EXAMPLE LESSON PLAN

"How To Create An Amazing Lesson Plan"

A lesson plan is the teachers’s road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. Then, you can design appropriate learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. Having a carefully constructed lesson plan for each hours lesson allows you to enter the classroom with more confidence and maximizes your chance of having a meaningful learning experience with your students.

A successful lesson plan addresses and integrates three key components:
  • Learning Objectives
  • Learning activities
  • Assessment to check for student understanding
A lesson plan provides you with a general outline of your teaching goals, learning objectives, and means to accomplish them. A productive lesson is not one in which everything goes exactly as planned, but one in which both students and teacher learn from each other.
 



BEFORE CLASS: STEPS FOR PREPARING A LESSON PLAN.

1. Identify the learning objectives
Before you plan your lesson, you will first need to identify the learning objectives for the lesson. A learning objective describes what the learner will know or be able to do after the learning experience rather than what the learner will be exposed to during the instruction. Typically, it is written in a language that is easily understood by students and clearly related to the program learning outcomes.

2. Plan the specific learning activities
When planning learning activities you should consider the types of activities students will need to engage in, in order to develop the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate effective learning in the course. Learning activities should be directly related to the learning objectives of the course, and provide experiences that will enable students to engage in, practice, and gain feedback on specific progress towards those objectives.

As you plan your learning activities, estimate how much time you will spend on each. Build in time for extended explanation or discussion, but also be prepared to move on quickly to different applications or problems, and to identify strategies that check for understanding. 

3. Plan to assess student understanding
Assessments (tests, papers, problem sets, performances) provide opportunities for students to demonstrate and practice the knowledge and skills articulated in the learning objectives, and for instructors to offer targeted feedback that can guide further learning. In short, planning for assessment allows you to find out whether your students are learning.

4. Plan to sequence the lesson in an engaging and meaningful manner.

Gain attention: 
  • Obtain students’ attention so that they will watch and listen while the instructor presents the learning content. 
  • Utilize ice breaker activities, current news and events, case studies, YouTube videos, and so on.
  • The objective is to quickly grab student attention and interest in the topic.
  • Inform learner of objectives: Allow students to organize their thoughts regarding what they are about to see, hear, and/or do.
Stimulate recall of prior knowledge: 
  • Help students make sense of new information by relating it to something they already know or something they have already experienced. 
  • Ask students about their understanding of previous concepts.
  • Present new content: Utilise a variety of methods including lecture, readings, activities, projects, multimedia, and others.
Practice: 
  • Allow students to apply knowledge and skills learned. Allow students to apply knowledge in group or individual activities.
  •  Ask deep-learning questions, make reference to what students already know or have students collaborate with their peers.
DURING THE CLASS: PRESENTING YOUR LESSON PLAN
Letting your students know what they will be learning and doing in class will help keep them more engaged and on track.  You can share your lesson plan by writing a brief agenda on the whiteboard or telling students explicitly what they will be learning and doing in class. 

AFTER THE CLASS: REFLECTING ON YOUR LESSON PLAN
Take a few minutes after each class to reflect on what worked well and why, and what you could have done differently. Identifying successful and less successful organization of class time and activities would make it easier to adjust to the contingencies of the classroom. If needed, revise the lesson plan. 

Examples Lesson Planning.




Bibliography:
https://cte.smu.edu.sg/approach-teaching/integrated-design/lesson-planning



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