Chapter 5: The Cirriculum

                In chapter five, it talks a lot about planning and the reasons of its significance.  The main reasons behind planning is to ensure curriculum coherence, assure that the curriculum is impactful and appropriate to the students, maximize classroom control by capitalizing on instructional time, and to ensure program continuation. 

                Planning requires attention to many factors.  The biggest factor that must be planned around are the standards of your discipline.  From the standards, you build the rest of your curriculum and unit.  Within the units are lesson plan that include objectives.  These objectives are what will be addressing the standards that must be met.  Then you have to start to think about how the lesson plan are going to focus on the objectives and, eventually, assess the objectives. 

                By having a detailed curriculum, the understanding of what you must do to maximize the efficiency of your classroom.  This is where the aspects of classroom control, the flow of activites, and an increase of instructional time will occur.

                Prior to reading this part of the chapter, I understood certain aspects of planning curriculum and creating lesson plans, but after the reading, my ideas and understandings were reaffirmed.  Having control of your classroom involves having a great grasp on what activities you are going to be doing and when, this all comes from efficient planning. This is also the key to the success of your students’ learning.