To be a student or a Teacher

It is amazing how different a task acts when you look at it from two opposite directions.
A lesson plan might seem very easy to handle when you are a teacher and everything looks just fine; you even get sometimes frustrated why students can't work on the activities that you have designed so well and in so long! ; but on the other hand if you were the student and the same activities were being asked, you might have been stuck with it too.
Now, how is this?
In general when we design lessons, we rarely put ourselves in their shoes, and we just want to get the curriculum passed over and done!
Last week in our class we were working on two different tasks of " The big four and database activities on the Perfect President". At first everything seemed to be very easy, I was even thinking what a wonderful idea on teaching some of the topics in my ESOL classes, but as time went by, I saw some hidden points that I was not sure of as a student. The good thing was that the instructor and her assistant were always around helping us with any problems. So I thought to myself, The more detailed and simplified tasks you put into your lessons when designing them, the easier it gets to be for students to understand and thus fulfill the activity.
Examples of this when designing your lessons would be; Introducing and preparing the students well enough before the start of the activity, giving simple and clear instructions, having some sample works, dividing the task into three different levels of easy, medium and challenging for students with different levels of learning, making it as real as life situation and everyday activities so the students see the point in learning the activity and of course following the four steps of SSCC, which is Searching, Sorting, Creating and Communicating.
The better we design our classes the better the outcome would be and the more productive educational results we would have :)