YEAR PLAN

Year planning is a long term planning of the instructional process. At the beginning of the academic year, all teachers make a plan for organizing the year’s work. In this plan the total course material is divided into units & units into daily lessons. Year plan in a subject should indicate the course purpose & objectives, course units, number of lessons, the time schedule for dealing with each unit, suggested methods of teaching, details of equipments & aids, their sources, etc.

Why year planning?

·         It indicates the total weightage to be given for various instructional objectives & content.

·         It points out the way of achieving these objectives & the methods & approaches to be adopted for each topic.

·         It gives suggestions to make teaching interesting, economic & effective.

·         It makes evaluation easier as teachers are clear about the weightage given to objective as well as content.

·         It makes evaluation objective based.

·         It makes professional co-operation & mutual exchange of ideas as the teachers of a school plan for the year jointly.