The Complete Guide to Lesson Planning and Preparation

Contents......Page 8
List of figures and tables......Page 12
Acknowledgement......Page 13
1 Teaching as a three-step activity......Page 14
Planning and preparation......Page 16
Subject teaching......Page 17
Sources......Page 18
Further reading......Page 20
2 Aims......Page 21
The example of quality management......Page 22
Educational aims......Page 23
Subject teaching......Page 26
Bringing it all together......Page 27
Further reading......Page 29
3 Needs......Page 30
Whose needs?......Page 31
Learning about stakeholders’ needs......Page 33
Baseline assessment as part of needs analysis......Page 35
Bringing it all together......Page 37
Further reading......Page 39
4 Context......Page 41
Aspects of context......Page 43
Ethos......Page 46
Bringing it all together......Page 50
Further reading......Page 51
5 Cognition......Page 55
Declarative knowledge......Page 56
Procedural knowledge......Page 58
Outlooks......Page 60
Mental events......Page 62
Subject teaching......Page 63
Bringing it all together......Page 64
Further reading......Page 65
6 Curriculum......Page 67
The first dimension: subjects......Page 68
The second dimension: cognitive components......Page 69
The third dimension: modes of learning......Page 71
The three dimensions: the curriculum as a cube......Page 73
Bringing it all together......Page 75
Further reading......Page 76
7 Planning in the medium and short term......Page 77
The perfect plan......Page 78
Bringing it all together......Page 89
Further reading......Page 95
Resources and their use......Page 97
Readability......Page 102
Design......Page 105
Bringing it all together......Page 106
Further reading......Page 107
9 Time......Page 108
Getting the timing right......Page 110
Rhythm and pace......Page 111
Starts of lessons......Page 112
Ends of lessons......Page 113
Setting homework......Page 114
Bringing it all together......Page 116
Further reading......Page 117
Classroom layouts......Page 118
Who sits where?......Page 121
Conventions......Page 122
Fabric......Page 123
Display......Page 124
Bringing it all together......Page 126
Further reading......Page 127
11 Language......Page 128
Principles of language development......Page 129
Listening......Page 134
Talk......Page 137
Reading......Page 139
Writing......Page 144
Bringing it all together......Page 145
Further reading......Page 146
12 Progression and differentiation......Page 148
Progression......Page 149
Differentiation......Page 152
Bringing it all together......Page 159
Further reading......Page 161
13 Coda: Assessment......Page 162
What?......Page 163
Why?......Page 165
How?......Page 169
Whither?......Page 173
Bringing it all together......Page 177
Further reading......Page 178
Appendix A: A Cubic Model of the Curriculum......Page 180
Appendix B: Framework for Perfect Planning......Page 181
References......Page 182
Index of Names......Page 186
K......Page 187
W......Page 188