Action Plan Form - Gustavo Granada2

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA Master in English Language Teaching for Self -Directed Learning LESSON DESIGN AND ANALYSIS – ACTION PLAN Teacher name: __Gustavo Granada__ Subject taught: English____________________ Lesson: ____Oral presentation__________ ______ Date taught ___Sept 11__ Short description of th e class planned: The students will introduce and practice a topic presentation where they will identify the topic, context and organize an oral exposition using phrasal verbs to improve speaking skills. The class was structured taking into account a brief description of learners (Ninth graders, aged between 14 and 16 years old), the aim of lesson (what learners can learn or be better able to do), the content knowledge language in lesson, functional language and task based language, anticipated problems in lesson and solutions to anticipated problems. The class starts with a “Warmer” activity, where teacher activates prior knowledge using a question in order to students compare with the real life. The teacher makes some questions in order to know information about the subjects to be worked in class. Students can recognize the meaning with the answer. After, the teacher asks for students in order to get some vocabulary to identify some characteristics about the topic worked, in the second stage, student’s create some groups and work for a period of time about the topic they have chosen(teacher has 10 papers and each choose a topic randomly). Students will work preparing the topic in 15 minutes where the teacher as a guider or facilitator goes by every group to so lve possible doubts about the topics and give some ideas about the presentation of the topic in front of their classmates. Then students share the information with the rest of the class by organizing an exposition in front of the classmates for 2 minutes and as a final activity the student practice the topic in an oral way. In the last part of the class, teacher gives feedback about students’ exposition pointing out spelling, pronunciation, use of English. Short description of the observations as to how the class developed: The teacher started with a prayer. After the teacher works a warm up activity, then he gave them a set of questions to be analyzed individually and then he chose three students to discuss them. Later, the teacher gave the students some instructions with a timeline included and they got into groups of two. They planned the presentation while the teacher was helping and encouraging them by u sing different scaffolding strategies. The students did an oral presentation in 2 minutes where each member of the group was a part of the chosen topic. After each group intervention, the teacher gave positive feedback and at the end of all the presentations focused on error correction by making the students noticed their mistakes. The class was held in English. Main strengths perceived: Instructions were clear by the teacher. There was good class management and good rapport between the teacher and the students during the whole class; there was a constant positive collaborative and cooperative work by the teacher and students and the lesson goal was achieved: Comment [AMS1]: Not a very clear description.

Action Plan Form - Gustavo Granada2

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