Delivered to the F17 cohort of new college instructors at the Niagara College Part Time Teacher Development Program. This collection of slides deals with one of many lesson planning templates.

1. Effective Lesson Planning
Presented by Matt Sajn
(Academic and Liberal Studies
Division)

2. To start
• What keeps student engaged in a college
classroom?
o Clear, manageable outcomes (an end)
o Relevant material
o Engaging or fun activities (the means)
o A sense of structure
o The fact that the class is likely a prerequisite for
program completion

3. Who am I?
Matt Sajn
Professor of Communications - Academic and Liberal Studies Division
Twitter: @MattSajn
Instagram: @teachermatt
Email: msajn@niagaracollege.ca
Office: W307 (Glendale Campus)

4. Lesson Outcomes
• See the list of outcomes for the Part-Time Teacher Development Program
on the next slide? Which one or two of these best might suit a class on
effective lesson planning?

5. Lesson Outcomes
• Analyse the relationship between course outcomes, teaching
methodologies, and evaluation in curriculum.
• Maintain a positive and dynamic classroom environment that adheres to
principles of Universal Design for Learning.
• Use blackboard, educational technology and web 2.0 tools to support active
learning.
• Apply the theories of adult learning in order to enhance teaching and
learning.

6. What is BOPPPS?
• Bridge: How will you capture the interest of your students?
• Outcomes: What is the point of the lesson?
• Pre-Test: How will you gauge how much your audience already knows about
your topic?
• Participatory Learning: How will you lead your students to the course
outcome(s)?
• Post-Assessment: How to gauge whether students have met outcomes?
• Summary: What sort of final message do you want to leave students with?

7. Pre-Test
Work in groups to come up with a collection of concerns or issues concerning lesson plan
development at a post-secondary level.
I.e. Time Management

8. Lesson
Planning
Concerns
Timing
What if I don’t have
enough material to cover
a three hour lesson?
What if I don’t have enough
time?

9. Participatory Learning
1. From the list of topics on your table, select one which you would like to use
to explore the BOPPPS structure.
2. I will assign you one part of the BOPPPS structure. Try to come up with an
activity or a list of activities that might fit this part. For example, a bridge
for this lesson might be a youtube video in which a terrible learning
experience is acted out.
3. We will discuss possible lesson ideas.

10. Post-Assessment
• Select one person to share your topic, your BOPPPPS area, and your
activity/activities
• Did we point out any strengths or weaknesses with this method?
• What are some of the other ways we might gauge audience understanding
here?
• Exit slips or collecting written work; Kahoot.it or poll everywhere; targeted questioning, etc.

11. Summary
• Please contact me with any additional questions! See my contact
information on blackboard, or tweet @MattSajn.
• Connect: The folks at CAE are true experts in this field, and always have
open doors.
• Reflect: BOPPPS is just one of the thousands of ways to conduct a lesson.
Whether or not you use it, keep student learning at the center of it all.