What to include in your lesson plan and your reflections on your lesson
Lesson plan
- Time of the lesson
- Place
- Grade
- Number of students (boys/girls)
- Proficiency level
- Focus of the lesson
- Aims (What is it that the students will be able to do at the end of the
class that they were not able to do at the beginning of the class?)
- Skills developed
- List of tasks/activities and estimated time
- Materials
- Assessment of students
- Homework
Reflections on your
lesson
- What did you do to get and maintain students’ attention?
- How did you manage to motivate them?
- How did you tie lesson objectives with students’ interests?
- What was the classroom atmosphere like?
- How did the tasks/activities work?
- How did you manage to keep the time?
- How did students interact?
- How many students were involved?
- How did they understand instructions?
- On what occasions (if any) did you or your students use Hungarian?
- How did you vary work formats (individual, frontal, pair, group work)?
- How did you provide feedback to students to correct their
misunderstandings and scaffold and reinforce their learning? What did students
learn in the lesson?
- What are the main points for your next lesson?
Some ideas for focused observation: what do these focal points comprise? How can you tell good practice from bad practice?
- Classroom atmosphere
- Students’ motivation and attitudes
- Teacher’s personality and behaviour, rapport with
students
- How does the teacher motivate the students?
- Task types (meaning-focused, form-focused)
- Skills development (which skill and subskill)
- Organizing work (group-work, peer-work, individual
work, frontal work)
- Materials used
- Integrating content and language in tasks
- Teacher’ questions
- Teacher / student talking time
- Teachers’ language use (suitable for learners’
level, code-switching)
- Students’ language use
- How do teacher and students treat errors?
- How does teacher evaluate and assess learners?
- How does teacher handle learners’ individual
differences?
- Quantity and quality of homework