The document discusses the benefits and components of daily lesson planning for teachers. It outlines several benefits of lesson planning, including improving reflective teaching, preparing teachers for their lessons, and helping teachers set and achieve objectives. The document also describes key components of effective lesson plans such as dividing class time into sections, designing activities for each section, considering timing and alternative activities, and specifying aims, aids/materials, and interaction patterns. Reflection on lesson plans before and after teaching is emphasized as important for improving future lesson planning.

1. Planning Lessons
By: H. Pournemat

2. Daily Lesson Planning
Lesson Plans can be of great value for:
- improving reflective teaching
- administrators to reassure parents that their
children’s teachers are well-prepared.
- a substitute teacher
- others …

3. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It builds confidence.

4. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It helps you prepare for the
lesson: Material, Time, and
activities

5. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It provides you with a
guide during the lesson.

6. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It helps you set objectives and
assure yourself to achieve them.

7. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It helps you provide different kinds of
activities for different learning styles.

8. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It provides you with options if you
find that your initial planning is not
working.

9. Daily Lesson Planning
Other Benefits:
It gives something to reflect on for
future planning.

10. Reflection Time!
1. What’s your idea about preparing
lesson plans?
2. How far were they effective in your
teaching?
3. How far do you reflect on your lesson
plans before and after the class?
4. How reflection-on-action can improve
your lesson plans?

11. Lesson Plan Components
Step One: Divide your class time into 10 to 15 minute sections.
Step two: Put a particular stage in each section.
Step three: Design techniques and practices for each stage.
Step four: Think about alternative activities.

12. Lesson Plan Components
Timing
- Time of each activity should be set
sensible.
- To improve time management, you need
to reflect on the efficiency of each
activity time to see whether it was
enough or not.

13. Lesson Plan Components
Procedures
It’s the overall picture of each part:
- Revision
- Dictation
- Conversation: talking about their families
- Vocabulary: Descriptive adjectives
- …

14. Lesson Plan Components
Stage aims
1. What is the stage?
Warm-up, Presentation, Practice, Production,…
2. What is the aim of this stage?
introducing new vocabulary, fluency practice,
describing things, asking for direction, focus
on accuracy, give them more opportunity to talk
and focus more on fluency, …
.

15. Lesson Plan Components
Aids and Materials
Flash cards
Worksheets
CD Player
Realia: apple, pen, pencil, …
……

16. Lesson Plan Components
Interaction Pattern
Individual work
Pair-work
Group work
Standing work
Pair-work (New Partner)
……..

17. Be The Best You Can Be!
The BEST teachers teach from
the HEART, not from the book.