PeredoJoseferny_ACT3.2_ALternLessplan

PeredoJoseferny_ACT3.2_ALternLessplan

1. What is a lesson planning continuum?

   • A series of steps that are taken in order to determine aims, objectives and needs
     • ...then plan a way to achieve those aims, objectives and needs

2. Types of alternative lesson planning

   • A brief 'running order'
     • simplest type of lesson plan
     • used by many teachers
     • A basic 'running order' activities
     • Advantage:
       • something you can do on the bus in to work or on the back of an envelope in the staff room five minutes before going into class!
   • Flow chart
     • Write your procedure notes in sketch boxes, rather than in traditional linear down-the-page fashion.
   • Dream through the lesson
     • Don’t write anything.
     • Repeatedly imagine your way through the lesson,
     • Think up possible different routes that you might initiate - or that learners might.
       • See where each leads.
   • Half plan
     • For more experienced teachers
     • Put your energy into planning how your class will do skills work
     • Don’t plan any language systems wok
   • Where 's the meat?
     • List the main ‘teaching points’ for your lesson. Go back and list the inherent ‘challenges’ in each of these for the students you are working with:
     • Focus 95% of your planning on paying attention to this ‘challenge’. Decide on your teaching strategies to ‘get to where the learning is going on’.
   • Lesson images
     • Draw sketch pictures of the class at several key moments in the lesson. Show what learners and teacher are doing.
   • The jungle path
     • Creating the lesson moment by moment in class
     • working with whatever is happening in the room,
     • Responding to questions, problems and options as they come up with, and finding new activities, materials and tasks in response to particular situations.