Your entire life as a teacher revolves around planning. Everything you do before the first day of school constitutes planning. You are planning for a productive school year. Planning lessons, weekly units, and an entire school year is a big task. Many of us find it the most intellectually intensive activity of teaching and a tremendous creative outlet.
Good planning takes practice.
It's the key to professionalism. When you plan, you use your professional judgment to match ideas, activities, and materials with students' interests and abilities. Planning is deciding when, where, why, and how a certain lesson is taught. A plan offers direction, confidence, and security. And plans help you use classroom time more efficiently by reducing confusion and wasted time.