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[eventually]

Would anyone be willing to help me create an example lesson plan for an application? I have experience tutoring ESL, but I'm going to be a new teacher. I would love it if someone could help me understand what they are looking for. Thank you!

[andrewchon]

Start by writing down:
0. Where English room
1. What time 1.20 pm
2. How long 40 min
3. What class grade 6-1
4. Level of Competancy beginer-intermediate
5. Approach eclectic/holistic/grammar/etc
6. text book pages ##-##
7. Resources needed song CD, ppt of flags of nations
8. lesson objective I am from Canada.

A. Warm up 5 min
B. Open to page ## 20 min
i. look and listen, understand?
ii. listen and repeat
C. Let's sing 10 min
if time left
D. Let's play 5min
if not
E. I am from Canada/vietnam

That's a barebones version of a lesson plan.

[YTMND]

[Skippy]

[andrewchon]

YTMND: as I said it is a bare bones version. Elementary grade 6 textbook lesson 1 is about learning the preposition 'from' in the context of meeting a new transfer student from Vietnam.

Some need lesson plan such as this because the co-teacher needs the info 0 to 8 and most co-teachers like to stick to the textbook.

Yes it needs more content but my co-teacher said it's past 5 PM and she wanted to go home.

[eventually]

[Luciddreamer]

[Skippy]

[eventually]

[Skippy]

Ya a good fix up will be fine with extra detail. It all depends on who looks at it. You might get a good look over (likely not), or just a quick glance (more likely). If it looks nice and set out. Most people are lazy or will go the path of least resistance.

[Carbon]

The impression I got was that you wanted someone to do it for you as well. Like many, I don't think you are as articulate as you may believe.

Anyhow, doesn't it scare you out that you are going to be a "teacher" and can't make a lesson plan on your own? One for the application - maybe it is more important to secure the position - but on a daily basis in your future, you will be doing this! Something you can't seem to do, and that doesn't give you pause for taking the position or at least motivate you to engage in some training? I find that funny and sad.

[thebektionary]

I really like to help people and was thinking that I could send you my lesson plan rubric but honestly, it would be too complicated to understand it without an explanation.

If your job requires you to make lesson plans and you don't know how to, I would advise against taking the job right now. Go take a TEFL course and then apply for another teaching job.

If you were in my room next to me now I could easily explain it, but it's just too complicated over the internet. It's something that you really have to be trained how to do properly. It's fairly easy, but you need instruction.

Basically, you have to think of a theme of the lesson. It could be "At the train station" or "My favorite things" or something like that. Then you have to start out with an introduction and a warm-up. You have to teach different sections at different times.. like you can start out with vocabulary. So for example, you teach the vocabulary and then you have a practice activity for them to do after you teach it. Then you move onto listening, or reading, or whatever. It's always teaching demonstration followed by a practice activity. Then at the end you do an activity that combines all of the things together that you just taught. Then you do a wrap-up and end the class. It is important that the students have a lot of talking time and that they are the ones participating most. Your talking time should be very little.

That's my TEFL class in a nutshell.

[Times30]

Is it the "Korean" template?

Where it has boxes that you fill out for a lesson plan with columns such as time, aim and objective (coincidentally almost being the same thing)?

If that's the case you want to build an "Ideal" lesson plan for the Korean teachers in which it's more about appearing to be well structured. While this isn't how you will teach... it would be more about appearances. Realistically it would be more like a mock lesson plan than an actual lesson plan.

Just as an example you would probably incorporate things like "Ask kids what the answer is". In real life, you wouldn't get any answers and would be spending time checking homework or something. For "ideal" lesson plans we (Korean teachers and I) would eliminate that stuff.

For the Korean lesson planning, try to be general with specifics in the boxes. In my personal experience they want generalities and more of the philosophy of methodology you are applying.

IE. Using grammar translation method when having the kids read.

[Tigerstyleone]

[andrewchon]