{"id":2037,"date":"2016-05-03T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2017-01-12T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:45:32","slug":"the-importance-of-lesson-plans-in-esl-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-lesson-plans-in-esl-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Lesson Plans in ESL Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every new teacher worries about what will happen on the first day of teaching. &#8220;What if my class activities are over too quickly and I have extra time?&#8221; &#8220;What if my lesson goes off topic and my class falls behind?&#8221; Detailed lesson planning is the best solution to these worries. In this video, Oxford Seminars Instructor, Bridget McLaughlin explains how having detailed and well thought out lesson plans will help you prepare for situations where your class goes in an unexpected direction.\u00a0Planning for these instances gives you additional options and activities for when your lesson runs short or does not effectively teach the material to your students. It also allows you to plan activities that can be cut out of your lesson should another activity or discussion take longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oHkywNCwCZI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Detailed lesson plans can help you on your first day in\u00a0a new\u00a0classroom\u00a0as well. An important goal\u00a0for any teacher is to get to know your students. To teach English as a second language (or any subject) effectively it is essential\u00a0to engage your students and find out what interests them, then gear your lessons towards those interests. It is also important to gauge your students&#8217; English ability during the first few lessons, as it will inform your lesson plans for the rest of the contract, from what concepts you teach, to what activities you use to teach them. Lesson planning can\u00a0help you pick\u00a0activities that will give you a good understanding of your students&#8217;\u00a0hobbies and interests, as well as how comfortable they\u00a0are with English. Learning this information will then help you tailor your lessons to teach the required curriculum effectively.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about teaching English abroad and succeeding in the classroom, be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/teaching-abroad\/\">our website<\/a> and some of our <a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/tag\/classroom\/\">related blogs<\/a> about lesson plans and classroom management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every new teacher worries about what will happen on the first day of teaching. &#8220;What if my class activities are over too quickly and I have extra time?&#8221; &#8220;What if my lesson goes off topic and my class falls behind?&#8221; Detailed lesson planning is the best solution to these worries. In this video, Oxford Seminars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,197],"tags":[155,87,165,90,178],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-esl","category-video","tag-classroom","tag-esl","tag-lesson-plans","tag-teaching-english-abroad","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}