PLANNING LESSONS

PLANNING LESSONS

1. By Jeremy Harmer

   • USING LESSON PLANS
     • Action and reaction
       • Magic moments
       • sensible diversion
       • Unforeseen problems
     • Plans as records and research tools
       • Look back to do the next
       • Possible modifications
       • Record how Ss experienced teh class
       • Sucessful and less sucessful activities
       • Changes in activituies and approach will be considered
   • THE PLAN
     • THE PLANNING CONTINUUM
       • The "Jungle Path"
       • Follow the coursebook exactly
       • Vague plan
       • Planning notes
       • Formal plan
     • MAKING A PLAN
       • Pre planning background
       • Pre planning decisions
       • The plan
     • THE FORMAL PLAN
       • Class description and timetable fit
       • Lesson aims
       • Activities, procedures and timing
       • Problems and possibilities
     • PLANNING A SEQUENCE OF LESSONS
       • Before and during
       • Short and long-term goals
       • Thematic strands
       • Language planning
       • Activity balance
   • PRE - PLANNING
     • CRUCIAL FACTORS TO KNOW
       • Language level
       • Educational and cultural background
       • level of motivation
       • Learning styles
     • ACTIVITIES
       • Suitable activities for the group
     • SKILLS
       • What abilities we want Ss to develop
     • LANGUAGE
       • Practice
       • Research
       • Use
     • CONTENT
       • Variety
       • Coherence
       • Ss interest
       • Ss involvement

2. By Linda Jensen

   • HOW
     • Trends on L2 pedagogy should be known by teachers
       • teaching methodology
       • personal philosophy
       • syllabus desing, textbook selection, materials
   • WHEN
     • MACRO PLANNING
       • Based on syllabus design
       • philosophy of learning
     • MICRO PLANNING
       • Occurs hours before the class
   • WHY
     • GUIDANCE IN KNOWING
     • GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
     • A RECORD OF WHAT WE DID
       • Planning assesment measures
     • SUBTITUES ETACHJERS SUPPORT
   • STRUCTURE
     • BEGINNING
       • Brief description
       • Ss background
       • Week and day
       • Competencies and standards
         • Goals or objectives
       • Vocabulary and grammar are introduced
     • MIDDLE (Lesson Content)
       • Procedures
         • Time management
         • Class management
       • Warm up activity
       • Intro and content presentation
       • Comprehension check
       • Communicative activity
     • FINAL
       • Lesson evaluation
       • Review or summary
         • Comments
         • Assignments
         • Questions
   • PRINCIPLES
     • COHERENCE
       • Lesson hangs together
     • VARIETY
       • content and language
       • Material
       • Pace of the class
       • active and passive activities
     • FLEXIBILITY
       • Teacher knows when a class needs changing