Outline of Watch Party video

on Lesson Planning 101

In this workshop, you will learn how to use the Watch Party
method to interactively teach your students with a pre-recorded
video. You may take notes in a notebook. Please join us on
Nearpod.

Please use the outline below to check off each item as they
are discussed. We will stop periodically to allow for Q&A. We
will cover as much of the video as time allows. You may
continue your learning journey later.

This is the outline of the video with interactive activities:

● Warm-up questions
○ How can Watch Parties benefit teachers?
○ Agree/Disagree poll
● Information before planning (what do you need to know to plan?)
○ Know your students
○ Know your content
■ Recognize the Forest and the Trees
● “Forest” Level
○ TESOL standards, textbook, colleagues
● “Tree” Level
○ Overall language development needs
○ Know the resources you have to teach (environment)
○ Pause & Check for Q&A
● Components of a plan [template]
○ General information
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○ Objectives(s) [refer to test data, observations]
○ Materials/Resources
○ Procedure [anticipate the order & time of learning]
○ Assessment
○ Which is the most important? [Poll]
● Objectives (language and content goals are clear, measurable and attainable)
○ What are Clear/Attainable/Measurable (CAM) goals?
○ Keep these in mind when writing objectives
■ Look at 5 examples
○ Practice writing objectives with topics [Jam-board]
● Assessment (how to assess Ss on language and content goals)
○ Have you used any of these assessments at the end of
a lesson?
■ Look at 5 examples
○ Consider planning backward [slide]
● Ways of Ordering a Lesson
○ Look at 4 examples
■ Gagne’s Nine Events
■ Hunter’s 7 Steps
■ 5E Instructional Model (for STEM)
■ I do, We do, You do
○ Practice ordering a lesson [Put these in order]
● Reflection (how do you know the lesson was good in order to improve?)
○ Forms of reflection
○ Reflection questions (What do you do Poll)
○ Other lesson planning considerations
● Your Exit Slip: How will you use this information?

Complete resources available on AmericanEnglish.state.gov

https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/american-english-webinars#child-1916
 Outline of Watch Party video
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Video “Lesson Planning 101 - Mapping Activities for a Clear Path to Learning” (YouTube)