As a language assistant, when you are faced with planning whole lessons on your own for the first time it can seem like a daunting task. Where do you start? How do you choose a topic? Which order do you do the tasks in? What if you run out of time? What if you run out of materials? Ah! So many things to think about! In this tip I aim to answer these questions and give you some ideas for making the planning of the lesson as simple and painless as possible. Remember that as you start teaching not everything will go to plan. In fact, using your lesson plan in a flexible way is part of the skill involved in giving a good lesson. If a task is going well and students are engaged in it and making good use of the time you should probably let it carry on for longer than planned. Likewise, if an activity in your plan isn’t going down so well you may decide to cut your losses and move on. So, please don’t think the plan is to be stuck to whatever happens. React to your students and adapt on the spot whenever possible. Consider the plan to be a tool to guide you, but always use it flexibly. Where do you start? There are many different ways of planning a lesson. As you start teaching, plans tend to be written in great detail and as you get more practice and more tried and tested techniques and activities under your belt, your plan may look more like a shopping list or you may just hold your plan in your head. There are no rules about how detailed your plan should be, unless your are on a teacher training course or are being observed, so experiment with the layout and find out what works best for you. A simple way to start is to plan your lesson in a table format. Here’s an example. Tasks are taken from the Essential UK lesson plan on News. This plan shows how you could use the first three tasks only.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 15:54:43 +0000
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