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[Baribari]

Can someone give me some advice as to how to go about creating a 30-minute lesson plan.

I'm not entirely sure what is actually supposed to be in a lesson plan, or how much should be in there to make it take 30 minutes to give.

[Squire22]

Quite possibly the vaguest question to hit the board.

I'm going to have to assume you mean a lesson plan for Japanese students - this being the Japan board - but other than that....

Give us some clues, age, type of school, number of students, topics....

Are you creating a lesson plan to be used or to be evaluated by a potential employer?

[Baribari]

Yes, for evaluation.

I kind of posted in the Japan forum by accident.

I'm still confused as to what a lesson plan contains in terms of the formatting, etc...

And how much information should it contain to be a "30 minute" plan.

[Squire22]

If it is for evaluation then you should think about including the following:
- the target language and vocabulary for the lesson
- the aim of the lesson - what you would like the students to achieve by the end
- materials that you will use - flashcards, cd, stereo, boardmarkers etc.
- what you are going to do, exactly what you are going to do, step by step, e.g. if you are going to show the students a flashcard and get them to repeat the word, write down "Show students the flashcard and elicit repetitoin" Be specific.
- what you want/hope the students will do at each stage e.g. using the above example you would add something like "Students repeat ...."
- have clearly defined activities, warm up, introduction, activities, review.
- try to clearly define the time for each of these clearly defined activities. This will help with your 30 minute issue. Make these activities and their time scales clear by writing them in your lesson plan.

You can format your lesson plan in any style you wish so long as when someone looks at it and reads it, it is clear and concise and not confusing. I would also leave a section at the bottom for notes and comments because after the lesson you might want to revise your plan.

I hope that is of some help to you.

Regards.

[Kootvela]

The easiest for me is to fill in a table:

Time/ Aims/ Stage and Procedure/ Focus (teacher-student, student-student,etc)/