A guest post from Ali Bilgin Bey

Today we have a special treat. 

Ali Bilgin Bey, the Fatih Schools' Head of English, whose opinions I respect very highly, kindly consented to contribute a post on lesson planning. Here is his guest post:

I have been practicing teaching English for 16 years,

and let me tell you, in these 16 years, whenever I planned a decent plan 

and wrote it down, and went to my classroom, that lesson always went well.

The possibility of any planned lesson going bad is almost zero, and 

the possibility of any unplanned lesson going well is most probably again zero...

OK, it isn't easy to do the planning every time before the lessons.

It is time consuming and in this era when the teachers are super loaded,

it takes a lot from the teachers; but it gives us a lot too as an English teacher...

In Bediuzzaman's books (risales) there is a simile for the sins,

Bediuzzaman describes the sins as poisoned honey,

They first give us pleasure but then poison us when we eat that honey...

For that 10 seconds pleasure, we mustn't risk our life...

Like this simile, lesson planning is also like a reverse poisoned honey comparison...

It first gives you pain for 15 minutes, but then when you get accustomed to do,

you get a lifetime long of pleasure of teaching English properly.

Just try it and keep doing it, you will never regret it...

I hope it works for you.

Best wishes...