Lesson planing

young children are usually full of enthusiasm and energy

All good teachers are able to modify their plans during the classroom progression

it makes easier the life of the teacher in the classroom

it saves time

Teacher will know that he needs for each lesson

it can balance the lessons

it gives to you security and confidence

Teacher feel better because he knows what is going to happen in the classroom instead being worried of what he has to do after

it gives the possibility of observe instead planing the next activity

Pupils get older and they perceive how the lesson is prepared

When, how and with whom to plan

Long therm planing

it will take place before or at the beginning of the term

Talk with the parent to explain them what you intend during the term or along the course.

Look the textbook before starting to giving a class for reorder the plan or take a look what you will do with the contain.

Decide what you want to cover in the term.

Try to work together with other teacher to unify the contains.

Use the material there are at the school for teaching in incidental way.

Short term planing

Once long term is done, short term get easier

You can planing the lesson for one week or it will cover at least three lesson up ten

When you are a beginning teacher you can follow the lesson plan of experimented teachers while you are getting experience and you are getting able to discover and plan your own lessons.

Select what language items you are going to cover

Make sure you know the language items that you are going to cover.

Assessment is really important in the development of the knowledge of pupils.

Lesson planing

Decide how and when to use the group work.

Make the organization of the classroom as easy as possible

Link the lesson with the one before, and think about the one after.

The time of day is important, do not do noisy long excercises at 4 i'clock on Friday

Indicate how much time will take

Alway have more activities than you need.

You have extra time

Use one of the emergencie activities

Adapting in the context

An internal disturbance

If the class is already working individually or in pairs, then you can simply tell the other to get on with what they are doing and hope that they do.

someone of pupils bursts into tears or two of them start to fighting

You might take them out the classroom

An activity is too long

say that pupils can do this activity so well

Ask to finish the activity in home

Say you will come back to it in another day

decide to do this activity in another time to spend more time in it.

THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Puppets

Class mascot

Papers dolls

English corner

Cardboard board

Picture cards

Card games

Board games

Word /sentence cards

Language lessons are fully of variety and changes of each activity

did pupils learned what i wanted them learn?

We can ask this question over the time

At the end of the lesson we can check if we do all the things that we planed or if something is missing.

What to do when things go wrong

The enthusiasm of the students sometimes overflows.

They do wherever comes into their heads.

Their concentrations goes

everything will be fine as thing you planned.

An external disturbance

Kill the wasp or get it out of the room

Make use of it

The class is out of control

Use a calming activity

Like telling a story

Filling the words in a text

The activity does not work

the cassete player does not work

dont try to spend time trying to get it work