PHASE 1 LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS

General Directions
Read through the Phase 1 Lesson Plan Project Assignment to get an overview of the Lesson
Plan project as a whole, including deadlines: https://class.coursera.org/shaping2paths-
002/wiki/phase1_lesson_plan_assignment

Please download the whole set of documents related to the lesson plan in the zip file:
https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/shaping2paths/week2/phase1_all_files.zip. You can also
read the instructions and download each element from the separate web pages if you are not
able to download the zip file.

Fill in the blank Lesson Plan Template (linked from the Project Assignment page) for a class or
group of students you are familiar with. Follow the directions on the Assignment page (above) to
submit your work.

Lesson Plan Format: Specific Instructions

Note: You do NOT need to write your name on your lesson plan. It's probably best if you
don't add your name. When you submit it in the appropriate place, Coursera knows who
you are.

A. STUDENTS and SETTING

Students
Briefly identify the age, grade level, and previous English experience of your students. Include
anything that would help other teachers understand who your target students are.

Setting
Briefly describe the setting. Is this a private school, public school, university, other institution?
How many students are in the class? How often will you meet this group of students, and for
how long, etc.? Please include anything that will help other teachers understand the situation
where the lesson will be taught.

You need to include the type of institution, number of students in the class, class meetings per
week, length of each class meeting to get full marks for this.
Overall, the reader needs to be able to visualize the students and setting.

B. LESSON BACKGROUND
Put this lesson into a larger context. What kinds of lessons have immediately preceded this
one? Are you expanding a previously learned/practiced point? beginning a new module?
offering extended practice? Include anything that will help other teachers understand your
lesson.
Make sure that you describe what happened in the class before and after the lesson. If this is
the first or the final lesson, be sure to say so.

C. LEARNING OBJECTIVES / EXPECTED RESULTS

Describe how students will improve or change as a result of this lesson and what they will be
able to do as a result of the lesson. Make sure that your learning objectives are connected to

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your use of integrated skills in the lesson. The following reference offers some action words to
describe typical lesson plan objectives:
● Lane, J.S. (n.d.). Sample verbs for learning objectives. Retrieved from
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/pdf/SampleVerbs_for_LearningObjectives.pdf

Make sure that you describe not only what students will learn or understand, but also what they
will be able to DO as a result of the lesson. The reader should be able to easily visualize how
students can improve or change as a result of this lesson.

D. MATERIALS and SOURCES

Materials
Please list the materials that will be used and whether the teacher will need to prepare or
enhance them beforehand. If worksheets or written instructions are needed, please provide a
copy as a graphic or PDF when you turn in your lesson plan.

Sources
List where your materials came from so that others may find them. You should also list 1-2
resources that you used, or that other teachers might find helpful in preparing a similar lesson.
For example, you might list the name and pages in your coursebook or the URL of a website
that you used.
A teacher should be able to make or find the materials easily. Make sure that the source of any
worksheets or handouts is included.

Citing Sources
For web pages, please include the author (if available), date (if available), title of the
page and the full URL, such as the following:
LeLoup, J. & Ponterio, B. (2013). Integrating technology in the foreign language
classroom: Identifying pedagogical goals, objectives & outcomes. Retrieved from:
http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/mm-course/goals.html.

For a journal article, please include the author, date, title, journal name, volume, issue,
and page numbers, such as the following (APA format):
Ashworth, M. & Wakefield, H.P. (2005). Teaching the world's children: ESL for ages
three to seven. English Teaching Forum, 43(1), 2-7.

Figure 1. Annotated view of citing a journal article, using APA format.

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E. PROCEDURES / TIMING
List step-by-step what you will do in class, and what you expect the students to do. There
should be a good balance between teacher talk and student activity. Make sure that you are
using integrated skills in your lesson plan. You will need to use alternative assessment as well,
and describe it in the F. Assessment area below.
Make sure that you use both integrated skills AND alternative assessment appropriately.
Think about the time that is allocated. Be sure that the reader can visualize how the
lesson will proceed.

Your lesson should be about 40-60 minutes long. Use a table or the optional list, as in the
sample provided, to indicate the timing of each of the steps in your plan. Try to divide the steps
logically, where the teacher moves to a different activity.
e steps in your plan. Try to divide the steps logically, where the teacher moves to a different
activity.

Word template table format - OK for PDF

Make each new action by the teacher a separate row in the table. Feel free to add rows as
needed.
Teacher does/says... Students do/say... Approximate
time needed

Plain text template list format

Make each new action by the teacher and the student response a separate line. Feel free to add
lines as needed.
1. Teacher does/says . . .
Students do/say . . .
Approximate time needed:

2. Teacher does/says . . .
Students do/say . . .
Approximate time needed:

3. Teacher does/says . . .
Students do/say . . .
Approximate time needed:

F. ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT
Respond to the following: What forms of alternative assessment are best suited to this lesson
plan? What does the teacher expect to find out from this assessment? How does the
assessment demonstrate students' linguistic competence?
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G. REFLECTION
Describe how this lesson demonstrates the use of integrated skills and alternative assessment.
Also discuss why this lesson is appropriate for the age/grade and proficiency level of the
students you are targeting.

Notes on formatting your submission

Coursera will not accept .doc or .docx format. You may write your project with a word
processor, but you must save the document as a pdf or in plain text to upload. Or you
may copy and paste from a text document into the submission page, although you will
not retain any formatting.

If you use the .doc (Word) format, save your project to your computer in .pdf format to
upload. This is the best way to preserve the table.
Or use the optional list format, as in the sample provided, to indicate the timing of each
of the steps in your plan and save to a .txt file. You can also copy and paste into the
Coursera submission page.

On later versions of MS Word for Windows, you have the option to >Save as...PDF. On
the Mac, you can choose >Print and save as PDF. If you are using a version of Word
that does not have the >Save as...PDF option, then search the web for a PDF creator
and process your Word document through it to create a PDF. To make things simpler,
just save what you have created as plain text (.txt) and upload it, or copy and paste it
into the submission box on the Coursera submission page.

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