KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Stafford Lumsden, Sookmyung Women's University
Kara Waggoner, Sookmyung Women's University
All I Want to Do Is Teach! A Framework for Teaching Lesson Planning
Abstract
In language teacher education courses students are provided with the skills, and techniques to develop their student's productive and receptive skills. Depending on their students, teachers employ these as as needed, but one constant underlies all of this: lesson planning. Knowing how to effectively lesson plan can be the difference between the type of teaching experiences one has in the learning environment as a novice teacher. In this presentation a framework for teaching lesson planning to trainee teachers will be examined that breaks the sometimes long and arduous process of planning a lesson, into manageable chunks. When teacher trainees learn to plan effectively, they are then able to focus on other responsibilities in the learning environment, such as making accommodations for student needs and tracking growth. In a teacher education program trainees are developing content knowledge, what Schulman (1987) would label comprehension and attempting to apply it to lesson planning or so-called transformation. By equipping trainees with a framework for developing their own lesson plans we are also having them pay attention to Schulman's other five phases of lesson planning; instruction (devoting time to the practical strategies teachers are going to employ), monitoring (checking student performance during lessons), and reflection (especially reflection-in-action). While this presentation has immediate application to teacher education contexts, any teacher's lesson planning routines will benefit from the ideas presented.
Biographicals
Stafford Lumsden is the Coordinator of the Online TESOL program at Sookmyung Women's University where he also teaches Curriculum Design & Lesson Planning in the YL-TESOL program. In the past he has served as the president of the Seoul chapter of KOTESOL (2012-2014), Chair of the KOTESOL National Conference (2015) and in various roles for the KOTESOL International Conference since 2008
Kara Waggoner has worked at Sookmyung Women's University in their Young Learner TESOL teacher training program for the past two years, where she specializes in curriculum design and management. For the past ten years she has taught in the United States and Korea, teaching a diverse range of ages and language proficiencies. Her areas of interest include ESL policy, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and poverty and its effect on education
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