LESSON PLANNING

PPG215
Semester 1, 2014/2015
Outline
What is a lesson plan?
Why is lesson planning important?
Factors to consider when planning a lesson
Elements of a lesson plan
Format of a lesson plan

What is a lesson plan?
A blueprint that outlines what a teacher
wants to teach and what teaching
strategies to use with a specific group of
students within a stipulated time.
(http://www.telt.um.edu.my/1preparation.html)

Why is lesson planning important?
The teacher can organize classroom
learning towards chosen goals

Careful planning is vital to successful
teaching
Why is lesson planning important?
A lesson requires the teacher to keep
many things in mind simultaneously.
Planning before the lesson gives the
teacher the opportunity to weigh the
various options available and make his
choices before the lesson is done in class.
Why is lesson planning important?
A plan reminds the teacher of the
sequence of activities in the lesson and
the materials required for each stage

Early planning enables the teacher to get
the necessary software and hardware for
his lesson
Why is lesson planning important?
Lesson plans are a record of work done:
for self-improvement from notes teacher keeps of
lessons taught
insights on what does and does not work with the
kind of students taught
Why is lesson planning important?
Important for novice teachers:
Can feel more confident and secure in
class

Good planning will result in high learners
morale and achievement

Why is lesson planning important?
Important for novice teachers:
Aware that an efficient class needs
systematic selection of pedagogy and
arrangement of class activities
Why is lesson planning important?
Important for novice teachers:
Understand that there is a continuity
from one days plan to the next to meet
the objectives

For reflection purposes
Factors to consider when planning a
lesson
The objectives the lesson sets out to
achieve

Student characteristics
Interests
Language proficiency
Factors to consider when planning a
lesson
Students prior knowledge
New learning builds upon old learning
Tasks
E.g., role-play, problem-solving etc.
Materials
Selection of genre (e.g., story, poem,
newspaper article), and presentation of
material

Factors to consider when planning a
lesson
Language requirement of task/activity
Decisions on language need to be made:
(a)during task selection, (b)after assembly
of materials
(a) Would this task generate and give
opportunities for practising the kind of
language the students need to learn?
What kind of focussed language teaching may
be needed before the students can do this
task?
Factors to consider when planning a
lesson
Language requirement of task/activity
Decisions on language need to be made:
(a)during task selection, (b)after assembly
of materials
(b) Is there any language that is unplanned for in
the assembled material?
If there is unplanned for language, is this
likely to pose any problems for the students?

Factors to consider when planning a
lesson
Time
When does the lesson takes place?
How much time is available?
Timing of activities
Elements of a lesson plan
Preliminary information
Date, time (duration of lesson), class,
enrolment, language proficiency, topic/unit
General objective(s)
Specific objective(s) / Learning outcome(s)
Teaching aids / Teaching materials
Procedures

Lesson plan format
General objective(s)
To acknowledge the general objective(s) of
your lesson

Write in general terms, e.g., understand,
know
Lesson plan format
General objective(s) Examples:

Students will be able to understand the reading
passage.

Students will know the meaning of the difficult
words in the text.

Students will understand social conversations.
Lesson plan format
Specific objective(s) / Learning
outcome(s)
To identify an overall purpose to achieve by
the end of the lesson
Explicit statements
Write in behavioural terms, i.e., what the
students will perform (observable and/or
measurable)
Lesson plan format
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. identify the main idea of
each paragraph in the
reading passage.
2. answer correctly 8 out of
10 reading comprehension
questions after reading the
passage.
3. fill in the mind map
correctly based on the
information in the reading
passage.
1. understand the reading
passage.
2. answer the reading
comprehension
questions after reading
the passage.
3. know the meaning of
the difficult words in the
reading passage.
Lesson plan format
Specific objective(s) / Learning outcome(s)
Language related

Students
will be able
to form a
cooperative
discussion
group.
Students will
be able to
describe a
picture using
the correct
adjectives.
Students will
be able to
notice how
pollution
affects the
environment.
Lesson plan format
Specific objective(s) / Learning outcome(s)
Should not be about what the students are to
do for homework

By the end of the lesson, students will be able
to:
write an argumentative essay with the points
discussed in class.

Remember Understand Apply Analyse Evaluate Create
Define
Identify
List
Name
Recall
Recognize
Record
Relate
Repeat
Underline
Choose
Cite examples of
Demonstrate use of
Describe
Determine
Differentiate between
Discriminate
Discuss
Explain
Express
Give in own words
Identify
Interpret
Locate
Pick
Report
Restate
Review
Recognize
Select
Tell
Translate
Respond
Practice
Simulates
Apply
Demonstrate
Dramatize
Employ
Generalize
Illustrate
Interpret
Operate
Operationalize
Practice
Relate
Schedule
Shop
Use
Utilize
Initiate
Analyze
Appraise
Calculate
Categorize
Compare
Conclude
Contrast
Correlate
Criticize
Deduce
Debate
Detect
Determine
Develop
Diagram
Differentiate
Distinguish
Draw
conclusions
Estimate
Evaluate
Examine
Experiment
Identify
Infer
Inspect
Inventory
Predict
Appraise
Assess
Choose
Compare
Critique
Estimate
Evaluate
Judge
Measure
Rate
Revise
Score
Select
Validate
Value
Test
Arrange
Assemble
Collect
Compose
Construct
Create
Design
Develop
Formulate
Manage
Modify
Organize
Plan
Prepare
Produce
Propose
Predict
Reconstruct
Set-up
Synthesize
Systematize
Devise

Lesson plan format
Teaching aids / Teaching materials
List all the materials/aids to be used in the
lesson

Blue tack, poster, worksheet, PowerPoint
file, mahjong paper, (coloured) marker pens,
whiteboard
Lesson plan format
Procedures
Set
induction
Set of activities for whole-
class work, small-group and
pair work, teacher talk and
student talk
Closure
Lesson plan format
Set induction
To increase students receptivity to what is
going to be taught

Lesson plan format
Closure
To wrap up / summarize the lesson
To explicitly write down the steps/activities
the teacher does to wrap up the lesson

Teacher summarizes the lesson for the day.
Lesson plan formats

Format 1

Format 2