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The document provides guidance on creating an effective lesson plan in 3-6 sentences. It explains that a lesson plan should include the grade level, lesson topic, materials, and how the current lesson builds on previous instruction. The lesson plan should also describe the introduction including greetings/review and objectives, development through student-centered activities, and conclusion with evaluation and preview of the next lesson. Providing clear objectives, engaging introduction, hands-on activities, and review are emphasized as important components of an effective lesson.

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LessonPlanGuide PDF

The document provides guidance on creating an effective lesson plan in 3-6 sentences. It explains that a lesson plan should include the grade level, lesson topic, materials, and how the current lesson builds on previous instruction. The lesson plan should also describe the introduction including greetings/review and objectives, development through student-centered activities, and conclusion with evaluation and preview of the next lesson. Providing clear objectives, engaging introduction, hands-on activities, and review are emphasized as important components of an effective lesson.

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A Guide to Lesson Planning

MUST be a minimum of 2 full pages (single-spaced) and no more than 5 pages


including all attachments/materials.

This is meant to be a concise statement of what you will need to think about for each stage of a lesson plan
while you are putting it together. As you can find many examples of excellent lessons through your own
research, this will be a general statement and discussion on the lesson planning process.

The lesson plan you submit may be in a different format than the template provided. However, you will need
to include all information listed in the left hand column.

! Grade Level
The lesson plan should be for elementary school students. English in elementary school is taught from
3rd to 6th grade.

! Lesson Topic
For a particular topic, you normally should be planning (approximately) five different lessons, so the
unit or theme should be the same over those five lessons, e.g. Fruit, Transportation, Sports, etc.
For the EPIK application, you only need to create and submit ONE lesson (equal to one class
period) from a unit and any additional materials used for the lesson (worksheets, PPTs, links to
internet materials etc).

! Previous Class
You will need to briefly show how this lesson expands on the previously taught lesson. DELETE THE
INSTRUCTIONS IN THE APPLICATION FORM BEFORE FILLING IN THIS SECTION.

! Additional Handouts / Teaching Materials


Anything that you will use in the course your lesson should be listed here. Are you going to use a text, a
worksheet, video, something from the internet? Write it down and list where you got and where you can
find it again. Knowing how to access your materials again (especially if you need a URL) is pivotal to the
flow of your lesson and it will also help any future teachers who teach it.
The Introduction to your lesson will consist of, Greetings & Review, Class Arrangement and Presentation of
Objectives.

! Greetings and Review


This isnt just a space for you to write Hello or How are you? Its from this point where you set the entire
lesson. Engaging a class, getting them to think right away, and giving them the focus of the lesson is
what you should try to do in the greeting. Review could be an interactive question/answer about what you
did with the students last class, or it could be accomplished by showing the students some of the
material that you used last class to spark their memory. Most importantly, you should review what is
linked to the material that you will cover in the current lesson. Even if youre moving from fruit to
vegetables, you could still show them the flashcards from the former class and ask, Do you like fruit?
and follow it with, What food dont you like? to lead into vegetables.

! Class Arrangement
Will the students need to be in groups, pairs, or threes? Or, will you need to put something special on the
board or walls; something on the video screen, perhaps? This is where you would list the use of any
aids/materials that will be placed around the class, too.

! Presentation of Objectives
This can be done in many different ways, but its important that students know what they are going to
accomplish so that they are prepared to learn. A common spot on the black board that always has,
Today we will for the students to see what theyll be doing, or a Power Point slide of the days Key
Expressions to which the students can continually refer is acceptable. Its even acceptable to elicit the
objectives from the students to present them: After a review, asking, So, what do you think were going
to do today? (with a little prompting) will often result in the students outlining for each other what they
are going to work on.

The Development of your lesson is the most student centered part of the process. Therefore, all the
activities must be what the students are going to do. The teacher will definitely need to facilitate the activity,
but they must also stand back and let learning happen between the peer groups of the class.

Will the students do a mill drill an activity where class members must move around the class speaking to
other class members on a certain topic or will they play Go Fish with flashcards matching the topic of the
day? Will they act out a sport, or recite a recipe for the rest of the class to guess what theyre
playing/making? Will they have to do a running dictation going in and out of the class individually to listen
to a cassette for a limited amount of time to come back and tell their group so the whole script can be
recited by the entire group once all the members have put it together or will they create a sketch? This is
where you write it all down.

It might be the case that one activity is sufficient. For example, a game of Go Fish can be a lengthy process,
but if the first activity you have planned is a mill drill, a class of thirty-five (an average Korean class size) will
exhaust a short dialogue in about ten minutes, so make sure you have an idea of how long an activity will
last so you are prepared to use as many activities as necessary to reach your lesson objectives.

For the Conclusion, Summary & Closing, Evaluation of Objectives and what will be learned the next class
should be addressed.

! Summary & Closing


A good idea here is to go back to your Presentation of Objectives portion of the lesson and repeat what
was done here. If its on the board or a Power Point slide, the students should be able to say what the
Key Expressions were and identify what was achieved with an appropriate prompt, e.g. Whats your
favorite fruit? for the student to respond, My favorite fruit is.

! Evaluation of Objectives
Moving on from the Summary, once the students have re-visited the days objectives, they should be
able to demonstrate that they have reached your objectives by performing the dialogue, identifying one
of the cards from their game of Go Fish (and then asking for it the way they would have in the
Development), or reporting what the other groups showed them in a game of charades about, for
example, My Favorite Sport, saying, My favorite sport is and group ones favorite sport is ; and so
on .

! Next Class
Just as Greetings isnt about Hello, the Closing isnt about Good-bye. This is the most important
part of your next lesson because it is here where you let them know what youll be doing in the next
class. After praising the students for their performance in the Summary and Evaluation of Objectives,
you should tell them that next class theyll be continuing with more work on the days topic, or that theyll
be moving on to something different. If it is different, now would be a good time to see how much prior
knowledge that your students have by eliciting some of the vocabulary you might be using. Saying that
youll be looking at transport and getting them to list, car, plane, train, is a good finish and good
preparation. You will need to briefly show how the next lesson will expands on the lesson taught today.
DELETE THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE APPLICATION FORM BEFORE FILLING IN THIS SECTION.

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