you will need a good software application that will help you with your lesson planning. A very good example is Lesson Planner 0.0.1.0 Alpha that was developed by JMSoftware.
The software application is a very powerful and useful tool that can be easily used by teachers in their lesson planning activity. As you can see from the screenshot , Lesson Planner 0.0.1.0 Alpha offers the basic structure for all the lesson plans and the teacher only needs to fill in the data according to each case, that is the Lesson title, Lesson location (the teacher can take the students to the museum for example), class name, date, time, etc. After this initial information the teacher can write the main objectives, additional material, worksheets, tests and so on. Every such lesson plan is customizable and , what’s best and very useful, it can be exported in another format like Word and PDF and either printed or saved on the computer.
This software application has a very easy to use and user friendly interface and helps the teachers save time when planning their lessons and also keep all their lesson plans in one place, where they have access immediately in case they need that. Plus, as a bonus, this software helps them be very organized and efficient in their work, which is always a blessing and allows them to carry on their jobs in due time with a minimum of effort.
The software is very small in size, so it will take very little space on your computer hard disk, having only 1.8 MB. It can be downloaded as freeware and this, too, is very good news, as everybody likes to use something that is both good quality and free of charge. It is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7 and has no other system requirements.
