Workshop 8 PTRA

Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction

1. Gain attention

Trainer says: We can say that "There are three types of lessons: The one we plan to teach; the one we actually teach; and the one we wish we had taught. Effective design and delivery of lessons lead to successful learning in communicative language classrooms. Teachers need to not only to plan and teach lessons, but also to reflect on how the lessons were taught and how the students interacted during the lessons. Through this module, you will explore ways that will help you design and develop lesson plans for your communicative language classrooms. You will also have a chance to delve deeper into reflective teaching practices that will benefit both you and your learners”.

2. Inform learners of objectives

By the end the session you will be able to:

•  plan, teach, reflect, and adjust lesson plans to promote effective communicative language practice in your classrooms
• develop an effective lesson plan for English learners that teaches language through meaningful context and promotes communicative interaction using engaging activities
• design effective lesson plans for English learners using the following steps: warm up, presentation, practice, application, and wrap up

3. Stimulate recall of prior learning

 Discussing classroom objectives in small groups answering the following questions:

• are classroom objectives important?
• do you work out objectives for each class?
• how do you work out your classroom objectives?

4. Present the content

Playing the video “Writing Good Objectives”

Discussing some parts of the video and establishing that SWBAT is an important part of lesson planning

5. Guide learning

Work in pairs. Ask PP to distinguish which verbs can be used in a good lesson objective.

Make a True/ False statements about a good lesson objective. PP should use response cards(True/False cards)

Small group activity. PPs work with handouts where there is a list of disordered activities of a lesson. They try to make a logical sequence of the activities.

Playing the video “Sequencing Activities”. Before playing it establishing “This video will demonstrate how to sequence activities in a lesson to promote a meaningful language learning environment throughout instruction.”  

Jig saw activity:

6. Elicit performance (practice)

Fluency line activity (inner, outer circle): PP speak about their lesson plan – theme, objective, activities taking into consideration Six-Step Lesson

1. Warm-up

2. Presentation

3. Practice

4. Application

5. Wrap-up/Assessment

6. Follow-up.

They also explain to each other how each activity is connected to the previous one to reach the objective. (each time 1.5 minute is provided)

PP have a jig saw activity using the adapted script of Video 3  Activating Your Reflective Teaching (reading a part in one group and explaining it to others in another group)

7. Provide feedback

Asking the PP to recalling the objectives of the session:

• plan, teach, reflect, and adjust lesson plans to promote effective communicative language practice in your classrooms
• develop an effective lesson plan for English learners that teaches language through meaningful context and promotes communicative interaction using engaging activities
• design effective lesson plans for English learners using the following steps: warm up, presentation, practice, application, and wrap up

8. Assess performance

Matching activity, pair work. PP match main terms from the session with their definitions

9. Enhance retention and transfer

-Ask PP to design a six step lesson plan for a lesson from their textbook.

-Ask them to think of any ideas for  English teachers in Uzbekistan to implement PTRA into their teaching.