Finally, I choose heroes as the main topic of my lesson plan, and a webpage where they could create their own hero as the core of the unit. I thought that letting the pupils create their own hero could be a good way to arouse their interest on description better than if they were describing an imposed one (we are used to seeing lots of activities in textbooks about describing famous people or invented characters, which is no longer working, as it is not attractive to them).
Considering that my pupils have a low level in speaking competences, and also the objectives derived from the curriculum, I chose heroes because it would give me a chance to teach them how to describe people and their abilities, something that will be useful for them to maintain basic conversations in real life. This topic also allowed me to refer to their previous lessons (especially nationalities).
I used different resources to motivate them to learn, like the red cards they had to show me when they had questions, trying always to offer dynamic classes by alternating between different types of activities. The activities were designed to work through different abilities, such as writing, speaking, interacting, listening and reading, although I assigned the most relevance to interacting.
To work with these different activities, I tried to alternate the learning formats, although the most frequent ones were the activities working with the whole group and with small non-competitive groups.
Let’s become a hero! lesson plan also addressed ICT competences, trying to orientate the sessions according to the availability of one computer for each student, or, at least, one computer with a projector in each class. My coach helped me a lot, and most of the activities were planned taking into account that there would be more than one teacher in the class. Otherwise, most of the activities couldn’t have been done.
One of the activities I enjoyed the most (and I think the students enjoyed it a lot as well) was the poster’s creation, which was the final project of the lesson.
Taking the teacher’s poster as an example, they had to create their own poster with the hero they created the first day of the lesson plan. Once they finished, they had to record their hero’s description to post it on a weblog with all students’ creations.
I think that finally I achieved my lesson plan’s objectives, but in my opinion, what helped me the most in order to create a successful lesson plan was the classroom observation period. It allowed me to create a detailed classroom profile and to establish concrete classroom needs that my lesson could satisfy, as well as becoming familiar with students. However, I also have to stress some of the problems I had. The first one is that some pupils did not do their homework even if they knew I was going to grade them. Although they do the same with my tutor, I did not find the appropriate policy to avoid that problem. Regarding this, I have to say that maybe I did not attach enough importance to correcting all the activities. I corrected the activities and I gave my
feedback, but sometimes I wonder if I could stress more on that in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
Considering that my pupils have a low level in speaking competences, and also the objectives derived from the curriculum, I chose heroes because it would give me a chance to teach them how to describe people and their abilities, something that will be useful for them to maintain basic conversations in real life. This topic also allowed me to refer to their previous lessons (especially nationalities).
I used different resources to motivate them to learn, like the red cards they had to show me when they had questions, trying always to offer dynamic classes by alternating between different types of activities. The activities were designed to work through different abilities, such as writing, speaking, interacting, listening and reading, although I assigned the most relevance to interacting.
To work with these different activities, I tried to alternate the learning formats, although the most frequent ones were the activities working with the whole group and with small non-competitive groups.
Let’s become a hero! lesson plan also addressed ICT competences, trying to orientate the sessions according to the availability of one computer for each student, or, at least, one computer with a projector in each class. My coach helped me a lot, and most of the activities were planned taking into account that there would be more than one teacher in the class. Otherwise, most of the activities couldn’t have been done.
One of the activities I enjoyed the most (and I think the students enjoyed it a lot as well) was the poster’s creation, which was the final project of the lesson.
Taking the teacher’s poster as an example, they had to create their own poster with the hero they created the first day of the lesson plan. Once they finished, they had to record their hero’s description to post it on a weblog with all students’ creations.
I think that finally I achieved my lesson plan’s objectives, but in my opinion, what helped me the most in order to create a successful lesson plan was the classroom observation period. It allowed me to create a detailed classroom profile and to establish concrete classroom needs that my lesson could satisfy, as well as becoming familiar with students. However, I also have to stress some of the problems I had. The first one is that some pupils did not do their homework even if they knew I was going to grade them. Although they do the same with my tutor, I did not find the appropriate policy to avoid that problem. Regarding this, I have to say that maybe I did not attach enough importance to correcting all the activities. I corrected the activities and I gave my
feedback, but sometimes I wonder if I could stress more on that in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
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