Welcome

Lesson Plan Seminar

To teach you how to Plan Structured Lessons, Motivate Students and Reduce Discipline Problems by

using Good Lesson Planning and Class Management Strategies

The Aim of this Seminar is

Learners will be able to

Write a Lesson Plan

Identify Strengths and Weaknesses in Various Class Management Techniques

Objectives

Lesson Plan

What is a Lesson Plan?

Why is it important?

Lesson Plan will

Bring back Motivation

Solve Discipline Problems

Remove Stress

Lesson Plancurrent system

How do you plan your lesson?

What do you include?

What are your feelings about it?

Who is Lesson Plan for?

It’s for You !!!

It’s not for the students or the administrators.

Abraham

Lincoln

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening

the axe”

Lesson Plan

a) What you wish to teach in the lesson. (Aim and Objective)

b) How you will teach it (Method – Instructions) c) What materials you will need to help you

(Resources) d) How you will check that students have learned

(Assessment) e) How will you check your performance (Evaluation) f) What preparations you will do in case things don’t

go as planned. (Contingency)

What is an AIMThe overall intent of the

lesson i.e. what you intend to do

1-2 aims for a 2 hour lesson

Normally starts “to teach”

Objectives / Learning Outcomes

What the learner will be able to do as a result of the lesson

Must be linked to the assessment methods

Expressed as : Learners will be able to

2-3 objectives for a 2 hour lesson

Prerequisite / Prior Knowledge

What students should already know

What you should know about students

Resources / Materials Regular items e.g. Pens, Paper,

Text Books

Special items for the lesson e.g. Posters, Charts, Worksheets, Cassette Player

Method / Instructions(“Classroom Teaching”)

Teacher’s Activity

Students’ Activities

Assistant / Helper’s Activity

Different Work for Different Abilities

Method / Instructions(“Classroom Teaching”) cont..

Warm Up Recap

Story, Song, Game

Photos, Posters, Objects, Visuals

Can be to introduce new topic

Light Hearted

Introduction Aim, Objective

Get students thinking about the new material.

Method / Instructions(“Classroom Teaching”) cont..

Presentation Teach new Material

Divide into small time blocks to create variety

Teacher - Talking / Writing / Reading / Listening

Students - Talking / Writing / Reading / Listening

Pair Work / Group Work

Open Discussion / Drawings / Stories / Worksheets

Games / Physical Activities

USE YOUR IMAGINATION

Bear in mind different abilities of students

Method / Instructions(“Classroom Teaching”) cont..

Practice

Time set aside to practice what’s been taught

Can be written or oral

Pre-prepared Worksheets

Individually / Pair Work / Group Work

Encourage to ask if not understood

NO NEW MATERIAL to be introduced

AssessmentTo Check that learning has taken

place as per objective.

Can be Written or Oral

or can even be on going through the lesson.

Record of results must be kept

Home Work

To reinforce current lesson

To check understanding of current lesson

To prepare for next lesson

Does not necessarily have to be written work

Evaluation Teacher should evaluate each lesson Did things go as planned

What went well What could be improved Was preparation adequate Were objective fulfilled Was the lesson relevant to the objective Did the lesson develop logically Were students motivated and interested Was the style of delivery correct

Detailed notes will help to

Improve following week’s lesson

Same Lesson for following year

Contingency Very few lessons go as planned. Most of the

time it is just small adjustments. Sometimes they dramatically don’t go as planned

Assistant has not come in

Lesson is too easy

lesson is too difficult

Lot of spare time is left

Tape Player does not work

Think about what can go wrong and always have some extra activities prepared

Scheme of WorkYear’s work to be divided over

actual teaching weeks availableShould be written in similar

format to Lesson Plan - but less details

Without Scheme of Work it is not possible to do Lesson Plan

Scheme of work can be for a term instead of whole year

RECAP - Lesson Plan -1 a) What you wish to teach in the lesson.

(Aim and Objective) What you wish to teach in the whole year (Scheme of Work) What your students already know (Prerequisite)

b) How you will teach it (Method – Instructions)

Students are actively involved

Reinforces what has already been learned

There is maximum learning.

There is time to practice what they have learned

Teachers talking input is no more than 10 minutes at any

one time.

Different abilities of your students. (Differentiation)

RECAP - Lesson Plan -2 c) What materials you will need to help

you to teach. (Resources)

d) How you will check that students have learned what you wish them to. (Assessment)

e) How will you check your performance (Evaluation)

f) What preparations you will do in case things don’t go as planned. (Contingency)

Potential Problems if you don’t plan well

Aimless Wandering

Failure to achieve objectives

Materials not available

No connection with before or after

Students are bored and misbehave

Weaker students are left further back

Potential Benefits if you do plan well

No unpleasant surprises

Stay on track

Achieve objective

Useful for substitute teacher

Can be recycled

Students stay motivated and well behaved

That is the end of Lesson Plan Presentation