Learning to teach ESL

The week we are instructed to create a short lesson plan (15 minutes). These lesson plans can be for beginner, intermediate, or advanced students. I decided to make a lesson plan for beginner students who are at approximately the first or second level in the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) since I have more experience working with students at this level.

I have designed this lesson to be used for students learning at approximately level 1 and 2. I have combined some of the objectives for speaking and listening from the CLB publication since there are few learning tasks that only incorporate one type of language learning skill. The lesson was structured using the lesson mapped out in chapter six of the class text.

This lesson focuses on students understanding and following the teacher's instructions while introducing themselves as another student.

You can see my lesson plan in the pdf attached below.

 

Here is an image of my PLN. I hope that some of the labels aren't too faint. I have organized the parts into flowers and leaves. The flowers show the people and resources that help me to grow as an ESL teacher, while the leaves show the organizations and social media connections that help to connect me to these people and resources.

At the moment, most of my contacts are organizations and websites that provide resources like lesson plans to ESL teachers around the world. I have found it difficult to locate other teachers. Hopefully adding more classmates from this program will help to expand my PLN.