How to Write a Lesson Plan: 5 Secrets of Writing Great Lesson Plans
Writing a lesson plan will ensure that you are prepared for your class
and will make it run more smoothly. It is important to break the material
up into several sections and choose activities
suitable for each. Knowing
approximately how much time an activity will take is important, but after the
first lesson you may need to adjust things accordingly. It is best to be
flexible seeing as different classes will respond to material differently. If
at any point students struggle, you will have to dedicate more time to
instruction or drilling before moving on to practice activities. For the
purposes of this example let’s assume that an English class is forty-five
minutes long.
How To Proceed
1.Warm up
A warm up activity can be used in a number of ways. It can
get your students thinking about material that will be used later on in the
class, review material from a previous class, or simply get your students
thinking in English, moving around, or awake. This activity should only take up
a small portion of your lesson, perhaps five minutes.
2.Introduction
A good introduction will create a need for students to learn
the material you are going to present and get them interested in the day’s
topic. This is the part of the lesson where the teacher does the most talking
so try to get students involved and use choral repetition to keep students
talking about half the time. Depending on how complex the topic is or how much
new vocabulary there is, the introduction could take some time but in most
cases, about ten minutes should be sufficient.
3.Practice
The practice activity would normally be about ten minutes
and have students working individually or in pairs. Practicing model dialogues,
completing worksheets, and doing short activities would be appropriate. This
may take about ten minutes including going over the answers or having some
demonstrations.
4.Production
In the production activity students should have to produce
material on their own. Rather than reading sentences, perhaps they have to
answer questions or make their own sentences. Longer activities such as board
games, which can be played in groups, or activities for the whole class, where
students work in teams, would be best. The remaining class time can be devoted
to this activity.
It is a good idea to plan another five minute activity that
can be done at the end of class as a review or used as the warm up in the
following lesson. If the production activity does not take up the remaining
portion of the class period, you have a backup plan.
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