6 Tips in Writing a Great Lesson Plan

“Learning activities must both integrate the objectives and engage the students.” – Dr. Bob Kizlik

Preparing a lesson plan helps teachers run the course of each class efficiently. How to write an effective one? Make sure you break the materials up to several sections and choose activities that match each. You should also know how much an activity will take time and how to adjust other things accordingly. Just be flexible and see things as different classes to respond to materials differently.

Here are some elements you wouldn’t want to miss if you want your lesson plan to be effective.

1. Practice

Practice would take 10 minutes or more. It can be practicing model dialogues, completing worksheets, doing short activities, going over the answers or having some demonstrations. Students can work individually or in pairs.

2. Warm up

Students can think about materials to be used later on in class, review materials from previous class. Your students can move around or be awake. This activity should only take up a small portion of your lesson plan, about five minutes.

3. Introduction

When you introduce the lesson, students will learn the material you’re going to present and get them interested in the day’s topic. This is the part when the teacher does most of the talking, to try and get students involved and use repetition to keep your students talking about it half the time.

4. Review

This 5-minute activity can be done at the end of a class as review or used as warm up in the following lesson. If the production activity doesn’t take up the remaining portion of the class period, you should have a backup plan.

5. Production

Students should produce the material on their own at this part of the class. Aside from reading sentences, students can make their own or answer to questions. A good idea would be board games which can be played in groups or activities for the whole class where students work in teams. Then you can devote the remaining class time to this activity.

6. Stick to Objectives

Create relevant learning activities and help your students achieve their learning goals.For example, you can stick to the theory part on the first, then you can implement fun ways on how to make your students understand the lesson such as games and other interactive methods.

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