Week 1 - Portfolio Entry 1 Lesson Plan

Portfolio Entry 1 Lesson plan

For this portfolio entry you will have to:

1.      Produce a detailed lesson plan. Make sure that your lesson plan takes into consideration the following:

-       the specific teaching objectives of your lesson related to the place of the lesson in your course;

-       your teaching context (level, age and number of students etc);

-       the material (e.g. course book, handouts, pictures etc) you are going to use;

-       an outline of activities and interaction patterns (individual, pair or group work) for each activity.

2.      Conduct a lesson in your teaching context according to the plan.

3.      Reflect on this lesson in writing.

In your piece of reflection (about 200 words) consider the following questions:

-       How did you and your learners feel about the lesson?

-       What do you think worked well in the lesson? Why?

-       To what extent did you achieve your planned objectives?

-       If you were to teach this lesson again what would you change?

Here are the articles for you to read:
Robertson, C. Planning 1&2. www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/methodology/planning1.shtml

Planning a Lesson http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/planning/plindex.htm

How to Write Clear Objectives" from Pennsylvania State University's Teaching and Learning office gives the basic overview of the ABCD model:
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/objectives/writingobjectives/

"Lesson plans" from the Innovative Technology Center at the University of Tennessee:
http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/lesson_plan.html