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.
5.Review
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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