Year Plan ( Teaching Notes)

 

                                                 Year Plan     

A Year Plan is an annual planning of the syllabus of a subject, wherein the syllabus to be covered is tentatively distributed into certain number of units along with the total number of hours earmarked for each unit based on the percentage or importance given to that unit.

  It is a planning for the year, a year’s work. It includes distribution of work/lesson in a given manner throughout the year. It is a systematic calendar of lesson plans, holidays and extra - curricular activities. If the available no. of periods are properly allocated to the units of a subject, in accordance with the requirements, the arrangement is known as year planning.

 Year plan is a systematic procedure for finding out the extent to which the pupils have realized the objectives and specifications.

Preparing Year Plan

Year Plan → Subject wise →Month wise → Unit wise →Period wise →Other Co-Curricular activities (Programs, field trips, competitions etc.)

v Should be done before the reopening of the school and is a long-term planning of the instructional process.

v Should consider holidays.

v Should consider school programs like Independence Day, annual day etc.

v Should consider examinations

v Two heads are better than one. All teachers of the subject should plan it together for more objectivity.

v Should concentrate on topics, subtopics, points, subpoints.

v Should indicate the course purpose, objective, course unit, number of lessons, the time schedule for dealing with each unit, suggest method of teaching, details of equipment & aids, their sources etc.

v Should be flexible.

 

NEEDS FOR YEAR PLANNING

1.    It helps in the allocation of the total time available for each subject & for each unit according to its importance.

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

3.    It helps the teacher to formulate objectives to be attained by teaching a particular subject in its totality during the course of the year.

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

5.    It point out the way of achieving the objectives & the method & approaches to the adopted for each topic.

6.    It gives suggestions to make teaching, interesting, economic & effectives.

7.    It males evaluation easier as teachers are clear about the weightage given to objectives as well as content.

8.    It make evaluation objective based

9.    It promotes professional co-operation & mutual exchange of ideas as the teachers of a school plan or the year jointly.

10. A well planned year plan helps in economising time & effort of the teacher as well as that of the learner.

 

STEPS IN YEAR PLANNING

a)    Deciding/Finalising the whole year syllabus.

The first step in the year plan of a subject is deciding/ finalizing the syllabus for the subject for the whole year.

 

b)    Formation of  Units

     The next step in the preparation of a year plan is to reorganise the subject content of the curriculum into suitable units. This is to be done only if the subject matter is not systematically & judiciously distributed & presented.

c)     Determining the objectives

In this step the teacher has to intelligently expect the level to which the various objectives can be achieved through units. Almost all objectives are developed at the same time in the teaching -learning process, but with different weightages. Therefore the teacher has to indicate the weightage to a particular objective as a part of content analysis.

 

d)    Scheduling of the time available for instruction

This step is to estimate the total number of periods that could be made available for the subject while doing this the teacher should consider the missing periods due to various co-curricular activities & unexpected loss of days or those activities also should be integrated with the scheduling of time for a unit & details about this planning should also be given in the year plan.

e)    Scheduling of the time available for co-curricular activities.

                    In this step teacher will get an idea about the co - curricular activities done all throughout the academic year.

f)      Counting/Deciding holidays and vacation period

In this step teacher will get an over all idea on number of holidays in the year and the plan of vacation. It help the teacher to plan the academic events as well as the personnel

g)    Teaching methods or strategies

                 Deciding upon the type of methods or strategies to be adopted to teach different units. The methods should be objective based, life-centred & learner centred.

h)    Teaching aids or materials

                For making the learning more objective based & effective, a variety of teaching or instructional aids may become necessary, for which decide carefully what type of teaching aid to be selected, decided for teaching different units.

i)      Evaluation

                 Here the type of evaluation tools and techniques proposed to be used for assessing realisation of the predetermined goals are to be given. These should cater to the formative and summative evaluation.

Advantages of year planning

1.    The year plan acts as a guideline for the entire academic year.

2.    The teacher will have a clear - cut picture of the distribution of syllabus into various units.

3.    Teacher will know the time in terms of instruction hours given to each of the units.

4.    Teacher will be able to foresee and plan how he must distribute emphasis between Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor domains for different units.

5.    It provides the teachers with a design of the work to be executed during the year as a whole.

6.    It keeps the teaching systematic and orderly

7.    It helps to arrange the topics according to season, environment and festival.

8.    It helps to complete the whole topics within a period of time.

9.    It gives an idea of methods or approaches of teaching to be adopted for each topic.

10.It gives an idea about teaching aids to be used as well as the availability of teaching aids in the school.

11.It makes evaluation objective based.

12.Since year plan is flexible, it can be changed by the teacher.

13.It gives suggestions to make teaching interesting, economic and effective.

14.It promotes professional cooperation and mutual exchange of ideas as the teachers of a school plan for the year jointly.

                             

FORMAT OF A YEAR PLAN

 

 

          Name of the School:                               Standard:

          Subject:                                                      Year:   

 

Month wise Year Plan for a Class

 

 

 

 

 

Unit wise Year Plan for a Class

Sl.No	Units	Time in periods	Month when planned to teach	Specific Methods if any	Special Learning Aids ,if any	Evaluation