Class structure and lesson

planning
• Why do we plan our lessons?

• Why do you think classes have a

structure?
• To be confident
• To be organized
• To share our ideas with other
teachers
• To give students an idea of what to
expect
• To include objectives and our
expected outcomes
• To evaluate the process of teaching
 Small group discussion
• What are the parts of your class?
• What does your plan include?
• What resources do you use to help
your planning?
 Some aspects to consider as
you write your lesson plan
• Student´s prior knoledge
• Student´s level of proficency in English
• Student´s interests and needs
• Grade level
• National curricula
• The objective of the lesson
• The topic or theme of the lesson
• The best way to teach the students to
meet their needs.
A lesson has three parts:
 Introduction
• Role calling
• Checking homework
• Daily routine
• Reviewing the “menu”
• Motivating or warming up
 Core
• What you will teach: The main skill
(speaking, listening, reading or writing)
• Giving clear instructions for the learning
activity
• Providing a model
• Checking for understanding
• Explaining how students will be
assessed and assingning the time
• Monitoring students as they perform
the learning activity
• Assessing students
 Closing
• Recap main points
• Refer back to objective
• Relate future learning
• Review students´ errors made during
class
• Students share what they learned
• Assign homework
 Parts of a lesson plan
• The
Introduction
• Objective
• Materials
• Motivation
• The Core
• Procedure
• Assessment
• The closing
• recap
 The objective
• What your students will learn and be
able to do at the end of a lesson.
• “Students will be able to …”
• Specific, measurable and realistic

Students will be Students will be able

able to identify … to understand
 Materials
• List of resources needed to teach
your lesson
• List of supplies students will need
• The equipment you will need to
perform the lesson
 Procedure
• How your students will show they
have accomplished the objective
• Students will complete a task or
product
• Students centered
• Remember to give clear instructions
• Remember to model the activity
 Content
• Theme
• Vocabulary
• Phrases or language functions
• Language skills
• Speaking
• Listening
• Reading
• Writing
• Activity
 assessment
• Check to see if learning has been
achieved
• Performed at the end or throughout
the lesson or activity (observation)
 Remember!!!
• Be reflective while teaching the
lesson
• Always have a back-up plan
• Sequence lessons
• Use coherence ( a logical pattern)
• Use variety (to keep students´
interest)
 Teacher Reflection
• Feedback from students
• Feedback from observation
• Did the students master the objective?
• What was successful?
• What went wrong?
• Did the students seem to enjoy the lesson?
• Was the lesson appropriate for their level?
• Peer observation (teacher to
teacher)
• Record thoughts in a journal
 Now write your own lesson
plan
• What are the parts of a lesson?
• What do we consider first?
• What is our theme/language skill/ key
words/ etc?
• What is our objective?
• How will we teach our objective? What are
the steps of our activity?
• What materials do we need?
• How will we assess that the students
learned the objective?
• How will we recap and review?