Acti-Plan: Appropriation of ICT Resources for Pre-Service Teachers' Teaching Practice in Immersive Virtual Worlds

2. Teaching Planning

One of the most important processes to be performed by future teachers is the teaching planning. However, it is not often planned before classes because it is assumed just as a document that teachers have to design only for fulfillment.

The teaching planning corresponds to a general path of learning to be achieved by students during a specific time. From this perspective, it becomes a rather mechanical activity, which does not coincide entirely with the implementation of classroom lessons (EducarChile, 2013). Rosales (2002) defines the teaching planning as the act of using a consistent set of procedures with a set of activities and actions connected planned it previously. Planning is a fundamental task for teaching. It allows joining a particular pedagogical theory and practice and enables to think coherently sequence of learning to be achieved by students. Otherwise, it is possible that students perceive a number of isolated experiences to assess the accumulation of learning rather than the achievement of a process.

Before starting planning, it is important to differentiate between the concepts of planning and design education. Both phases are acts of individual and collective reflection of teachers in their professional status (MINEDUC, 2007).