Your assignment task:

This assignment aims to develop and assess your ability to:

Produce learning aims and objectives that are appropriate for lesson type and class level.

Produce lesson plans that are appropriate for lesson type and class level.

Produce resources that are appropriate for a specified class.

Apply relevant reflective practice models when writing personal reflections for learning and teaching.

Plan a lesson stage in which students are led to analyse the target language.

Use language that is appropriate for a specified class when teaching new language.

Download your files:

To complete Assignment A, you are provided with models, templates, and a checklist to refer to prior submission.

Before you start to work on your assignment, you need to download the files and save them in a folder you can access. You will find these files further down the page.

AssignmentA_Step1_ModelLessonPlan

AssignmentA_Step1_LessonPlanTemplate

AssignmentA_Step2_ModelLessonPlan

AssignmentA_Step2_OnlineLessonPlanTemplate

AssignmentA_Step3_PersonalReflectionGibbs_Model Answer

AssignmentA_Step3_PersonalReflectionGibbsTemplate

AssignmentA_Checklist

Here is the case study for this assignment:

Case Study

You have been successful at your job interview and have landed a brand new job in Thailand! In your new role, you are working in a small community school supporting an experienced teacher with lesson planning and creating activities. The experienced teacher is also helping you to build your teaching skills by supervising you while you practise.

The class you are working with is a small group of 12 students aged between 10 and 12 years of age. The students meet twice a week to build their English language skills and follow a planned curriculum. They are currently working at A2 language level.

Your school has identified some other students in the same age group who are in the wider community and aren’t able to travel to the school due to transport limitations. They have decided that it would be a great idea to offer these students the opportunity to follow the same planned curriculum online, without having to travel to the school.

To test if this idea would work, you have been asked to take part in a trial under  the experienced teacher’s supervision. They know that you have recently completed your Level 3 TEFL Certificate and that you have lots of ideas you would like to try out!

To complete this assignment follow these steps:

 Step 1: Create a face-to-face PPP lesson plan

1.1 Open the file AssignmentA_Step1_LessonPlanTemplate that you downloaded at the beginning of the assignment.

You will see in the lesson plan template that the information about the group and the anticipated problems have already been completed.

You will need to add one aim and three objectives to the lesson plan that are appropriate for this group and lesson.

You will also include your bibliography at the end of this lesson plan.

1.2 Produce a lesson plan based on the past continuous tense for interrupted actions for the group of students identified in the case study. For example, “I was talking on the phone when the pizza delivery arrived”. The lesson must be 60 minutes long and the plan should be detailed enough so that it could be read and understood by another teacher.

You must ensure that your lesson plan includes the following separate stages:

Warmer: introduce the theme and create a context of the lesson.

Presentation: Present the past continuous to the students in a way that leads them to analyse the language through eliciting and concept checking.

Practice stage: Present one task that allows the students to practice the language in a controlled way, focusing on accuracy.

Production stage: Present one task that allows the students to practice the target language in a freer way and develop fluency.

Plenary: Bring the lesson to a close by checking understanding by asking concept checking questions.

1.3 Find or create resources that could be used in the lesson that are appropriate for the age, language level and background of the students. To help you, it would  be a good idea to refer back to the CEFR levels described in Unit 2. You must remember to include the actual resource in your submission in the materials file. Also, remember to reference any resources you find in the bibliography section of your lesson plan.

14. Use language that is appropriate for a specified class when teaching new language:

In the warmer include two instruction checking questions.

In the presentation include two examples of eliciting questions and two concept checking questions.

In the practice stage include two instruction checking questions.

In the production stage include two instruction checking questions.

In the plenary include three eliciting questions.

Ensure that the language in the questions is appropriate for the age, language level and background of the students. The questions must be presented as direct speech, for example, “What is your name?”

 Step 2: Create an online PPP lesson plan

2.1 Your next step is to adapt the face-to-face PPP lesson plan you created in Step 1 to create an online PPP lesson plan. You can use the online lesson plan template that you downloaded earlier: AssignmentA_Step2_OnlineLessonPlanTemplate

Your lesson plan must follow the same structure as your face-to-face lesson and is also a 60-minute class.

Make suitable adaptations that allow for technical considerations relating to functions available in an online classroom environment.

Ensure that online activities are interactive and learner-centred.

Your resources must clearly show that they are for an online class.

2.2 Remember to include all the actual resources you would use in this lesson in your materials file and include URLs.

 Step 3: Reflective practice

3.1 To support your development as a teacher, you are now asked to write a reflective account based on your experience of creating a lesson plan for a face-to-face class and then adapting this for online teaching.

3.2 Use Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1988) as the structure for your reflective account using the headings and questions in the table below to support your writing. You can use the previously downloaded template file for this. AssignmentA_Step3_PersonalReflectionGibbsTemplate

Heading Answer this question

1. Description How did you create the lesson plans? What factors did you consider when planning the lessons?

2. Feelings How did you feel during the process?

3. Evaluation What went well and what didn’t go so well in the lesson plan creation process?

4. Conclusions What did you learn about yourself in the process?

5. Action What would you do differently next time?