LSTI 3604
Lesson Plan
 A lesson plan is a document that
outlines the content of your lesson step
by step.
What is a lesson plan?
 It’s a list of tasks that your students will
undertake, to help guide your teaching.
 A lesson plan is usually prepared in
advance and can either cover a one off
activity, an entire lesson, a unit or course,
a day, or a week.
What should be
included in a
lesson plan?
In groups of 5,
discuss what
should be
included in a
good lesson
plan
You have 5 min
Some groups will
be chosen
to share their ideas
with the
class, so be
prepared
 Grade
 Duration of the lesson
 Subject
What to include
in the lesson plan
 Focus area/target skill
 Lesson Theme
 Aims of the lesson
 Lesson Objective(s)
 Inclusive strategies
 Resources relevant to the objectives
 Complete lesson introduction
 Body of the lesson
 Teachers’ activities (including classroom
management aspects)
What to include
in the lesson plan
 Learner’s activities (including the content
that supports the lesson objectives)
 Assessment
 How to Assess?
 What? (Knowledge of … / Ability to…)
 By who
 Reflection
 Who you are teaching (including age, level,
size of class and students’ background)
The context for your
lesson
 Practical information, such as the timings and
place of the lesson
 How the lesson fits into a syllabus or course of
lessons
 The aims and outcomes of the lesson
 Any anticipated problems and suggested
solutions - these should focus on problems
your students are likely to have with the
language you are teaching
 The timing for each part of the lesson
 The stages of the lessons
 The specific activity / activities that you will be
delivering for that stage
The structure of your
lesson
 Who will be involved in each activity or the
‘interaction pattern’
 The resources that you will need to deliver each
activity
 An analysis of the vocabulary or grammar point
you're teaching
 You may also be asked to provide a rationale
explaining why you chose to teach your lesson
in this way.
Visual
 Visual learners learn through seeing things.
 This can be pictures, charts, presentations or demonstrations of
how something is done.
Learning Styles
 For example, a visual learner can see a picture of an apple, be
told it’s an apple and then remember this for the future.
Auditory
 Auditory learners learn through listening and speaking.
 They usually enjoy reading out loud and listening to recordings
of text.
 You can bring out the best in auditory learners by including lots
of listening, speaking and music activities in the classroom.
Kinaesthetic
 Kinaesthetic learners learn through doing.
Learning Styles
 They bore easily if there is no physical stimulus to
maintain interest and will take notes in lessons just
for the sake of moving their hands.
 Doodling, jotting things in the margin, highlighting
and drawing pictorial representations are all part of
this learning style.
 Once you have established who you are going to
teach, the next crucial question is: what do you want
your students to learn?
 In other words, what is the aim of your lesson?
What is a Lesson Aim?
 Every lesson plan should have a clearly stated aim.
 This will determine the content and activities that
you include in a lesson.
 You should try to make your aim as clear and
specific as possible.
 This will help ensure that you develop suitable
content for the lesson and make it easier to see if
the aim has been achieved at the end.
Lesson Outcomes
 If we think of lesson aims as what we
want the learner to achieve, lesson
outcomes are how they are to achieve it.
 A key part of successful teaching is
anticipating difficulties that can arise in
the lesson.
Anticipating Problems
 If you think in advance about how to
deal with issues that might come up,
then you are in a far better position to
deal with these if they do arise.
 Problems can come in many shapes and
sizes – it’s not just a matter of worrying
how to manage the class itself.
Any Questions?
 Page 33
CAPS
 Create a lesson plan using topic 1 of
term 1 for grade 4