3. Lesson outcomes Objective: to help participants to explore and practise establishing lesson outcomes
Time: 25 minutes
Materials: Handout 1 from the previous task.
Interaction: group work
Procedure:
Explain to participants that formulating objectives also important for being able to see the outcomes of the lesson – that is what will be the end result of the lesson in terms of pupils’ skills, abilities and knowledge. Ask participants to give the equivalents of lesson outcomes in L1.
Discuss the outcomes of Lesson C from the previous activity (the one to which participants identified objectives) by asking the following questions:
What language knowledge will pupils have by the end of the lesson?
What topic will pupils be able to communicate (write, speak, understand while listening and reading) on?
What skills will pupils have developed by the end of the lesson?
What cultural knowledge will pupils gain from the lesson?
Discuss answers in plenary.
Answer keys:
Pupils will have knowledge about the simple present for repeated activities, expressions of frequency.
o Pupils will be able to communicate about common, everyday household chores.
o Pupils will have developed reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
o Pupils will learn more about household chores of their classmates.
Establish that discussing these questions help teachers to identify the educational, developing and upbringing outcomes of the lesson (Uzbek: darsining ta’limiy, rivojlantiruvchi va trabiyviy maqsadlari;
Ask participants to look at their lessons from Task 2 (Handout 1: Lesson A, B or D) again and discuss the following questions in their groups:
o What language knowledge will pupils have by the end of the lesson?
o What topic will pupils be able to communicate (write, speak, understand while listening and reading) on?
o What skills will pupils have developed by the end of the lesson?
o What cultural knowledge will pupils gain from the lesson?
Ask participants to write the outcomes of ‘their’ lesson and present it to the bigger group.
Discuss the outcomes presented by each group and comment if necessary.
4. Reflection and action planning
Objectives: to help participants to reflect on the tasks they practised; to give participants opportunity to think of the things they would like to use in their teaching
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: none
Interaction: individual, pair work, plenary
Procedure:
Ask participants to complete the following sentences
o One thing I found interesting in the session is ...
o One thing I will try in my teaching or lesson planning is ...
Ask participants to get into pairs and discuss their answers.
Elicit random responses in plenary.
Summarise the session by establishing that
o Planning a lesson is important for a teacher firstly for identifying the objectives and outcomes of the lesson.
o Lesson planning helps teachers to think of the essential aspects of the lesson objectives and outcomes:
Language knowledge pupils will achieve
Abilities pupils will develop.
Skills pupils will develop
Cultural knowledge pupils will gain