COMPONENTS OF A LESSON PLAN
1. Key Concept What do you wish the children to learn about the topic?
e.g.,, Understand the tempo of a piece of music can get faster or slower.
2. Objectives This should be stated in terms of student behaviour. The objectives
should focus on the concept or skill which you intend to teach. Terms
such as “develop a desire,” “listen,” “comprehend,” “understand” etc. are
not sufficiently specific. One or two objectives should be the main focus
for each lesson.
E.g., The student is able to identify whether tempo of selected recorded
musical examples gets faster or slower.
3. Pre-Planning What materials do you need to prepare or what other planning do you
need to do before you can teach the lesson?
4. Materials What materials do the children need so that they can be successfully
involved in the lesson?
5. Anticipatory Set How will you stimulate the children so that they will want to learn what
you want to teach? How will you indicate to the children what you expect
them to learn?
6. Procedure This is the core of the lesson, the time when you TEACH what you set
out to teach. The procedure should outline the STEPS you will take in
the teaching process. Sample questions should be included. The
children should be involved as much as possible during this phase of the
lesson and should be kept aware of what they are trying to learn.
7. Closure Summarize/review for the children what you taught. Highlight the main
points. This is not the time for testing. During this phase of the lesson,
the students will often verbalize the concept.
8. Evaluation This may be formal (listening test with written answers) or informal
carried out during the lesson as you observe the children’s behaviourusing
questioning techniques that illicit observable non-verbal responses
from all children in the class). Regardless, the evaluation should match
the objective of the lesson. At each evaluation point in the lesson (when
the objective is measured) it is a good idea to have an alternative
teaching strategy in mind for children who did not reach the objective the
first time. Will you use a different learning modality (e.g., if the first
presentation was aural, try kinesthetic). Remember that louder and
slower may be of no help to children who you “missed” the first time
through the lesson.
Remember:
Tell the children the objective of the lesson
Teach to your objective
Evaluate to your objective
IN A NUT****L:
Tell them what you are going to teach them.
Teach them.
Tell them what you taught them.
