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I saw a few lesson plans here and i found them more useful than thosewe must do. Here is an example:
LESSON PLAN
TEACHER: STANCIU ANCA
SCHOOL: ,,Constantin Popescu” Fundeni
FORM: 5th
TOPIC: „ A trip to the zoo”
TEXTBOOK: English G 2000, All
Information about the language to be used:
-vocabulary: words related to farm and zoo animals
-grammar: using the grammar structures properly
-communicative areas: reproducing the intonation of words in lists
Objectives of teaching:
1.Cognitives objectives:
-to identify the new words
-to understand their meanings
-to use the new words in sentences
-to talk about zoo and farm animals
2.Affective objectives:
-to stimulate pupils’ imagination and creativity
-to give pupils confidence in their ability to use the English language
-to have fun while studying the English language
Skills:listening, speaking, reading, writing
Aims:
-formative: to develop pupils’ communicative competence by using proper vocabulary and grammar structures
-educational: to reinforce the pupils’ confidence in their ability to use the English language
Teaching methods: the communicative method
Teaching techniques: conversation, individual work, pair work, class work
Teaching materials: blackboard, textbook, pictures, worksheets, plastic animals
Type of lesson: lesson of acquisitions
Timing: 50’
Lesson stages:
Teacher’s activity
Pupils ’activity
Interaction
Evaluation
Time
This is only the beginning for a lesson plan. If you have 5 classes each day do you have time to write them all? Do you follow them exactly?
tolistefl65
10 months ago
146 comments
John, thanks. man! Succinctly put! Most of them anyway fail along the way ... Something comes up, some student asks soemthing ... The only value of the lesson plan is for the peacher to have pre-schedules what material more or less will be covered and what homework more or less will be assigned. As you said, this is mostly for novices!
johnslat
10 months ago
1592 comments
I think it's absurd (and a waste of time) to make very detailed lesson plans for every class (well, unless you're a brand new teacher and doing so gives you more confidence). In all my years of teaching, I don't think I can recall even one "detailed lesson plan" that survived more than ten minutes of class.
tolistefl65
10 months ago
146 comments
Obviously, this is a plan intended to demonstrate to outsiders or as sample lesson plan submitted for some university course.
In real everyday-teaching terms, since the teaching method (the communicative method) , the teaching techniques (conversation, individual work, pair work, class work), the teaching materials (blackboard, textbook, pictures, worksheets, plastic animals) and the type of lesson (lesson of acquisitions) are standard for the teacher (teaching mostly in the same school and same (or limited number of) classroom), there is not need to repeat. It could also be argued that only "Information about the language to be used - -vocabulary: words related to farm and zoo animals" is unique to this specific lesson.
Therefore, this lesson plan can be used as a master plan to ne copied-pasted on mostly every similar lesson. Lesson plans should be much shorter and informative about specific-to-the-material items that ought to be included.
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