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the 21st of August,2023

Theme: Smart lesson planning

Smart lesson planning

What is a lesson plan and why the teachers need it?

What is the importance of a lesson plan?

The lesson plan is important to work for teachers. Actually, a teacher should be prepared for a particular topic before he entered the classroom providing any lesson. A lesson plan is a pre-planning of any lesson. It contains the introduction, explanation, teaching-learning material’s planning, probably asking questions, summary, etc. The lesson plan prepared the teacher to perform well in the classroom . We can say the lesson plan is homework for the teacher. If a teacher prepares a good lesson plan, he can acquire the desired goals.

What should be included in a lesson plan?

1)Learners objectives

2)Personal aims(teacher’s aim)

3)Language point it shows the theme around which your lesson is based and also how it fits with past and planned future lessons

4)Teaching aids

5)Anticipated problems(for the students and teachers) It is very important to try and anticipate any particular problems that the students(or the teacher) may have with the lesson.

6)Procedure the activities to achieve learner objectives

7)Phase

8)Timing

9)Interaction

9)Class level

10)The number of students

11)Date /time

12)Teacher’s name

What is Smart ?

Smart goals

• Effective or SMART aims/learning outcomes should tell us what learners will be able to do at the end of the lesson, the language/skills they will use and the context or topic. A good way to begin is:
• Effective or SMART aims/learning outcomes should tell us what learners will be able to do at the end of the lesson, the language/skills they will use and the context or topic. A good way to begin is:

By the end of the lesson, you’ll be able to...

Let’s see deeper the term smart

• S-Specific
• S-Specific

Is there a context (situation/topic)? Could another teacher understand what you plan to do?

• M-Measurable
• M-Measurable

Can you observe the learners doing something that will measure whether the aim is achieved?

• A-Achievable
• A-Achievable

Is it possible to achieve the aim? Is the level appropriate?

Do the learners have enough background knowledge?

• R-Relevant
• R-Relevant

Is it interesting and useful for the learners?

• T-Time-effective
• T-Time-effective

Is it possible to achieve the aim in the time you have?

Are you trying to do too much?

The types of aims

Communicative aims: Communicative aims usually help students develop their communicative competence to be better able to use language in real-life situations:

By the end of this lesson, students will be better able to talk about their daily routine .

This lesson aims at helping learners become better able to ask for directions when travelling abroad .

This lesson will help learners to talk about their future plans.

In this lesson, students will become better able to write a post and give their opinion on social media.

Linguistic aims

Linguistic aims focus on the systems of the language: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and discourse. If you set a linguistic aim, remember to also state the context in which language is going to be used. Here are some examples:

By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to understand and use the present perfect in the context of past experiences

This lesson aims at helping learners to understand and use comparisons to compare and contrast the cities they live in

By the end of this lesson, students will be better able to use vocabulary to express likes and dislikes

This lesson aims at helping students use contrastive sentence stress to give opinions on controversial topics

Skills aims:

Skills aims focus on the systems of language: reading , writing, listening and speaking. Here are some examples:

• This lesson aims at helping students develop their reading skills for gist and specific information in the context of sports By the end of this lesson, students will have developed their speaking skills by talking about their last holiday This lesson aims at helping learners become better able to write the introductory paragraph of an essay on the topic of higher education in Brazil
• This lesson aims at helping students develop their reading skills for gist and specific information in the context of sports
• By the end of this lesson, students will have developed their speaking skills by talking about their last holiday
• This lesson aims at helping learners become better able to write the introductory paragraph of an essay on the topic of higher education in Brazil

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?

Bloom’s Level Key Verbs (keywords) Example Learning Objective

• Creating -design, formulate, build, invent, create, compose, generate, derive, modify, develop. Evaluating- choose, support, relate, determine, defend, judge, grade, compare, contrast, argue, justify, support, convince, select, evaluate Analyzing- classify, break down, categorize, analyze, diagram, illustrate, criticize, simplify, associate.
• Creating -design, formulate, build, invent, create, compose, generate, derive, modify, develop.
• Evaluating- choose, support, relate, determine, defend, judge, grade, compare, contrast, argue, justify, support, convince, select, evaluate
• Analyzing- classify, break down, categorize, analyze, diagram, illustrate, criticize, simplify, associate.

• Applying- calculate, predict, apply, solve, illustrate, use, demonstrate, determine, model, perform, present. Understanding - describe, explain, paraphrase, restate, give original examples of, summarize, contrast,interpret, discuss. Remembering - list, recite, outline, define, name, match, quote, recall, identify, label, recognize. By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to recite Newton’s three laws of motion.
• Applying- calculate, predict, apply, solve, illustrate, use, demonstrate, determine, model, perform, present.
• Understanding - describe, explain, paraphrase, restate, give original examples of, summarize, contrast,interpret, discuss.
• Remembering - list, recite, outline, define, name, match, quote, recall, identify, label, recognize. By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to recite Newton’s three laws of motion.

Refernces

• Edutoday.in   www.teachingenglish.org.uk
• Edutoday.in
•   www.teachingenglish.org.uk

Reference :International TEFL and TESOL training (Unit 9 Lesson planning)

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