Katy's Stage one

a.  How important do you think a lesson plan is to a successful lesson? What features do you think a lesson plan should include?

I think to have everything organized in the classroom we as a teacher must have a guideline, and that guide is our class preparation, that is our plan to teach a lesson, if we have everything organized we will develop and obtain excellent results for our pupils. That’s way planning a lesson is very important before teaching.

PLANNING A LESSON

First:

Greeting to interact and “break fears” to get a small interaction between teacher-student and students-students.

Second:

•  Develop the context of the topic

 Well, we explain to the grammar using interactive ways for them to understand and make the class funny and entertainment.

Third:

•  Develop activities

After the grammar explanation the teacher will ask activities according to the grammar to their students, as a method to see if they catch the topic correctly.

Forth:

•  Conversation and interaction:

Develop short conversations about the topic to make them interact in English, in this way they will not be afraid to speak another language inside and outside the classroom. The teacher ask about questions and more questions, easy questions for example: where do you live? How old are you? In this way students will be enrolled with the language little by little.

Fifth:

• Evaluation and motivation (feedback)

This is the last part of a lesson, but I will develop not as an evaluation but as a review and students don’t realize that is an evaluation, it will be interactive among students-students and teacher-students.

In motivation teacher says about how the students did during the lessons and what they should improve to get the goals.

a.    Do you think it is a good idea to strictly follow a lesson plan? Why?

Well, it is and it is not because as a teacher we must have very qualities, we must be phycology, and understand our students; we must have strictly when it refers about the context, evaluations, responsibilities students must develop but we cannot lose our sense of human being, be strictly but kind and funny at the same time.

a.    Some people think that lesson plans severely restrict teachers’ creativity. Do you agree? Explain your answer.

No, I don’t agree with that because we can plan a lesson but we can use different strategies for grammar explanation, we can play, sing and have an interacting class, but of course we must write everything in our lesson plan.

As a result of this work it is concluded that the lesson plan is the guide of the teacher for the develop of the class, but, this can change through of the class for to make it this more creative and dynamic. All this influence in the improving of the learning of the students and the developed of the teacher.

                                                                                                                                 By: Katy Paola Castro