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Lesson plans are particularly important for newly teachers and beneficial for those teachers who have been teaching for years.
Why we plan?
When creating a lesson, a teacher must consider different aspects of lesson planning. What are they? ( refer to pg. 404)
Goals and objectives need to be included. Lesson goals are most usefully stated in terms of what students will have done or accomplished at the end of the lesson. Stating goals in this way allows both teacher and learners to know when the goals have been reached. Teachers should pay attention in noting any homework so that later they can collect them and return to their students at the right time.
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First, the beginning..cont. How to set Lesson Goals ? Identify a topic for the lesson. The topic is not a goal, but it will help you develop your goals. Identify specific linguistic content, such as vocabulary and points of grammar or language use, to be introduced or reviewed. Identify specific communication tasks to be completed by students. Identify specific learning strategies to be introduced or reviewed in connection with the lesson. Create goal statements for the linguistic content, communication tasks, and learning strategies that state what you will do and what students will do during the lesson.
Time management can be unpredictable both for novice teachers and the experienced ones because they cannot anticipate how long an activity will take.
In one hand, activities are underestimated in terms of length. Here, the teacher have to decide what part of the lesson should be skipped, shortened or saved for the next class.
On the other hand activities are overestimated. Generally, newly teachers become very nervous when they have ten minutes left with nothing to do.
Seating arrangements before help the teacher to save time because its more efficient than moving students around randomly.
a lesson plan contains some comments that end the lesson. For instance; a review of the lesson and the homework for the next class.
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In conclusion, in order to make a successful lesson plan, teachers have to take into account the principles of second language learning and teaching and the needs of students and the institution.
Assignment 2
Part 1:
Part 2: Prepare a presentation explaining the process of preparing your lesson plan which would include the following:
How your activities relate to your objectives (guidelines to classroom instruction learning styles and strategies- foreign
language acquisition).
How you plan to assess you students to check if they achieved the objectives you set forth (lesson planning).