TEACHER CONSOLIDATION COURSE

MODULE NINE

LESSON PLANNING FOR SYSTEMS

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Task One – Live Session - Analysing and Action Planning for Lesson Planning

Please do this BEFORE the live session

● Look at the criteria for lesson planning

● Prioritise three areas to work on with your lesson planning

● Decide an action point for each of them

1 Planning and Materials

1a state learning aims appropriate to the learners’ needs, age range and linguistic level

1b ordering activities so that they achieve lesson aims

1c select and/or adapt materials and/or activities / tasks suitable for the learners’ ages, linguistic level, needs
and the lesson aims

1d include an appropriate variety of activities, tasks, and interaction patterns

1e implement realistic timings for the stages of the lesson

1f analyse the target language aspects and/or sub skills in sufficient depth with age and level appropriate
examples

1g anticipate potential problems with language or sub skills and provide appropriate solutions

1h provide a class profile with sufficient information about their needs, goals and interests

1i present materials for classroom use with a professional appearance and respect copyright requirements

Action point Action Plan

● Share your action point and action plan with your group

● Give suggestions to help them achieve this goal

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Task Two – Live Session – Writing Main Aims and Personal Aims

Please do this BEFORE the live session

A: Writing Main Aims

● Use the lesson which you wrote the language analysis and clarification

● Write the main aim of your lesson

Check if your main aim is

Criteria How
1. Required by the
school/curriculum/syllabus
2. Learner centred: What topic
or context will they find
engaging? What level of
language will be achievable
and challenging?
3. Specific: What exactly do you
want them to learn?
4. Observable: How can you get
tangible evidence at the end
of the lesson? What will you
hear and see in the lesson?

● Share your aim in the session

● Give each other feedback on these points

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B: Writing Personal Aims

● Use your feedback from your diagnostic lesson or from feedback you have received
recently
● Use your notes from previous sessions especially Systems 1-3 and Classroom
Management 1
● Identify three personal aims

● State why are they important in principled ELT

● Provide a strategy to help you with this personal aim

Personal Aims Why Strategy

I plan to/I need to work on This is because I will do this by

● Compare your personal aims

● Give each feedback based on

⮚ clarity of the personal aims

⮚ importance of the personal aims

⮚ awareness of why this is principled ELT

⮚ clarity and do ableness of the strategy

Miguel E. Schultz 84 Col. San Rafael, C.P.06470 México, Ciudad de México

Teléfono +52 (55) 7316.1600
Task Three – Live Session – Creating a Class Profile

Please do this BEFORE the live session

Think about the class you will teach this lesson to or have taught
Create a profile for your class and focus on these points

● Who are the learners? (age, level, nationality, background)

● What is their teaching context? (private or public school? School’s approach to language
learning eg. project based, communicative approach etc, private language school, is it a
subject on the curriculum or voluntary studies? Is it a specialised group eg. exams or
business English? How often do they take lessons?
● Why do they need English? What are their interests inside and outside of class?

● What is their language learning background? How many years? Where have they learnt
English? What kind of classes did they have?
● What are their preferences and what activities do they find beneficial and why?

Write your profile here:

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Share your profile with your group
Give feedback on
⮚ How clear is the profile?

⮚ How accurate is the profile in terms of terminology and modern ELT?

⮚ What questions do you have about the group?

Task Four – Live Session – Staging, Procedures, Stage Aims, Timing and Interaction Patterns

Please do this BEFORE the live session

● Go back to your main aim

● Plan three of your stages

● Label the stages

● Write your stage aims

● Write your procedures

● Include timings and interaction patterns

The template is posted separately

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 ● Share your lesson plan in the session

● Give feedback on these areas

Criterion Strength and why Area to improve and why

Logical staging using Text
Based Framework
Clear procedures
a. bullet points
b. in the third person
c. What the teacher and
learners will do
d. Clear and accurate
terminology
e. Procedures match the
stage
Stage aims
a.infinitive of purpose
b.focused on the purpose
c. use of power verbs
d. accurately reflects the
stage of the lesson
Timing
a.suitable for the stage
b.use of microstages
c.use of accumulative timing
Interaction Patterns
a.suitable for the stage
b. suitable for the activity
c. providing variety

Task Five – Live Session – Assumptions and Anticipating Problems and Solutions

Please do this BEFORE the live session

A: Assumptions

Go back to your lesson plan

Write 4 assumptions your learners may know about:
● the topic

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 ● the activities

● the language

ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT CLASS / LANGUAGE (e.g. what do they know about the topic of the
lesson? What schematic knowledge do your learners have of the target language / sub-
skill(s)?):

Share your assumptions in the session

Comment on
● clarity

● realistic for learners at that level, age and teaching context

● balanced between schematic knowledge, activities and language

B: Anticipating Problems and Solutions

Please do this BEFORE the session

Miguel E. Schultz 84 Col. San Rafael, C.P.06470 México, Ciudad de México

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 ● Look at your lesson and language

● Visualise your learners doing this class

● What problems may they have with

⮚ language

⮚ materials

⮚ activities

⮚ classroom management

● Write your problems in this chart

Anticipated language problems for learners (meaning, form and phonology):

Possible solutions:

TASKS AND CLASS MANAGEMENT

Possible solutions:

Write possible solutions for these problems

● Share your problems and solutions with your group

● Give feedback on these areas

Problems
⮚ Linked to the language analysis

⮚ Specific

⮚ Clear

⮚ Realistic

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Solutions
⮚ Specific

⮚ Practical

⮚ Focused

⮚ Efficient

Miguel E. Schultz 84 Col. San Rafael, C.P.06470 México, Ciudad de México

Teléfono +52 (55) 7316.1600