Lesson planning

Lesson planning

1. Planning an individual lesson

   • Sequence of lessons
     • Structural sequence
     • Integrated skills sequence
     • Project work sequence
   • Scheme of work
     • Helps us to think about what we want to achieve and what materials we might need
     • Helps us to include enough variety across our lessons

2. Identifying and selecting aims

   • Aims
     • Main aim
       • Most important thing we want the learners to achieve
     • Subsidiary aims
       • Skills learners must be able to use well in order to achieve the main aim
     • Personal aims
       • What we would like to improve or focus on in our teaching

3. Components

   • Lesson plan components
     • Class profile, timetable fit
     • Main aims, subsidiary aims, stage aims, personal aims
     • Assumptions, anticipated problems, possible solutions
     • Teaching aids, materials, equipment, procedures, timing
     • Interaction patterns, homework

4. Assessment activities

   • When planning assessment, we need to think first about our reasons for assessing learners
   • Formal assessment
     • Tests, examinations
   • Informal assessment
     • Normal classroom teaching and learning activities, homework tasks