Lesson Plan Web Quest!!!

Designing a lesson plan

Introduction

You are a teacher working in a school / college.  You are teaching English to high school / college students.  You are very passionate about your job. You love experimenting with new techniques and technology in classroom teaching.

Task

Design a lesson plan to teach either one of these items: poem / a scene from a play/ short story/ prose / grammar / letter writing / any other language skill. Your lesson should make use of technology in classroom teaching. The lesson should require the technological component and should not be used as only an add-on for entertainment.

Process

1.    Read the following article about lesson plan to get a clear picture about the importance of lesson plan. Your lesson plan should be practically doable and should not exist only on paper.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17H0IYY0ICX4PUtdpRGJXal_jemRhf2PIqpVK2U9TdcU/edit?pli=1

http://teachandlearnwithgeorgia.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/the-importance-of-lesson-planning/

http://www.princeton.edu/~pia/TEFL.pdf

2.    Use the template given in the class blog for your lesson plan.

http://computeraidedlanguagelearning.blogspot.in/2014/10/lesson-plan-assignment.html

3.    Check this article to write your lesson objectives based on bloom’s taxonomy

http://www.okbu.edu/academics/natsci/ed/398/objectives.htm

http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/lessonplanning/lp_09.html - helps you in choosing the right vocabulary

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/j/jelinekd/EDTE%20116/116%2009-10/Writing%20learning%20objectives.pdf – this article gives input about learning objectives

4.    Read these webpage to get an idea about the components of a lesson plan

http://www.el-concilio.com/education/lessonComponents.htm

http://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/lesson-planning-components-of-a-lesson-plan/#.VD4COVcxiPg

5.    To get an idea about lesson plans, check out these samples

http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/writing/lesson-plans/

http://esl.about.com/od/grammarlessons/tp/debates.htm

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/sample-lesson-plan-new-teachers

Evaluation

(1)  Self Evaluation:

After you complete your lesson plan, using the rubric posted in the class blog do a self – evaluation of your lesson plan. Revise it based on your self evaluation.

          

http://computeraidedlanguagelearning.blogspot.in/2014/10/self-evaluation-peer-evaluation-rubric.html

After completing your lesson plan, post it in the respective section in the blog.

(2)  Peer Evaluation

Check two of your classmates’ lesson plans and give feedback in the comments section based on the evaluation rubric.

http://computeraidedlanguagelearning.blogspot.in/2014/10/self-evaluation-peer-evaluation-rubric.html

Conclusion

Based on the feedback given by your friends, revise your lesson plan and finally submit the hard copy to the teacher.

Along with the lesson plan, write a short essay on webquests based on the following articles and submit it for your assessment / assignment. 

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/webquests/index_sub3.html

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/webquests/

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech011.shtml