OBJECTIVES

Good lesson planning is an often invisible by absolutely essential part of all good teaching -especially effective language teaching The objectives of this unit are to help you...

1. Realize the value of planning lessons,
2. Gain an awareness of the elements common to good lesson plans, and
3. Create your own lesson plan "skeleton" or framework (to use when you teach ESL in the future).

• observe poorly planned and well planned lessons.

• analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these lessons.

After that you will... learn about elements common to good lesson plans, and see various formats for organizing these elements.

Then you will be ready to... create your own lesson plan format with the elements that fit your teaching purpose and style, and get feedback on this lesson plan.

Finally you will...

• review what you've learned, and
• learn about additional sources of information that will help you plan effective lessons when you teach.