Lesson plan

Preparing a Lesson Plan.

When you are preparing a Lesson Plan, you should consider the students’ interests level, attention level, abilities to work in group, knowledge, accommodations and learning preferences. The main objective of all these considerations is to meet the students’ needs since it is the key in successful teaching and learning. Trying to do an activity that fit most of the learners’ needs is an important step. When the school in which you teach provides you curriculum guides, you should use it. It is a better idea to use it than to make something on your own. Remember that the ones who designed it know why they do it that way. Not only do you have to use the materials that the school gives you, but you also can look for materials that you will need for your activity. You may think that need materials only for doing the lead in. Keep in mind that you might need materials the whole lesson. When planning to give instructions, you have to make a list of the most important facts, keys , concepts, Skills, or the vocabulary. You could prepare an outline.

The following link shows us a lesson plan that includes a good Outline for a conversation activity: http://esl.about.com/od/conversationlessonplans/a/high_ask.htm

Identify the aims and outcomes that Ss wil have achieved at the end of the task. For example: to give advice using modals (could, should, etc)… you hope that by the end of the activity Ss will be able to use the modals to give advice. The main objective is the task that Ss are expected to perform. Plan a great lead-in that could include a focusing event or attention grabber that will engage the Ss to pay attention and learn about what you plan to teach. It is great to have motivated Ss from the beginning of the lesson. It is your job to make it possible.

Make a list of many ways in which you give Ss opportunities to practice wht you want them to learn. First, plan to give clear instructions so that Ss can perform the activities on their own. The more practice you give them, the better chacces they have to lean well the teaching point. For example when you ask the student to describe a person using adjectives, They wil be able create their sentences on their own making use of the vocabulary you hope them to learn. Make a list of how to check for comprehension without using” DO YOU UNDERSTAND?”. At the end of the lesson you can ask the Ss what they learned. Plan how to measure the Ss success in achieven the items you planned to reach. The objective is to evaluate Ss performance. You can do it using True or false responses, Matching, oral presentations. The last section is to be completed after the lesson  because it is your reflection about the lesson. It represents the feedback to your performance, what work, wht did not work and what improvements you need to make. The important parts of a lesson plan mentioned here are:  Information about the Ss, materials, teaching point, aims, introduction, development, practice, checking for understanding, Closure, evaluation and teacher reflection (personal goals)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0m-4zxjBgt  This video shows us Six diferrent Lesson plan formats for different types of lesons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohmj5Hln7w This video shows us how important is to write a good lesson plan and what you should include here

Here are two different lesson plan examples....