Lesson Planning and Materials

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LESSON PLANNING AND MATERIALS
Ashly and Jaime
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Team Teaching

• Remember youre not alone!
• Communication is key
• Talk with your JTE as much as possible
• If in doubt, ask your JTE about grammar points,
  lesson plans or any unclear information
• Help each other
• JTE Expert about students and teaching
• ALT Expert about native English

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Keep In Mind When Planning

• 4 Skills of Language Learning
• Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading
• Your Students
• Level, Learning Styles
• Your Class
• Size, Time, Atmosphere
• Relevance/Objective
• Progression of Studies

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Keep In Mind When Planning

• Appropriateness
• Age, level, culturally
• Anticipated Problems and Solutions
• Clarity of Instructions
• Keep it simple!
• Necessary Materials
• Do you or your JTE need to prepare anything
  special?
• Logical Use of Language

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Basic Lesson Structure

1. Greetings
2. Warm-up
3. Lesson Introduction / Dialogue
4. Explanation / Practice
5. Activity / Activities
6. Wrap Up

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Greetings and Warm Up

• Greetings
• Good morning/Good afternoon!
• How are you?
• What day is it? / Whats the date? / Hows the
  weather?
• Warm Up
• Get them thinking in English!
• 5 - 15 minutes
• Review material or general games

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Lesson Introduction / Dialogue

• Dialogue/Skit between JTE and ALT
• JHS Ask students target questions
• Grammar Point I like
• ALT says I like tennis. What sport do you
  like?

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Explanation / Practice

• Explanation of Vocabulary/Grammar
• JHS JTE will probably take charge
• Elementary ALT or HRT
• Practice of Pronunciation
• Repetition
• Songs Chants
• ALT can give example sentences
• ALT asks students questions

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Activity/Activities

• English Instructions Demo with JTE
• Keep it simple
• Remember 4 Skills, Progression of Studies, etc.
• Okay to reuse same activity
• Change the rules a little new game!
• Make it fun!

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Wrap Up

• JHS Quick re-cap of the language studied
• Homework (if any)
• Usually issued by JTE
• Farewell Greeting

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Common Teaching Materials

• Big flash cards
• Introduce vocabulary
• Touch game
• Missing game
• Keyword game

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Common Teaching Materials

• Small flash cards
• Point and shoot game
• Matching game
• Lucky card game

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Common Teaching Materials

• CDs
• English songs
• Hello Song
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes
• London Bridge

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Common Teaching Materials

• Worksheets
• Betting Game
• Who Am I? Game

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Common Teaching Materials

• Toys

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First things first!

• Take inventory of the materials you already have!
• YOU HAVE FREE TIME BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS!!!
• Use it wisely
• Alphabetize your cards
• Make a catalogue of available materials (esp.
  multiple schools)
• If you have set lesson plans, check to see if you
  have the materials necessary of each lesson
• If not

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Make your own materials!

• Card program

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Make your own materials!

• Your imagination is the limit!
• Cards are probably the most commonly used
  teaching material, but you can make different
  materials such as
• SANTA FUKUWARAI ??????
• (Japanese Pin the Tail on the Donkey)

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Make your own materials!

• English Boards are great for creativity as well!
• Caution Ask JTE before spending more than a few
  hundred yen on English Board, teaching materials,
  etc.

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Purchasing Materials

• You have the option of purchasing materials
  (games like this Surprise Gorilla) however, ask
  ahead of timesome schools may reimburse you!

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Create to your hearts content!

• Especially if you have ample amounts of free
  time, explore your schools craft materials
• BW and Color Printers
• Laminators
• Image enlarger
• Markers
• Paint
• Glue
• Construction paper
• If you are not an Arts Crafts kind of person,
  get creative on the computer (esp. images of
  famous people are popular)

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General Tips

• Be prepared!
• Write out a lesson plan for yourself
• Make a checklist of materials you need for each
  class
• Be flexible!
• Last minute changes are often necessary
• The same activity may not work for every class
• Be energetic!
• Lead by example, students will follow
• Try to have fun and let the students have fun