WORKSHOP
“Planning and managing lesson ”
Tazovsky,
March, 2016
Workshop Aim
To introduce variety of ideas
how to use different activities
and recourses to plan and
manage an English lesson
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, the trainees will be
able:
• to create a “road map” of classroom activities,
starting with the final destination, or learning
objective, in mind.
• • to design group work activities using some
useful methods and techniques;
• to apply new material in their work.
• Participants will get tools and techniques for
getting students to be focused and motivated.
Workshop stages
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Warming-up
Rules of writing lesson plan
Organizing discussion of the videos
Relaxation
Stages of the lesson
Organizing group work
Reflection
Meet your trainers
Task 1
You will hear 10 sentences about your
trainers. Four sentences are about one
trainer and four about the other trainer.
Can you decide which sentences are
about which trainer? Discuss your ideas
with a partner.
1. She has got a big family
6. She doesn’t eat sweets
2. Her dream in her childhood
was to be a tram driver.
7.She has never been abroad.
3. She does jogging every day.
8. She is a vegetarian.
4. She knows three foreign
languages.
5. She likes fishing.
9. She has got a car license
10. She has never sung karaoke
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G – good wife
A – active
L- lucky
I – interested in baking bread
N –nice mother
A – attractive
Task 2
Work in groups.
Discuss and write down some
important rules that you think should
guide the trainer and trainees from the
start to end of the workshop or
training course.
Draw a suitcase on a piece of paper.
Divide the suitcase into 4 parts.
• In the first part write about your experience
that you think is relevant to the training.
• In the second part write about your
expectations of the training.
• In the third part write what the main
challenges in your teacher’s practice are (by teaching
students) .
• Leave the fourth part of the suitcase empty.
You will come back to this at the end of the training.
My experience
My expectations
My questions and concerns
Have your students ever looked
boring at the lesson?
Have you ever been tired of the
lesson more than usual?
Then you may be suffering from a lack
of good lesson planning !
Agree or Disagree…
I write a lesson plan for my class
every single day.
• Nothing ever goes according to my
plan, so I don’t write lesson plans.
• I know how to write an organized
and effective lesson plan!
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Brainstorm
What is the purpose of a lesson plan?
The stages of the lesson plan
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General Information
Date
Class
Student Level
Unit Title
Lesson Title
Duration of Class
Reflection: – What do you need to
know/consider when creating a lesson
plan?
Know your Students!
Know your Resources!
Know your Content!
Relaxation
Pass the ball
1. Use two balls for this game.
2. Ask the participants to stand up in two lines of equal
length, facing each other.
3. Give one ball to the first person in each line of the
group.
4. It is a race to pass the ball down the line.
There are some rules:
5. Don’t hold the ball with the hands.
6. The ball can’t touch the floor.
7. The group that passes the ball to the last person in
their line will win.
THANK YOU VERY
MUCH!
Objective*
• • Determine what you want the students to
be able to know and do by the end of the
lesson.
• • Make it measurable and specific.
• • Don’t keep it a secret!
• • *More on this later!
Materials
• • Make sure you anticipate what materials you
and your students will need. • Make sure to
organize and prepare all of those materials
before class.
Procedure
• • Write the steps that you and your students
will follow, keeping your objective in mind all
along the way. • Write down the timing you
anticipate for each activity.
Make a list of main problems.
What are the main challenges in your teacher’s
practice ?
Learning Outcome:
• the trainees will be able to use new
techniques and activities with groups of
learners
Task 2
What kinds of problems can arise in
the English language classroom?
Here are some of the common problems which
teachers have to deal with in
the English language classroom.
• Discipline
• Motivation
• Range of levels
• Covering materials
• Organising activities
Task 5
You have a boy in your class who doesn’t pay
attention to you. What is the problem? What
do you do?
Task 6
Can you think of three reasons why
the boy might be behaving in such a
way?
Here are a few possible reasons:• the lesson is too easy and they are bored
• they don’t understand what they are
supposed to do
• the lesson is too difficult and they need help