HOW TO WRITE A LESSON PLAN ?

 

Writing a Lesson Plan for English Language 

A great challenge faced by an English language teacher is how to create a lesson plan to integrate language instruction and content, especially for non native English language learners.

Following are some essential elements to make up an effective lesson.

 

• adapting contents to students’ level of language ability
• creating activities that motivate and engage students
• showing objectives
• find essential question BIG IDEAS
• name key vocabulary
• balance of opportunities
• linking concepts
• culminating tasks
• supplying ongoing feedback and a variety of assessments
• checking for the student's comprehension of the lesson
• timing or pacing the lesson right to the student's ability level 
• examine effective strategies to incorporate into the lesson
• get supplementary resources an effective lesson

 In order to do effective lesson planning, one must keep in mind; 

                  a)    Linking to students’ background knowledge: It is important to know the students, their skills, and their goals after attending school. If they hope to attend an English-speaking college or university inside or abroad, then contemporary topics and events, should be employed as part of their language program.
             b)    Identify Key Vocabulary: Academic contents are used to teach English language skills.
             c)    Big Idea: An idea to which students can relate and fits into the aim of the curriculum.Current topics are chosen and introduced into the class.
             d)    Variety of learning activities: Skills like critical thinking, class discussions and   identification of different perspectives are taught by affording various learning opportunities and activities.
             e)    Note-Taking Skills: Students are taught and armed with these skills.
             f)     Decide on a culminating task: such as a persuasive essay.
             g)    Supplementary resources: To keep the students engaged and motivated, added resources such as video clips, photographs, an inspirational story, audio clips, and music are used.

 In order to write a lesson plan, teachers should be aware of some implications and considerations such as:

English Language Learners (E.L.Ls), in the beginning, may not speak very much although they    understand a little. These challenges for this category of students are higher as compared to those with intermediate-level skills, who may be able to communicate interpersonally but lack specific vocabulary. 

Conversational and academic languages are different. It is not sufficient to be fluent as it is not a guarantee of understanding academic text and tasks.

ELLs usually take five to eight years, to learn the language to a position of, to perform at par with the native English-speaking peers.

Oral or written assessments inevitably measure students’ English skills as well as, or even more than, the content being tested. It is easy for English‐language difficulties to obscure what students know. Students have background knowledge and home cultures that sometimes differ from the mainstream.

 Teachers should:

 

                     I.        scaffold their instruction and assignments and supply multiple representations of concepts, promote student interaction that is structured and supported. 

                    II.        provide explicit instruction in the use of academic language and intensive vocabulary instruction with a focus on academically useful words.

                  III.        deliver bilingual instruction, when possible, which leads to better reading and content area outcomes.

                  IV.        use testing accommodations as appropriate

                   V.        declare clear classroom rules and use culturally compatible  

                  VI.       instruction to building a bridge between home and school 

     These were some basic and key considerations, if followed, will certainly help in  

      writing an effective lesson plan.

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