WORKSHOP “Planning and managing lesson ” Tazovsky, March, 2016

Workshop Aim To introduce variety of ideas how to use different activities and recourses to plan and manage an English lesson

Learning Outcomes By the end of the workshop, the trainees will be able: to create a “road map” of classroom activities, starting with the final destination, or learning objective, in mind. to design group work activities using some useful methods and techniques; to apply new material in their work. Participants will get tools and techniques for getting students to be focused and motivated.

Workshop stages Warming-up Rules of writing lesson plan Organizing discussion of the videos Relaxation Stages of the lesson Organizing group work Reflection

Meet your trainers Task 1 You will hear 10 sentences about your trainers. Four sentences are about one trainer and four about the other trainer. Can you decide which sentences are about which trainer? Discuss your ideas with a partner.

1. She has got a big family6. She doesn’t eat sweets 2. Her dream in her childhood was to be a tram driver. 7.She has never been abroad. 3. She does jogging every day.8. She is a vegetarian. 4. She knows three foreign languages. 9. She has got a car license 5. She likes fishing.10. She has n ever sung karaoke

G – good wife A – active L- lucky I – interested in baking bread N –nice mother A – attractive

Task 2 Work in groups. Discuss and write down some important rules that you think should guide the trainer and trainees from the start to end of the workshop or training course.

Draw a suitcase on a piece of paper. Divide the suitcase into 4 parts. In the first part write about your experience that you think is relevant to the training. In the second part write about your expectations of the training. In the third part write what the main challenges in your teacher’s practice are (by teaching students). Leave the fourth part of the suitcase empty. You will come back to this at the end of the training.

My experienceMy questions and concerns My expectations

Have your students ever looked boring at the lesson? Have you ever been tired of the lesson more than usual? Then you may be suffering from a lack of good lesson planning !

Agree or Disagree… I write a lesson plan for my class every single day. Nothing ever goes according to my plan, so I don’t write lesson plans. I know how to write an organized and effective lesson plan!

Brainstorm What is the purpose of a lesson plan?

The stages of the lesson plan General Information Date Class Student Level Unit Title Lesson Title Duration of Class

Reflection: – What do you need to know/consider when creating a lesson plan? Know your Students! Know your Resources! Know your Content!

Relaxation Pass the ball 1.Use two balls for this game. 2.Ask the participants to stand up in two lines of equal length, facing each other. 3. Give one ball to the first person in each line of the group. 4. It is a race to pass the ball down the line. There are some rules: 5. Don’t hold the ball with the hands. 6. The ball can’t touch the floor. 7. The group that passes the ball to the last person in their line will win.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Objective* Determine what you want the students to be able to know and do by the end of the lesson. Make it measurable and specific. Don’t keep it a secret! *More on this later!

Materials Make sure you anticipate what materials you and your students will need. Make sure to organize and prepare all of those materials before class.

Procedure Write the steps that you and your students will follow, keeping your objective in mind all along the way. Write down the timing you anticipate for each activity.

Make a list of main problems. What are the main challenges in your teacher’s practice ?

Learning Outcome: the trainees will be able to use new techniques and activities with groups of learners

Task 2 What kinds of problems can arise in the English language classroom?

Here are some of the common problems which teachers have to deal with in the English language classroom. Discipline Motivation Range of levels Covering materials Organising activities Task 5 You have a boy in your class who doesn’t pay attention to you. What is the problem? What do you do?

Task 6 Can you think of three reasons why the boy might be behaving in such a way? Here are a few possible reasons:- the lesson is too easy and they are bored they don’t understand what they are supposed to do the lesson is too difficult and they need help