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This lesson plan is designed for stage 5 Year 9 students. The topics of three
sequenced lesson plans are months and dates. I have incorporated the use of ICT,
visual aids, collaborative work to help students to understand language and cultural
knowledge and to be able to use target language to interact and communicate with
others in three lessons.
Before the class, I will form the students into pairs based on their birthday. More
specifically, students who born within a few days will become pairs in the lessons.
Students are given the opportunities to work with new classmates, which may
motivate students to communicate and interact with different people. In addition,
students are asked to have collaboration with classmates to enhance language skills
in the lessons. In this process, students are able to be active learners to contribute
and share knowledge in the groups. Forming students into groups can satisfy
individual needs if it is suitable and effective. In other words, it is beneficial of
students to form with others whose learning abilities differ from others. At the
beginning of the third lesson, students are asked to have a quiz based on the
previous knowledge. This quiz can clearly reflect each student’s learning process to
help teachers to form the groups. Talented students can be the group leaders to
help others to learn better. Students with lower learning abilities are able to acquire
knowledge and ask questions in the group. Seeking the help from peers will be
helpful for students to enhance interpersonal skills. The research suggests that
collaborative work is a way to encourage learners to learn from each other and
acquire interpersonal skills. Meanwhile, students are accountable to their own
learning process and group learning process in the process of collaboration.
(Holubec, Johnson,1994). Specifically, students who are shy to speak in the whole
class will be potentially encouraged to engage in the learning. Moreover, providing
questions of different levels can meet different students’ needs and potentially
involve all students. Hence, the jeopardy activity in the third lesson includes
questions from easy to difficult to allow all types of students to learn. Students are
able to enhance four language skills in this activity. Acquiring culture knowledge is
another goal for stage 5 syllabus. The lesson plans include some activities that help
leaners to learn about Chinese history and culture. For instance, Chinese festivals
worksheet. On the other hand, teaching students about the language difference is
important. The difference of the expression of dates between Chinese and English
will be taught in the lessons.
The lesson plans have applied flipped learning, which is reflected by integrating next
lessons’ learning goal in the homework and uploading next lesson’s learning
materials in the google classroom in advance. Students are potentially encouraged
to do self-learning at home to prepare for next lesson. The research indicates that
requiring students to do the preparatory work before the next lesson is able to help
students have deeper understanding of the new knowledge. (Strayer, 2012)
Students, who do not have high learning ability, cannot accept the knowledge
efficiently and quickly in class. Therefore, providing extra time for them to learn in
advance is beneficial for them to participate in the class. The research also
highlights that students can have motivation in learning when applying flipped
learning and be more active and interactive in the process of learning new
knowledge. Students are also allowed to learn in personal pace. (O'Flaherty,
Phillips,2015, p86)
It is essential for teachers to provide talented or gifted students for challenge work
because it will enhance the students’ learning interest and desires. More specifically,
arranging well-behaved or talented students to be student-leaders in the next lesson
or making some challenge task, such as the challenge questions in Kahoot or
homework in the lesson plans are effective ways to prevent them for losing interest.
Challenging questions will lead talented students to increase the interests and make
more effort to solve the problems. Meanwhile, students may acquire a sense of
achievable after solving the challenge problems. As mentioned before, talented
students can be student-teachers to help students with lower learning abilities. On
top of that, talented students can revise and consolidate the knowledge when
teaching peers. The research indicates that peer teaching can help to build the
bridge to fulfil the gap between different types of students. (Holubec, Johnson,1994)
The lesson plans also consider satisfying the needs for students with attention
deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). ICT has been commonly used in the teaching
process recently because of its effectiveness. Using ICT to help students with ADHD
is helpful for them to immerse into the learning process and facilitate them to
concentrate on learning. The researcher suggests that ICT is able to bring benefits
for students who have behavioural problems. (1992) In addition, the implement of
visual aids is important for students who have learning difficulties, especially for
reading difficulty. Students will be attracted by a variety of images, which can help
them understand the learning content. The research reflects that using visual aids in
the classrooms can help students to learn vocabulary more quickly. (Baum, 1984,
p17).
Praising students, who have good performance in the lessons is another way to
motivate students to continually have on-task behaviours. In the lesson plans,
students who well behaved can leave the classroom earlier and have less
homework. Displaying the good homework in the classroom is another potential way
to praise students. The research conveys that teachers are highly recommended to
praise students to increase students’ confident and self-esteem, build relationship
with students, encourage students. (1981)
The lesson plans also incorporate the skills from another subject, which is
mathematics. Students are asked to use mathematics skills to answer the questions
of the difference between people’s birthday. The cross-curriculum will make
students feel more challenged.
In short, the use of ICT, collaborative work, culture-based activities, flipped learning,
differentiation, praising, cross-curriculum in three-sequenced lessons can effectively
assist students with diverse needs to meet the learning goals in the syllabus and
immerse into the learning in classes. Providing effective feedback for students is
another valuable resource for them to improve learning outcomes.
Lesson Plan 1
Cross Curriculum themes & General capabilities Explicit subject specific concepts and skills
Information and Communication Technology Kahoot
Capability Hanzi
Numeracy Pinyin
Personal and Social Capability Group work
How the quality teaching elements you have identified are achieved within the lesson.
Cross Curriculum themes & General capabilities Explicit subject specific concepts and skills
Personal and Social Capability Hanzi
Intercultural Understanding Pinyin
Sustainability Group work
Chinese festivals
Quality Teaching Elements (lesson focus) Highlight the appropriate areas
Intellectual Quality 1.1 Deep knowledge 1.4 Higher-order thinking
This refers to pedagogy focused on producing deep understanding of important, 1.2 Deep understanding 1.5 Metalanguage
substantive concepts, skills and ideas. Such pedagogy treats knowledge as something 1.3 Problematic 1.6 Substantive
that requires active construction and requires students to engage in higher-order knowledge communication
thinking and to communicate substantively about what they are learning.
Quality Learning Environment 2.1 Explicit quality criteria 2.4 Social Support
This refers to pedagogy that creates classrooms where students and teachers work 2.2 Engagement 2.5 Students’ self-regulation
productively in an environment clearly focused on learning. Such pedagogy sets high and 2.3 High Expectations 2.6 Student direction
explicit expectations and develops positive relationships between teacher and students
and among students.
Significance 3.1 Background 3.4 Inclusivity
This refers to pedagogy that helps make learning more meaningful and important to knowledge 3.5 Connectedness
students. Such pedagogy draws clear connections with students’ prior knowledge and 3.2 Cultural knowledge 3.6 Narrative
identities, with contexts outside of the classroom, and with multiple ways of knowing all 3.3 Knowledge
cultural perspective. integration
How the quality teaching elements you have identified are achieved within the lesson.
Cross Curriculum themes & General capabilities Explicit subject specific concepts and skills
Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia Know the correct expressions of dates in
Information and Communication Technology Chinese and notice that English and Chinese are
Capability different towards the date’s expressions.
Intercultural Understanding Use Quizizz to help on 4 skills.
Quality Teaching Elements (lesson focus) Highlight the appropriate areas
Intellectual Quality 1.1 Deep knowledge 1.4 Higher-order thinking
This refers to pedagogy focused on producing deep understanding of important, 1.2 Deep understanding 1.5 Metalanguage
substantive concepts, skills and ideas. Such pedagogy treats knowledge as something 1.3 Problematic 1.6 Substantive
that requires active construction and requires students to engage in higher-order knowledge communication
thinking and to communicate substantively about what they are learning.
Quality Learning Environment 2.1 Explicit quality criteria 2.4 Social Support
This refers to pedagogy that creates classrooms where students and teachers work 2.2 Engagement 2.5 Students’ self-regulation
productively in an environment clearly focused on learning. Such pedagogy sets high and 2.3 High Expectations 2.6 Student direction
explicit expectations and develops positive relationships between teacher and students
and among students.
Significance 3.1 Background 3.4 Inclusivity
This refers to pedagogy that helps make learning more meaningful and important to knowledge 3.5 Connectedness
students. Such pedagogy draws clear connections with students’ prior knowledge and 3.2 Cultural knowledge 3.6 Narrative
identities, with contexts outside of the classroom, and with multiple ways of knowing all 3.3 Knowledge
cultural perspective. integration
How the quality teaching elements you have identified are achieved within the lesson.
10 Using Quizizz to test students’ Teacher: Observe and ensure everyone participates R
knowledge of previous two
lessons. Student: Individually do the online quiz
Go through the common
mistakes. Resources: Quizizz
Emphasize the difference https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c96ea9a28d6bf001dc3db0f/year-
between Chinese and English 9-months-and-dates
expressions of dates. (People
say dates before days in China,
which are different from
English expressions)
Form students into groups of
three based on their scores to
allow top students to help
students whit lower learning
abilities. (one group should
include at least one good
student and one low ability
student)
15 Revision activity (jeopardy Teacher: guide students to do the activity and ensure that every LSRW
activity and think pair share) --- group participates, each student is involved.
------Students work in groups of
three and will be assigned as Student: engage in the activity and revise the language knowledge
student A, B, C in a group.
---- Each group will be given a Resources: jeopardy activity PPT
whiteboard to answer the
question and take turn to
choose the question and all
groups will be given 3-5
seconds to discuss the question
in own groups. The levels of
questions contain easy to
difficult, which can encourage
all types of students to
participate. One question
cannot be chosen twice. There
are 25 questions in total.
----Then, teacher will randomly
choose specific students from
all groups to write the answer
and other two members can
orally help this student. (eg.
Students A in all groups write
the answer)
----The group who can answer
most rapidly and accurately can
win the round.
40 Individual activity Teacher: LSW
1. Students will be given a Make sure students are safe with the equipment.
piece of paper to use Student:
Chinese characters to Follow the instruction and complete the task.
make a calendar. The Resurces:
instruction will be visually PPT
given to guide students to Colour pen
make own calendar. Paper
Students are asked to write Scissors
every classmate’s birthday on Bow compass
the calendar to participate in
the further activity.
Following steps on Google
classroom.
2. Teachers will use Chinese
to ask, “when is ***’s
birthday?” Students will
use the calendar that they
make to show the date and
orally answer in Chinese.
A: _______________________________________
____________。
Work sheet 2 (lesson 2)
jié r ì
1. Chinese Festival 中国的 节 日
The names of festival The names of festival Date (English) zì
zì (English) Date (汉字)
(汉字)
1) duān 5th May
端 午节
2) tóng Children’s Day 1st June
儿童节
3) qíng Valentine’s Day 7th July
情 人节
4) qiū 15th August
中秋节
5) jiào Teacher’s Day 10th September
教 师节
6) qìng National Day 1st October
国庆节
míng shēng r ì
2. Celebrities’ birthday 名 人的 生 日
Example: Michael Hooper 的生日是几月几日?
Michael Hooper 的生日是十月二十九日。
1) Huge Jackman 的生日是几月几日?
Huge Jackman 的生日是______________________________________。
2) Chris Hemsworth 的生日是几月几日?
Chris Hemsworth 的生日是____________________________________。
3) Cristiano Ronaldo 的生日是几月几日?
___________________________________________________________。
4) Jackie Chan 的生日是几月几日?
___________________________________________________________。
5) LeBron James 的生日是几月几日?
___________________________________________________________。
shēng r ì
3. Ask your friends when their birthday is by using [你的 生 日是几月几日?]
They will then respond in Chinese by saying [我的生日是___月 ____日。] Fill in
their names and the date of their birth in English
míngzì 生日(Date of birth)
名 字 (Names)
1. 我
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Lesson 3
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Baum, S. (1984). Meeting the needs of learning-disabled gifted students. Roeper
Review, 7(1), 16-19.
Holubec, E. J., Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. T. (1994). Cooperative learning in the
classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
O'Flaherty, J., & Phillips, C. (2015). The use of flipped classrooms in higher education: A
scoping review. The internet and higher education, 25, 85-95.
Thomas, M. (Ed.) (1992), I.T. and Students with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties,
National Council for Educational Technology, Coventry.