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This unit addresses lesson planning. It imparts the following:
Reasons for planning lessons
How a lesson plan should be written
Being organized
What a lesson plan should include
Monitoring the lessons
Planning a sequence of lessons
What a lesson plan should include is a very important thing to think about. Having a form is very valuable to keep everything one has to think about organized.
Issues to keep in mind are:
Learner objectives--this helps to have a teaching-goal for what one wants the students to be able to understand, and hopefully produce, by the end of the lesson.
Personal aims--this helps to be self-critical and to strive to teach better.
Language point--this helps to stay in focus about the present lesson, and how it fits in with past and future lessons.
Teaching aids--there may always be an unanticipated problem with equipment.
Anticipated problems--a handout printed hastily from the Internet may have errors--even a book may have errors.
Procedure--the activities should be thought out carefully, anticipating time involved, and student reactions.
Phase--ESA should be planned out, including estimated times.
Timing--The timing should be calculated in a realistic manner, but it should remain flexible.
Interaction--which people will be interacting in each part? Student-Teacher, Student-Student, or students working individually?
Class level--Keeping in mind the level of the class, exercises can be clearly explained. "All reptiles are lizards" is not an appropriate example for a Beginner class.
Number of students--Anticipating how many students there are will help anticipate how activities will play out.
Date/time--to keep a record.
Teacher's and observer's names, if being monitored--good to keep names written somewhere.
