As we already know teachers develop their own personal styles to plan their lessons. There are many things you can include in a lesson plan and the possibilities are endless. Some of these elements are mentioned on pages 371 - 374 in the TEFL book.
Here is a list of elements you can find in lesson plans. Read the list and choose 5 elements you consider essential for your lesson plan. Post the list of the 5 elements and a short explanation of the reasons behind your choice. Don't forget to read one your partners' comments and reply to it.
Here is a list of elements you can find in lesson plans. Read the list and choose 5 elements you consider essential for your lesson plan. Post the list of the 5 elements and a short explanation of the reasons behind your choice. Don't forget to read one your partners' comments and reply to it.
Good Luck!
1- Objectives: Teachers need to determine what you want students to learn and be able to do at the end of the class.
ReplyDelete2- Age of learners: Students of different ages have different needs, competences and cognitive skills that we need to be aware of.
3- Materials: Having a list of the materials and resources that will be needed for the lesson to be succesfull.
4- Skills Practiced: It will help us to enable students to get language knowledge meaningfully for the communication.
5- Homework: Help us as teachers to determine how well the lessons and material are being understood by the students.
Hey Andres, I just read your post, I would like to see how you implement the #4 in class. I´m with you on knowing students age in order to be aware of the cognitive skills and competences.
DeleteJulian to me we as teachers must have a balance for students to develop and progress in all areas of their learning process. I would implement it this way, the first skill listening i would play a song or make the students talk to each other in an activity, speaking skill i would practice their pronunciation doing some oral reading, role play etc, reading skill i would make them read some instructions, read some flashcards and written skill i would make them write sentences that describe a feeling, do some fill in the blanks sheets, a dialogue script. Again this would be my way to implement the four skills in a class.
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ReplyDeleteThere are many things we can include in a lesson plan, for me the more important and essentials five elements are:
ReplyDelete1- Objectives: clear and simple. I will teach this and this. I want to my students learn this. Determine what students are learning in that class.
2- Activities: based on the level and age of learners, it will help me as a teacher to help my students to achieve o execute the objectives of the class.
3- Materials and resources: that I will use for the class.
4- Concepts: that maybe I will need that my students know something exactly. Example- Grammar Rules. Etc
5. Extrahelp: can be homework, but not necessarily... Maybe some exercises or another useful resource for the students and their practice.
Personally, I don’t consider neither in homework nor exercises as extrahelp, students will not do it if they have not the motivation. In this order of ideas, I partially agree with you in the case of using different resources, that is, instead of commanding them to do homework, teachers can employ different tools as to create a blogs or to record a clip, to foster students’ autonomy and motivation.
DeleteEverything is very clear to me. Also, just as Jose mentioned, I think extrahelp is important but making it a requirement may be unmotivating for students. I like the idea of giving them the option of doing extrawork or not.
DeleteI totally agree with this. Being punctual at the moment of doing a lesson plan is very usefull in order to be organized with the class and to dont get lost at the moment of doing it to. Also, in my personal experience, doing extra activities and homework is very useful for students, with it they will practice more what was seen in class and will understand some issues they didnt during the class.
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ReplyDeleteThis part of the forum makes me feel short of words, I think each part of a world-wide lesson planning is crucial. However I tried to choose the most important for me:
ReplyDelete1. Lesson Objectives: you surely need to know and to let your students know what the goals of the class will be.
2. Transitions: to keep in mind how you will connect the pre, while and post in order to get better outcomes.
3. Short description of each activity: I believe this will help you not to lose the track of what you had planned to do.
4. Materials needed: this step helps teachers not to forget the equipment that might be needed when teaching time is coming.
5. Pages of the book to be covered: It is necessary to identify once you use a guide book the lessons you are to cover in the class, as a matter of fact letting know your students as well for future autonomous practice.
Yeah, short of words is the correct feeling, each one fo the elements are very important and to just pick a few of them it's hard.
DeleteHey Julian i agree with you in some steps for a good lesson plan, however considering the level and age of the students will help a lot. But like you said Julian it's hard to pick only five out of the whole list.
DeleteI surly agree with your five main items, just I think that is possible to offer more options for an independent work among the students than the book; and of course I think is not so easy to choose only five, but I guess these ones you talk about are your "must" to be.
DeleteI'd have to agree with you on your first choice Julian. It's very important for students be able to feel confidence in their teacher. By keeping the students aware of the objectives to be learnt in any given class, will give students the sufficient confidence to be able to freely acknowledge the use of a specified topic in a real life situation.
DeleteMy Ideal lesson plan consists in the combinations of these important factors:
ReplyDelete- Lesson objectives: the teachers’ objective in a class is that students learn and understand the topic that is being taught; it is important to check how many lesson objectives the students have accomplished, to realize if the strategies chosen fulfilled the task.
- Short description of each activity: Activities in class need a reason to be done; with a brief description, teachers can set how they want students to work, how much time is going to last the activity, and which are the goals of the activity.
- Age of learners: Teachers should relate the ages of his students with the type of activities he want them to do, because the motivation deals with how involve students are in the topic, and it is the teacher who can, by using the correct activities, raise their willing to learn.
- Grouping of learners: this may deal with the quantity of students and the type of activity the teacher has settled in the class. Also, it may deal with the different students’ English level, if they are in group, one student can learn by other, creating a good rapport in the class.
- Materials needed: materials are extremely important, depending on how teachers present the materials, the class can be super fun or super boring, so the election of the materials entails the students’ involvement within the class.
Hi Alligator I agree with you in saying that teachers should relate the ages of their students with the type of the activities, because each class should be planned taking that aspect into account so the lesson end up useful and
Deleteunderstandable for the students. However, I don't think this is important to have in the written lesson plan, because you alreay know it before planning.
Hi Alligator I agree with you in saying that teachers should relate the ages of their students with the type of the activities, because each class should be planned taking that aspect into account so the lesson end up useful and
Deleteunderstandable for the students. However, I don't think this is important to have in the written lesson plan, because you alreay know it before planning.
Well I agree with part of the plan you have chosen, the only question I have is, How can you predict the quantity of people you will have in a lesson? I think is fine the point of view you are presenting but might be important to have options according to the quantity.
DeleteI'd like to choose every aspect, however I've got my most important 5.
ReplyDelete- Lesson objectives: An objective in the class is the most important factor to take into account because it shows the aim students will get.
- Transitions: I think it is important to have clear what's next and how you are going to move from one step to the other.
- Short description of each activity: The teacher needs to have a place where looking when getting lost, confused or maybe just when forgetting something.
- Skills practiced: It's necessary to have written in the lesson plan what are the skills the teacher will favor, because it cannot be always the same taking into account that all students need different strategies and activities that help them understand better.
- Homework: This aspect is very important because in this point you prepare what will be the practice that your students will have at home, and in this way you have them prepared for the next lesson.
Always we need to keep in mind that extrawork or homeworks need have a motivation. If dont have it. Studentes will feel bored and stressed... Sometimes abscense of homework can help moré.
DeleteAlways we need to keep in mind that extrawork or homeworks need have a motivation. If dont have it. Studentes will feel bored and stressed... Sometimes abscense of homework can help moré.
DeleteI think transitions and short descriptions would go hand in hand. Both would deal with the flow of the class, and should be considered one(important) aspect altogether.
DeleteI'd like to choose every aspect, however I've got my most important 5.
ReplyDelete- Lesson objectives: An objective in the class is the most important factor to take into account because it shows the aim students will get.
- Transitions: I think it is important to have clear what's next and how you are going to move from one step to the other.
- Short description of each activity: The teacher needs to have a place where looking when getting lost, confused or maybe just when forgetting something.
- Skills practiced: It's necessary to have written in the lesson plan what are the skills the teacher will favor, because it cannot be always the same taking into account that all students need different strategies and activities that help them understand better.
- Homework: This aspect is very important because in this point you prepare what will be the practice that your students will have at home, and in this way you have them prepared for the next lesson.
I don't feel that homework is that important, something important about the students success in Finland may be the absence of homework, here! have a look on this video!
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Lesson objectives: It’s important to know what are you going to do and for students to know what are they going to learn.
ReplyDeleteTransition: all the activities need to be connected and have a purpose.
Short description of each activity: In case you may forget some points of the lesson
Level of class: Be aware of the different learning process of each student and to know some of them would do a faster work than others.
Materials: Innovate at the moment of creating the exercises. Be creative
Short and precise, i think you got a structure for a simple an effective lesson plan, good point on considering their level, sometimes we really fail on connecting our expectations with the reality of our students knowledge.
Deletei agree with you in four of the five. i think it's important to take notes of what you see about the level of your classes to include them in how you plan the activities and since it's involved in them, for me there's no need to write it in the lesson plan.
DeleteLesson Objectives: It's one of the most important parts of planning. We need to set clear goals or aims in terms of learning to our students. We need to focus on what we want them to achieve in the session.
ReplyDeleteDescription of what the learners do at each stage: It's necessary to have a written expectation of the interactions and activities that will occur in the classroom.
Timing of each activity: approximated time estimations on each stage of the class are important, but we have to be flexible in some situations.
Age of the learners: Age plays an important role to consider when planning, this might establish the students profile.
Review of the last lesson: it's important to connect what was learned with what is being learned, so the students can feel that they are achieving something trough the different sessions.
I do think lesson objective is the most important element for a lesson plan. It's the structure of the whole class.
DeleteReview of last lesson: For me it is important to link what was learned in previous lessons with the new lesson to be develop.
ReplyDeleteLesson objectives: This will show student's where the lesson is starting from and where it will end.
Transitions: Show every step of the way, this is the process neccessary to reach the lesson objectives.
New Vocabulary: I think that one the most important things for a language learner is the memorizing of new vocabulary, and as a teacher I think it is important to work on it in every lesson so they don't lose what they have already adquire.
homework: It will aloow the student to study on his own and to put into practice the knowledge adqueired on class without the teacher's help, this will also be of some use to check if the lesson was understood or if there are any flwas that have to be corrected.
Well, I consider important for my plan, the following 5 items.
ReplyDelete1. Activities description: I think is necessary to know how to develop the activities, the role that the students are going to play and the relation with the topic.
2. Objectives: because is important to have a clear idea about the goals, the progress and how we can link the topics with the next ones.
3. Vocabulary: to have a record of useful words the students will need in a real context and how they may use them in different contexts, which allows them to produce a written and spoken communication.
4. Materials: it is useful to know their respective uses along the class and activities.
5. Homework: it might be an useful tool tof measures the student's comprehension of the topics and to reinforce their knowledge, by giving them options to do it.
I totally agree with you considering homework as a element in a plan for a lesson, it helps to encourage students to have autonomy outside the class also material is a good element to produce learning into a real context (making real examples) and it allows students to learn by doing things out of the regular class (just taking notes and reading)
DeleteWithout considering other elements of a lesson plan as not important, these are the 5 elements I consider essential in a lesson plan:
ReplyDelete1. Lesson Objectives: The teacher needs to have clear what he/ she wants the students to achieve by the end of the class, so that, the teacher can plan an effective class with the appropriate activities.
2. Description of what the teacher does at each stage: It is important to determine what the interventions of the teacher are going to be and in what specific moments. This allows reflection on who is the focus of the class (the teacher or the students).
3. Description of what the learners do at each stage: In this part we can notice the activities needed for learners to develop, what skills they are going to apply and how they have to do it. We can also evaluate if the class is student or teacher centered.
4. Short description of each activity: When a lesson plan contains details about the activities and how they are developed during a class, it is easier for the teacher to reflect on the teaching practice and judge what activities are useful to help students achieve the class objectives.
5. Review of the last class: Represented in the warm-up of a class, this element allows the teacher to determine whether or not the students understood the topic taught in the previous class and if they are able to recognize it, use it and self-evaluate their own learning process.
the elements you chose reflect that you want to make sure everything is in order so you can develop the class smoothly. Yet you can include inside the activities description what the students and the teacher are doing at the moment, so you may end up with space for two more elements like transitions and the materials. And one more space if you do the review as one of the activities. What do you think?
DeleteI consider these following 5 elements in a lesson as the most important:
ReplyDelete*the date: for having a organized schedule of your lessons and avoid repeating the lesson with your students
*lesson objectives: as a tip to motive the students to achieve them at the end of the class
*description of what the learners do at each stage: to have under control the activity and clear mind or propous of that
*transitions:to make a relation between the activities by providing clear instructions(what's next?)
*description of what the teacher does at each stage: to keep control of your activities planned and how to developed them
I selected these as the most important elements because they cover all the things that a teacher need to give a successful class. (don't forget to be flexible with the activities in the process)
To me, the five most important elements of lesson planning are: Age of the learners (It is important to know how students learn, their cognitive abilities and their limitations in regards to age), Lesson objetives,(these help to provide direction and organization for the class, as well as a sense of accomplishment after each objective is clearly defined and accomplished), short description of each activity (It helps students understand what they are supposed to do in a given time), skills practiced(there should be enough practice in class),and new vocabulary(it is the base with which students will be able to speak proper and accurately in the lenguage they´re learning).
ReplyDeleteI think everything on that list is important though some can be included in others. These are the elements i chose:
ReplyDeleteLesson objectives: these are the reason for the whole thing, what you want your students will be able to do by the end of the lesson.
short description of each activity: this is what you have plan according to your knowlegde of your students and what you think is the best way to make a connection with the content. It's also for bad memory and to make changes.
Transitions: To connect the previous activity with the next or make a pause and then continue.
Materials needed:To be aware of what you need and bring it to the class or review it if it's elements of grammar.
Pages of the book to be covered: every school or institute has one, teachers has to use them hopefully as a guide and students paid for it so it should be involved in classes somehow.
I agree with you on 4 of them, the last one can be expressed inside the description of one of the activities that has to do with the book but if you are doing a substitution that may be super helpful if you have never seen the text book before.
DeleteTo me the most important aspects to care about in writing a lesson plan are these:
ReplyDelete1. Lesson Objectives: each class should have a pourpose, these pourpuses are described as objectives and each class should have this goals reached by the end of it. So, in order to have prove and to have the goal clear it is important to write down the objectives.
2. Transitions: secuence is the structure of everything and as a structure it carries the weight of the knowledge that the students are getting. So to have an order and some sense transitions between what is given help a lot to the students understanding.
3. Short description of each activity: to have everything very clear is good to have a short analysis of what you are going to do. Descriptions are a good option.
4. Level of students: its totally wrong to teach something that is not on the reach of the students capacity at the moment. All the activities should be accorded to the students level of english and knowledge of it.
4.grouping: to have good results from students work and development of the language. Grouping strategies are important for them to have a better practice of the skills.
ReplyDeleteI think a lesson plan should include the following elements:
Objectives: this is almost self explanatory! How are you going to teach any class without at least one clear objective? You need to specify what you want your students to learn.
Short description of each activity: it is necessary to explain the way you are going to carry out each activity because it can help you or somebody else if that's the case. Sometimes you wrote down your lesson plan with days in advance and then you don't remember how the activity was supposed to go or you fell sick and you have to send your lesson plan, the sub teacher will be lost if instructions are not clear. This description should mention what is to be done by students, the steps and also how much time it will take.
Transitions: these are necessary in order to link topics in your lesson, to have a smooth sequence that relates every activity to the main topic(s). It can be a simple question that triggers a relationship among the contents or a short sentence related to it.
Time of class: it's very important to know how much time do you have in order to cover the topics at a good pace so you won't have to speed up and leave your students all confuse or frustrated with half way learned stuff. The time of day is also important so you can think of more active and dynamic activities or the ones that required more attention or concentration.
Materials: Well... It's almost impossible to teach a class without them!!! You need as much materials as possible because these will give your students different types of input and ways to develop the target language.