Lesson planning workshop

Planning For Greater
Engagement

Open Ended

Discuss in groups and write your answers: What would you say is necessary for an activity to be highly engaging?

• ​All students can participate

• Students provide some form of output

• Students think about the meaning of the focus language

• Interaction is meaningful in some way

• There is little downtime

Some of our ideas:

Open Ended

For ESL classes, I think the game 'Karuta' is...

(Discuss in your groups and write your thoughts)

• ​All students participate

• ​Exciting

• Easy to implement

​​The good

• ​No thought on meaning

• ​Difficult to practice whole language

• Easy to get demoralized

• Over too quickly

• Not great for older students

The bad

So let's try a different kind of Karuta...

Open Ended

Discuss in your groups: What other target languages could this activity be adapted to?

Word Cloud

What are some of your most common 'go to' classroom activities/games?

Use mind mapping or other brainstorming methods to predict content and gauge student word power.

​​Tip 1 - Predict Content

​Think! Pair! Share!
Students discuss answers in pairs before volunteering them to the class.

​​Tip 2 - T P S

​Don't do homework in the lesson! Exchange short, quick Q&A worksheets to get the most out of produced languege.

​​Tip 3 - Speaking focussed production