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Teaching is sharing of experiences that help in better and easy learning. It is not difficult to make someone understand and remember the text for some time, but it needs rigorous practice of planning to enable the learner understand the text for a life time. Here comes the What is required to plan a lesson? A book? No. It needs understanding of what the National Curriculum Framework is expecting us teachers to do in the clas*room. Most of the teachers, and for that matter, the Principal of the school, too isn’t aware of the teaching and learning objectives given in the National Curriculum Framework. Every Textbook that NCRT provides has guidelines at the start of the unit that help the teacher in understanding the objectives laid by the National Curriculum Framework. But do teachers even care to read those Sometimes, a teacher may know about the topic more than required for his teaching. Sometimes teachers are not aware of different definitions given by the Education Committee for the same concept. These guidelines help in limiting and delimiting teachers’ teaching and thus help the teacher to focus on particular aspects. It is not that teachers cannot go beyond the given guidelines, but during teaching, these guidelines work as a trail on which a teacher has to walk and come back. Once the guidelines are studied, a teacher understands the objectives of his teaching. A teacher always divides his objectives on the basis of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The objectives should be divided into remembering, understanding, applying, an*lyzing, evaluating and creating. Though these are the main objectives for achieving any teaching goal, these objectives further can be divided into smaller goals and larger goals too. Thus, in a lesson plan, then has to be minimum six objectives. Once the objectives are derived, a teacher then needs to find out the skills and the knowledge aspects that he would like his students to be acquainted with or possess. It is called as ‘Learning Outcomes’. Learning Outcomes always starts with the phrase ‘At the end of this