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Essential Guide to Lesson Planning, The: Practical Skills for Teachers
The Essential Guide to Lesson Planning is an invaluable resource that will enable you to plan foolproof lessons, combining effective learning with build-in behaviour management. Whether you are an NQT, an ITT student or a more experienced teaching professional, this book will show you how planning a good lesson can be quick and simple and lead to successful learning whoever your students are.
Written by an award-winning researcher and experienced Advanced Skills Teacher, this book is packed with tips including:
- How to ensure good behaviour through lesson planning
- How to use learning objectives to maximum effect
- How to write quick and successful lessons
- How to incorporate homework into a lesson
- How to address assessment for learning in every lesson
- How to use reward systems to keep student motivation high
- How to meet the needs of individual students; SEN and G&T
- How to write an effective plenery
- How to reflect on learning at the end of a lesson
Accompanying this book is a website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/walker with resources to adapt for your individual teaching needs to aid lesson planning, such as:
- Starter activity templates
- Plenery activity templates
- ACE cards for motivation
- Bell work activity templates
- Assessment for Learning student guidelines
(Taken from blurb)
Written by an award-winning researcher and experienced Advanced Skills Teacher, this book is packed with tips including:
- How to ensure good behaviour through lesson planning
- How to use learning objectives to maximum effect
- How to write quick and successful lessons
- How to incorporate homework into a lesson
- How to address assessment for learning in every lesson
- How to use reward systems to keep student motivation high
- How to meet the needs of individual students; SEN and G&T
- How to write an effective plenery
- How to reflect on learning at the end of a lesson
Accompanying this book is a website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/walker with resources to adapt for your individual teaching needs to aid lesson planning, such as:
- Starter activity templates
- Plenery activity templates
- ACE cards for motivation
- Bell work activity templates
- Assessment for Learning student guidelines
(Taken from blurb)
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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August 22, 2012
This book is what it claims to be. It is an essential guide to lesson planning.
As a trainee teacher about to embark upon my first year in the classroom, I bought this book hoping it would help me through the trials of planning my English lessons.
The book is aimed at all teachers, whether new to the profession or established, whether Primary, Secondary or beyond, not matter the subject. That said, it is the English/Welsh education system it refers to, though even teachers from other countries can glean fantastic wisdom and techniques from within its pages.
It is slim and easy to carry (though a bit wide) and is stylishly designed, but more importantly it is accessible in its style, and the layout makes it easy to flick through and pick up pointers. It practices what it preaches, with each chapter having 'lesson objectives' at the start and the end summarising what has been explained/learnt and giving tips for further study.
Having read this, I now feel much more prepared to plan my lessons and having it by my side when planning means I'll be able to check up on things as I go.
I have yet to check out the accompanying website, but if it is even half as useful as the book I'll be laughing.
As a trainee teacher about to embark upon my first year in the classroom, I bought this book hoping it would help me through the trials of planning my English lessons.
The book is aimed at all teachers, whether new to the profession or established, whether Primary, Secondary or beyond, not matter the subject. That said, it is the English/Welsh education system it refers to, though even teachers from other countries can glean fantastic wisdom and techniques from within its pages.
It is slim and easy to carry (though a bit wide) and is stylishly designed, but more importantly it is accessible in its style, and the layout makes it easy to flick through and pick up pointers. It practices what it preaches, with each chapter having 'lesson objectives' at the start and the end summarising what has been explained/learnt and giving tips for further study.
Having read this, I now feel much more prepared to plan my lessons and having it by my side when planning means I'll be able to check up on things as I go.
I have yet to check out the accompanying website, but if it is even half as useful as the book I'll be laughing.
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