- It will ensure you are well prepared and give you confidence in delivering the lesson
- It will ensure your lesson is situated properly within the syllabus
- It will enable your learners to follow a properly sequenced series of inputs and to achieve your objectives for their learning
- It will make you think clearly through what you can build on and recycle from prior learning and what you need to introduce or explain explicitly within the lesson
- It will help you to identify a variety of modes of teaching (input/explanation, question/answer, peer-peer learning, task-based learning etc)
- It will help you to prepare appropriate activities and materials in advance of the class
- You can re-use lesson plans in future teaching (with appropriate adaptations)
