Methods to Encourage Teachers in the Damavand’s Secondary Schools to Use Lesson Plan

This research is done to investigate the teachers’ encouraging methods to use lesson plans in junior high school in Damavand town. Based on the related theoretical principles found in the literature, a list of factors which could have any influence on teachers’ encouragement to use lesson plan was identified. Then a questionnaire was constructed to collect the 165 secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards the use of lesson plan in the class. The obtained data were analyzed using one sample t test, independent t test, and one-way ANOVA. The results showed that unawareness of how to prepare lesson plan, unawareness of lesson plan benefits, lack of time, the length and kind of lessons, passing training classes, and managers’ reactions have important roles in the use of lesson plans by teachers.