Failure to plan is planning to fail discuss this statement in reference to your future as a teacher?

Answer 1

Planning is very important as far as teaching is concerned As a teacher I have the following views about planning and failing;
When you fail you did not plan to fail because no body wishes to fail. But when you fail to plan especially at the beginning you are automatically planning to fail.
Consider a situation where you are going to teacher and it is just 5 minutes for you to start your lesson with your class and you are still 4km away from the school, you have not made lesson plan and scheme of work of the lesson and even your learners have not swept the class. This is automatic that you will fail to teach the period in the time it was supposed to be taught This clearly show that when one fails to plan he will fail his mission at the end.
As teachers we need planning since without which we are liable to fail our learners
The headteacher should plan for all the activities in the school at the beginning of the term. These may include the public days the time of exams the time of visits and others.
Planning creates confidence in the teacher and it is this that stimulates the learners to learning.
When you plan, you are aware of what to do next, you are organised and you know what you are doing. In other words one who plans do not panic in any way.
Economically planning is very important. To the school there are many activities which need to be planned This means that as teachers we need to know much about planning. Activities like improving the school standard , student's behavior and student's performance needs planning and in many schools where planning is poor, such activities fail- meaning that failing to plan automatically leads to fail.
Let us look at our Country Uganda, it is a country where people are below poverty line and they survive but do not leave, and it is through planning that few are leaving, the incomes are low but the expenditures are many. To survive planning is very important.
I come back to our fellow teachers who are in the field working. Most of these have been characterised by the community to be poor, low income earners, doing a bad profession, etc. But I personally look at this as a result of poor planning. The teaching profession is the best of all other professions because,
Teachers are given holy days but still get their earnings though small compared to other professions that do not get such holy days. Being a teacher one has freedom of doing other activities apart from teaching so long as they will not negatively affect his or her teaching. Now the question is, What has caused teachers be called poor and teaching profession be called bad?
The best and obvious answer is that people involved in the teaching profession have failed to plan for the time they have and the money they get however little it is.
There teachers should note that as they teacher they should plan for their time and other resources. As student teacher therefore we should prepare to meet challenges in the field we are in and we should prepare enough to overcome them through early planning
I can not confine the reasons to why people fail in doing certain activities to failure to plan.
In reference to the teaching profession there are so many reasons why students fail to pass tests and examinations, why teachers fail to teach and why schools fail to improve their general performance. These include;
Limited resources in the schools
Background of the learners
The attitudes of the learners towards education
The current curriculum
Lack of parental participation in the school management.