| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

Week 5

This version was saved 16 years, 2 months ago View current version     Page history
Saved by PBworks
on January 12, 2008 at 10:32:35 am
 

 

Week 5: Planning Lessons

 

 

February 11-17, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Putting it all together: Hands on Projects

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Objectives

 

 

By the end of week 5, we should all have:

 

  • Read the online articles on Lesson Planning, posted in the Links folder and uploaded to the Articles folder in PDF format.
  • Thought of a hypothetical teaching situation
  • Written a detailed lesson plan
  • Selected the materials to be used
  • Created the corresponding learning activities
  • Uploaded our lesson plan to our individual folder or
    • Created our individual site in pbwiki
  • Revised lesson plans in pairs giving feedback to each other
  • Made adjustments to our work, if necessary (taking feedback into account)
  • Uploaded the new work into our individual folder or
    • Updated our wiki

 

 

Activities

 

 Thinking about our classes

 

 

Welcome to this week's session.  Before we start, let's think about some of our classes.  Have you ever had a course with two classes where you used the same lesson plan.  Then you got to class and everything was perfect, just the way you wanted it to and happily you went to the next class and disaster!  Can you think of the reasons why?  Was it your plan? the class? the environment? or you?? Tell us about it, by writing in our blog at lessonplanning.  We'd like to hear your experiences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading what others say

 Sometimes its a good idea to take a look at what other people have to say about lesson planning.  There is a lot of material on the web but we thought that these short articles summarise the main points very.  Not all the articles in our Lesson Planning folder are specifically related to English language teaching, but then again lesson planning isn't only done by English language teachers. If you find any other articles that you think are interesting and relevant to this discussion, please upload them into our folder Articles participants will like to discuss on our Yahoo group page.

 

 

Click on the individual links to go to the articles we have chosen here, or access them all from our Lesson planning folder in our Yahoo group page.

 

 

In Lesson Planning I, Callum Robertson, looks at some questions we should ask ourselves before we begin to plan our lesson, the importance of a lesson plan, its essence and the principles on which it is based. 

 

In Lesson Planning II, he continues by looking at the aims of the lesson plan, the context in which it will be used and gives a specific example.

 

The EducatorĀ“s Reference desk gives a detailed plan of things to take into consideration when writing a detailed lesson plan.  It also gives a number of reference sites that can be used for ideas.

 

Finally, Dr. Bob Kizlik talks about what he considers to be Six common mistakes in writing lesson plans  and gives his views on how these can be dealt with. and in Lesson planning ideas , he continues by looking at six important aspects of the lesson plan.

 

 

Looking at examples of Lesson plans

 

It's always a good idea to look at other teachers' lesson plans as they can be a source of ideas.  We've choosen two out of the large number of online sites where you can find ready made lesson plans.  Go to either one, or both of these sites, and look at the lessons plans created by the teachers.   Are the plans you've chosen similar to the ones you write?

 

 

 

 

Thinking about our own lesson plans

Based on your experience as a teacher and also as a learner, do you agree with the views expressed in these articles?  Do you think that other aspects should also be taken into consideration?  Do your lesson plans reflect the process put forward by these writers?  Let us know what you think by writing in our Lesson planning blog.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing our own

 

Now it's time for us to write our own lesson plan.  Let's do the following:

 

Think of a specific learning situation and write a detailed plan for your group.  To get an idea, take a look at  Lesson_plan.

Once that is done, upload your plan to your Yahoo folder. 

Invite other participants to check your plan and give you feed back.

Based on feedback, revise your plan.

Upload the new plan to your folder.

 

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.