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Importance of Lesson Planning for Effective Teaching

This lecture reviews the importance of teacher's preparation and lesson planning, including clear aims, procedure, and record-keeping. It examines practical constraints, influences on lesson content, student needs, motivation, and the role of syllabus and exams.

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Importance of Lesson Planning for Effective Teaching

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  1. Lesson Plan: part # 2 Lecture # 8

  2. Review of Lecture # 7 • Teacher’s preparation is a must for a teacher. • Lesson plan reflects teacher’s preparation. • A clear and explicit presentation of aims and the procedure by which they are achieved. • Preparing a checklist: what and where to teach? • Time line for each Stage (3P’s) • A Record for Future Reference and Re-use. • Aims • Aids; Anticipated Problems; Concept; Procedure

  3. Influences on the Content of the Lesson • Students’ views

  4. Influences on the Content of the Lesson • Despite the enormous variety of published material and teaching aids at the disposal of language teachers; • There are a number of factors which can severely restrict their freedom of choice of techniques and materials for a particular lesson. • In general terms, these stem from the physical teaching situations, the nature of the students, the influences of an organization in determining a syllabus and the way in which people are understood to learn language.

  5. Practical Constraints • Time • Frequency of Lessons • The time of day • The number of students • Availability of aids

  6. The Teacher • Personality of teacher • For some teachers role play is an important methodological repertoire…for others it is an unknown area full of risks…. • Attitude of a teacher

  7. The Students • The need of the students • Students’ present level of English • Age and interests of the students • Students’ language learning background • Attitude and personality of students • Mixed-ability classes

  8. Motivation and the Maintenance of interest • Context • Relevance and Meaningfulness of lesson • Motivation and interest

  9. The Influences of Syllabus and Exams • Student needs→ Syllabus →aims of lesson→ lesson procedure→achievement of lesson aims→achievement of syllabus objectives→satisfaction of students’ needs

  10. Summary • So we discussed in this lecture • Despite the enormous variety of published material and teaching aids at the disposal of language teachers; • There are a number of factors which can severely restrict their freedom of choice of techniques and materials for a particular lesson. • In general terms, these stem from the physical teaching situations, the nature of the students, the influences of an organization in determining a syllabus and the way in which people are understood to learn language. • Time ; Frequency of Lessons ; The time of day ;The number of students Availability of aids • The teacher • The students and motivation

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