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As a teacher I think that the most important part of the lesson is the lesson planning. Before entering the classroom the teacher must have an accurate lesson plan, have all the teaching aids under his/her hand, must know student needs and make solutions for every possible problem that can arise during the lesson. Of course, making an effective lesson plan takes time. The goal for the teacher should be understanding the needs and demands of the students' for every lesson. For being ready to the lesson at the beginning of every lesson, the teacher should write a lesson plan goal at the top. It should be incredibly simple. Something like, "Students will be able to identify different animal body structures that enable eating, breathing, moving, and thriving." Basically, it's what your students can do after you're done with them! Working with adults the teacher objective can be "Improving reading or writing skills." Each lesson is preferable to start with warm up exercises. • The warm up can be a simple game (possibly about vocabulary on the topic to see where their current knowledge lies (or what they remember from last week!) or it can be questions, or pictures used to start a conversation. Whatever it is, get them talking. Get them thinking about the topic. • Depending on your students' levels, the teacher may have to go pretty bare bones. • If you have time for two activities, all the better. It's a good idea to test their knowledge on two different levels for example, writing and speaking (two very different skills). Try to incorporate different activities for students that have different aptitudes. • If the teacher has been teaching the same group for a while, odds are you know the students who might struggle with certain concepts. If that's the case, pair them with stronger students to keep the class going. You don't want certain students left behind, but you also don't want the class held up, waiting for everyone to get on the same level. • If there is a group full of kids that can't be paid to raise their hands, turn them amongst themselves. Give them an aspect of the topic to discuss and 5 minutes to converse about it. Then bring the focus to the front of the class and lead a group discussion. Interesting points are bound to pop up! • Take five minutes to go over concepts for the day. Ask them concept-checking questions (not introducing new information) to reiterate what the both of you have done and gained from the day. It's sort of a full-circle type of thing, book-ending your work! Once knowing the essential objective, it is time to move through the activities -- the when and how -- to allow students to learn. You begin with introductory steps to gauge students' familiarity with the topic: a class poll, a set of questions that address previous learning, a video clip, an anecdote. For the objective of supporting a thesis, you can introduce sample thesis statements in a PowerPoint, model writing a thesis and then have students analyze the elements of the thesis you wrote. Always allow for teachable moments: reteaching and redirecting are common throughout the lesson. The next step for the teacher is the guided practice is the part of the lesson where the instructor works with students to ensure that they are learning the material. The teacher might want to have the students group together to research a single thesis statement; you as the instructor monitor groups, checking for understanding and giving non-evaluative feedback. Scaffolding is helpful: this is providing supports such as graphic organizers and diagrams, as well as examples of research, to help students understand the objective. You may need to reteach certain points again; always allow student input to guide your lesson. After each lesson the teacher is to provide a feedback to the students. He/she must evaluate the students, as all of them are keen to know what progress they have during the lesson. For conclusion I should say no matter what your intent and outcome, the lesson plan elements of learning objective, introduction, guided and independent practice will take the students through many curricular ideas and educational approaches.
