Teaching Activities

& Lesson Plans: Elementary

2016 MOE FET Orientation, Training Workshop

Overview à Intro à Elements of a plan à Activities à Brainstorming

Why a plan? •  Required •  Organizes thoughts •  Builds unity with your co-teacher •  ______________________________

Elements of a Lesson Plan •  Admin Information •  Warm-up &/or Review •  Activities: Presentation, Practice & Assessment •  Closing

Elements of a Lesson •  Greeting and Overview

•  Review •  Target •  Practice •  Assessment

Lesson – Greeting & Overview 1. Verbal “Good morning!” Class may or may not stand OR At door 2. Greeting song, if known 3. Overview of lesson on board

Lesson - Review …is incredibly important! •  Known material •  Mastery •  Brief •  Fun …ish

Lesson - Target •  What am I teaching? •  How can I teach this so students will understand? •  ______________________________

Lesson – Practice How can we practise this multiple

times, without students recognizing it as practice?

**If an activity is new, show, don’t tell.**

Lesson – Assessment How can I know who has ‘got it’?

How can I know who hasn’t?

Activities •  Focus is one or more of 4 skills: reading, writing, speaking & listening •  Know your target, decide your skill, & design your activity.

Activities, continued •  Relays, songs & chants, Memory, Pictionary •  Comic strips, role plays & drama, cloze drills, ‘direction’ sheets…

**Consider: How can I encourage cooperative

learning?**

Activities

…for the 4 skills

Activities - Writing

•  Video clip and questions

•  Alphabet words

•  Regarding homework…

Activities - Reading

•  Picture books

•  Sentence mark ups

•  Bomb!

Activities - Listening

•  Mingle

•  Guessing games with teams

•  The surprise of drawing

Activities - Speaking

•  Pass the Card

•  Sentence Say www.facebook.com/MiaoliETRC

•  Typhoon

Activities in Action

•  Relay

•  Song: In, On, Under, By

•  Typhoon

Someone was… Activity Grade 6 Guessing Activity – (Someone) was (at a Place).

Activities - Bomb •  Great reading review game •  Needed:

- Students in 2 lines - 2 envelopes with identical sentence strips - A timer - A helper

Activities – Sentence Say •  www.facebook.com/MiaoliETRC

Brainstorming Your turn!