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Planning - are you ready for action?
Effective lesson planning takes a bit of thought at first but once you’ve done a couple of hundred lessons and got some routines and patter down you will not need to go through this process. By that time it should be on automatic pilot. As I said before while talking about stress, good planning can go along way to preventing lots of problems in the class.
First steps
Effective planning starts well before the lesson. Once you’ve consulted the schemes of work and you know what subject its about its time to start planning.
Work out the objective or learning outcomes what for your lesson. I like to make this into a sentence that I can later put on the board to keep me and the kids focused on our goal. For example. By the end of theirs lesson you should know……………..
Once this has been established you can think about the structure of the lesson. Most lessons will follow a set routine:
The start,the middle and the end .
Within this frame you need to fit in:
Some sort of starter or introduction
some learning activities
A summary or plenary activities.
In practice I like to be quite fluid with this framework because sometimes you need to be flexible with the clientele! Some of my lower ability groups (below gcse) are not going to settle with a starter and respond more to the routine of , come in, sit down, be quiet while I take the register. Like I said, I make up my own rules which are governed by what works for me and my individual classes. You might like to experiment with your own strategies.
Have some routines in place
If you have a good set of classroom management routines in place, you will find kids respond better than if you let them go free form. For instance I like to get my classes lined up outside the room, in silence, listening to me as I remind them of the routine for coming into the room. This sounds a bit old fashioned or dictatorial but 9 times out of 10 ,my lessons get off to much better start following this routine. The kids know where they stand.Literally! This structure can be really important particularly with behaviorally challenged pupils. I have seen some kids go into classes like a group of monkeys on acid. Their teachers then need to work really hard for their money.
Check out some of my classroom routines. Take them or leave them. Come up with your own!
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