You don’t know this but I am very big on planing.

Years ago, I was told by a manger “people don’t plan to fail they fail to plan.”

How this ties into your teaching is your lesson plan.

Most of the time when I’ve ran into any trouble in the classroom it can be traced back to a hole in my lesson plan.

It’s human nature to slack. What happens is you start running the same games and activities in your classroom a little longer than you should. Because you’ve failed to come up with any new activities or failed to plan anything new and fresh.

You must fight the natural tendency to do the minim expecting the maxim.

It’s not easy but it’s the breakfast of winners.

I’m writing lesson plans now and took a minute to post a tip.

I asked myself, what would be the ultimate test of how well I’m doing besides the results my classes are producing?

The answer that popped up was, show one of your student’s moms, your lesson plan and explain how it works and and where it’s going.

Now I do not have to do this but thinking about this is enough to keep the sharpest ESL teacher in check.

Give it a try.