A PRE-SESSION TASK FOR LESSON
PLANNING
Ruth Hamilton
Pre-session task
Please think/make notes about the following 5 questions before the first session
on Lesson Planning:
1. What are your main teaching principles or beliefs?
2. What is your current approach to lesson planning?
3. What should a DELTA lesson plan include?
When you have answered this question, check how
complete your answer is HERE.
4. How do you write your lesson plans at the moment?
Please bring an example along to the session with you.
5. The course requirements include 10 hours' observation of
teachers.
What do you hope to learn/gain by observing these teachers' classes?
Follow-up reading
Scrivener, J. (1994) 'Learning Teaching' (Chapter 5)
Harmer, J. (2001) 'The Practice of English Language Teaching'.