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Want your students to be enthused,? Then I’ve got a secret for you. It’s all in the lesson plan. ESL lesson plans are the cornerstone to teaching. What goes into a well-developed is an essential part of the classroom experience. Is just as important as your structure, giving your students an optimal learning environment. So how do you build an awesome lesson plan?

Senao 8310 phone. We’re glad you asked! Following the presentation, practice and production (PPP) template will help keep you on track, deliver new material effectively and most importantly, and confidence. What Makes an ESL Lesson Plan Exceptional? Relevant material Keeping your ESL lesson plans relevant is the golden rule for lesson plan success. Relevant material is often overlooked by new and veteran teachers alike. The importance you put on is essential in every stage of the lesson plan format.

Taking a few moments to gauge your student’s level, their interests, hobbies, will make developing your lesson plan easier. Plus, your students will stay engaged in the material if it’s relatable to their lives.

Clear aims and objectives First things first, what are your aims and objectives? Setting clear aims and objectives is the best way to begin your brainstorming. Having a good understanding of your main goal for the lesson (aims) and how you propose to reach that goal (objectives) will undoubtedly help in your lesson plan development.

Share aims and objectives It’s also a great idea to share your aims and objectives with your students, letting them know exactly what they will accomplish and the process they will undertake to get there. Communication with your class is very important.

Grading The ESL concept of grading is also an essential part of your lesson plan structure. (Careful, we’re not talking correcting work and giving letter grades here—this is a different “grading”). Grading is the concept of climbing a hill, starting off with something easy or relatable to your students and then climbing higher in the material, making it more challenging as you ascend. Put yourself in their shoes Put yourself in your students’ shoes while you are crafting your amazing lesson plan.

Ask yourself, how can I start small and build on each topic I present to maximize learning? Grading is a small piece of the ESL lesson plan formula, but when combined with a solid structure, the formula will be nothing less of spectacular for you and your students. PPP structure There are a few out there in the vast landscape of ESL lesson plan templates, but one tends to apex above all others.

Presentation, practice and production (PPP) is one of the the most used lesson plan formats in ESL. PPP allows you to develop a structured, graded and time efficient lesson plan that conveys the material in an understandable way for your students. PPP time pyramid Developing PPP structure can also be time sensitive. Think about PPP as a pyramid cut into 3 sections.

Presentation (P1) will be the tip of the pyramid, practice (P2) is in the middle and production (P3) is the base. If your class is 1 hour long, then your time breakdown will include 15 minutes of Presentation (P1), 20 minutes of practice (P2) and 25 minutes of production (P3).

You can see production has the largest amount of time allocated, since it is at the base. To speak or not to speak Within the PPP lesson plan, timing is often a key component: knowing when you should talk and with you and/or their classmates. One strategy ESL teachers use is marking time limits for each activity in the margins of the lesson plan sheet, giving you an idea of how long each activity should last. Presentation: Giving Your Students the Information to Succeed is the first step in the PPP lesson plan template, and is the most important. This is your time to shine, to convey the information you worked so hard preparing to your eager students. Presentation is the main part of teaching, where you will begin your grading process: presenting the new English material to your class and noting the time you have delegated for your presentation.

Teacher to student talk time Some call this the actual teaching period, and you will see that in P2-Practice and P3-Production you will teach less and observe more. Presentation time can vary depending on the time allotted for the class and how well the students pick up the new material. One key aspect to remember is that you will be doing most of the talking during presentation. Teachers should talk approximately 75% of the time during presentation. Introducing new material Introducing new material to your class is why you became a teacher, so remembering relevancy and grading, the first bit of new material should be something familiar to your students—possibly material discussed in a previous class. Sample presentation activity in your introduction. For example, if you are discussing items in the home, you could develop your presentation around photos from your home, noting different items associated with vocabulary as well as preposition use.