Lessonwriter is a very convenient software for both novice and experienced teachers to make their lesson plan easily and quickly. For novice teachers, with the text or the video in hands then they can have a well planned lesson after just copying, pasting and a click through Lessonwriter. Using the EXPRESS way to automatically create the whole lesson can give them some clues about what to teach based on the text that they would like to use. There are some ready made lesson plans which can set as examples for new teachers' first teaching and guide them to find their teaching style and method in the future.
For experienced teacher, Lessonwriter truly benefits them in saving a lot of time to prepare for the lessons and come up different questions for the text. STANDARD and DETAILED provides free space for teachers to design the higher order thinking reading questions based on different prompts such as Blooms, Hess and writing prompts as the guidance, which saves time to go back to the books and generate appropriate questions themselves. The comprehension questions are offered for different literacy levels, which can help teacher to provide questions that are appropriate for students' language level.
Personally, I like the order of each teaching steps in the lesson plan, which could be effective for Chinese EFL classroom (which is using Grammar Translation Method) since most of the Chinese teachers just directly jump to the grammar and leave other parts blank for students. If the teacher can follow these lesson plans which pay more attention to the pronunciation and word use, students can surely be benefited a lot in improving their learning.
The only thing that I would like suggest Lessonwriter to improve in the future is adding more in class activities. Currently, Lessonwriter offers two activities: Flash Cards and Words Searches, which is rather limited for teachers to choose. Look forward to seeing more interesting activities and the coming REPORTS function.
No comments:
Post a Comment