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<h1 class="title-header" style="text-align: center;">Unit 1: Teaching, to include learner analysis, preparation, delivery and self-evaluation</h1>
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The TP is the face to face part of the course if you’re doing the online Dip. It’s extremely intense and you probably won’t sleep much! However, since you’re already a teacher and a great one no doubt, you’ll get through it and pass with flying colours! It’s hard to know your student profiles and needs until you meet them on site, but I’d recommend doing some lesson plans beforehand to be prepared. I was given a very general profile and took some dip style lesson plans with me which I had to change and adapt while I was there. Having said that, once the learner needs had been established I had to write lesson plans + handouts from scratch the night before as well as all the other stuff like self-evaluations and class profile which I’ll get to later.

During the TP you will be observed/ evaluated internally by your course providers and once externally by a Trinity examiner. The Trinity examiner observation is a must pass. Just keep reminding yourself that YOU ARE A TEACHER! And you CAN DO THIS! Just requires a lot more prep and following guidelines. For those of you who haven’t been observed much in the past and find it daunting, I suggest you get fellow teachers to observe you if they have time before you do the TP. You will seriously forget there is someone sat taking notes and watching you at the back within 5 minutes of your lesson.

<strong>Needs analysis:</strong>

You will have to think of how you’ll analyze the needs of your new learners for the TP, this may be done individually or with other teachers, you may be sharing the classes with. You can write a questionnaire, have a class discussion or both. This will probably be done when you first meet your students, at the beginning or end of class. Your first class will be a ‘diagnostic’ it is upgraded. Here the tutors will give you feedback about your lesson plan and teaching style or any feedback where perhaps you can improve on or develop something you’re doing. This class and the following few will also help you get to know your learners in order to plan according to their needs, levels, abilities and learning styles.

<strong>Class Profile:</strong>

This is something you have to write up throughout the duration of the TP with every observed lesson. This document needs to be updated with every new lesson given. The document includes information about all your learner’s profiles, learner needs and a rationale for lesson content. The minimum word count excluding the individual learner info is about 800 words.

<strong>Below is an example of a class profile:</strong>

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<strong>Pre-interview before class:</strong>

This is a short interview with the observing tutor before your class takes place. It lasts about 15/20 minutes. The observer has probably already read your class plan and rationale and will ask you questions about it. These questions may be as follows:
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 	<li>Are your aims achievable? Why?</li>
 	<li>What will learners better be able to do by the end of the lesson?</li>
 	<li>How will you evaluate their learning?</li>
 	<li>How will you address mixed abilities?</li>
 	<li>Why did you choose this context or linguistic point?</li>
 	<li>Discuss your anticipated problems and how you’ll address them</li>
 	<li>Discuss the phonological input and why you choose to focus on that</li>
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<strong>Post-interview after class:</strong>

This will be done after every class you give with the same observer and lasts about the same time as pre-interview 15/20minutes. Here you’ll discuss how the class went and answer any questions the observer may have such as:
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 	<li>How do you know you achieved your aims?</li>
 	<li>Would you have reorganized any stages or activities and why?</li>
 	<li>Would you have changed timings in any of the stages?</li>
 	<li>Did anything unexpected happened and how did you address it?</li>
 	<li>Were there any problems caused by mixed levels or abilities?</li>
 	<li>How and what would you change in this plan?</li>
 	<li>Discuss your board work/ phonological input- did it work? If not, why not?</li>
 	<li>How can you measure the success of this class?</li>
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<strong>Self-evaluations:</strong>

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As painstaking as writing these up after every lesson is, for me it was one of the best learning curves. In real life we’re running around like headless chickens, preparing, lesson planning, marking, admin, chasing up students, with long contact hours that you just don’t have time to really sit down and reflect on aspects of your lesson or instruction. So writing up these evaluations or more importantly consciously and carefully evaluating myself was a definite plus during the TP. These self-evaluations have to be up to 1000 words for each lesson and constitute 20% of the unit 4 marks.

The information you need to include in each self-evaluation is as follows:
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 	<li>How you achieved lesson aims and outcomes</li>
 	<li>Effectiveness of Phonological input</li>
 	<li>Any changes you made or would make in the lesson plan</li>
 	<li>How appropriate were the tasks/ activities/ stages</li>
 	<li>Relevance and effectiveness of materials and aids used</li>
 	<li>Different learner styles and mixed abilities</li>
 	<li>Alternative strategies you would use</li>
 	<li>Your teaching beliefs relevant to the lesson given</li>
 	<li>How your teaching is developing</li>
 	<li>ELT theories relevant to your lesson- quote authors</li>
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<strong>Lesson plans:</strong>

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Throughout your course, you should receive a practice of doing and submitting diploma style lesson plans. If you are not required to, then please demand your tutors to check your plans and give you feedback. Your lessons are more than likely going to be 60 mins. You can either adapt existing lesson plans you have or take some authentic material and base your class around it. Once you meet your students you’ll have a clearer idea of their needs and will be able to plan accordingly but do plan some lessons before you take the TP. These can be based around the general info your tutors give you about your potential students.

The Marks for this unit are as follows (although it may differ slightly depending on your course provider):

The 4 internally observed lessons (40%)

The externally observed lesson and a MUST PASS (40%)

The TP journal- includes self-evaluations and class profile. This is externally moderated and a MUST PASS (20%)

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<strong>Tips for lesson plans: </strong>

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 	<li>Be very clear in your <strong>lesson aims/linguistic aims</strong>– These are statements of what you hope to achieve and relates to which part of the language you’ll focus on e.g. to introduce and practice Modal verbs of advice- should/could/can/ought to. You should have about 2/3 main aims or more! But not just for the sake of it but because they’re a part of your lesson and you hope to achieve them</li>
 	<li>Again clarity on <strong>subsidiary aims-</strong> main aims aside there’s a lot more happening in the lesson which you need to highlight e.g. Practising receptive skills, top-down/ bottom-up skills, reading for gist, promote learner autonomy etc</li>
 	<li>What do you want your students to be able to do at the end of the lesson? Be clear and realistic with your <strong>lesson outcomes </strong>g. Ss will be better able to give advice in the context of…, Ss will be able to understand and practice language used in business negotiations or Ss will be more confident in talking about planning a holiday using the appropriate collocations etc</li>
 	<li>Your <strong>professional aims</strong> are very personal to you and can be anything from the timing of stages, maximizing STT, giving clearer/ succinct instructions, using Ss as a resource, or any area you feel you need to develop in that class</li>
 	<li>Another important part of the lesson plan is <strong>assumptions</strong>. These are your beliefs about students which influence decisions on lesson content and mode of delivery. These assumptions must be identified clearly in your plan e.g. Ss may be familiar with collocations presented, Ss have used the TL before, most learners are already confident in using the lexical items in the review, some lower level Ss will find the leaflet challenging etc</li>
 	<li>Your <strong>anticipated problems and solutions</strong> is an important part of the lesson plan and one that is likely to be discussed in the pre/post-interview. Defining these shows you are a reflective practitioner and able to identify problem areas and how you will address them when they arise. These problems are relevant to your lesson and can be things such as ‘lower level students may struggle with the controlled practice stage, therefore, pair them up with stronger class members and monitor closely’.</li>
 	<li>Each <strong>lesson stage</strong> should have a short aim- Why are you doing this warmer? Why are you doing the reading exercise?</li>
 	<li><strong>Practice the lesson</strong> plans you have written up at home to get an idea of the timings. 60 mins are very short and you need to cover everything. I always found I spent too long on the lead-in and was advised it shouldn’t be longer than 4 mins. Although it’s hard practising lesson plans not having students! It helped to control the timing of my stages which is fundamental.</li>
 	<li>Include <strong>phonology</strong> in every lesson! Trinity is very big on phonology so every one of your lessons must have some phonological input whether it’s connected speech features or particular lexis you’ll present.</li>
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Below is an example:

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I hope to add more/ full lesson plans so watch this space!