Teaching Plan

For my teaching practice, I made a total of four lesson plans under the supervision of my English supervisor, Koizumi sensei. Two of those lesson plans I used for my demonstration teaching, and the other two I originally made for my final demonstration teaching but Koizumi sensei suggested changing the topic since the students' final examination is coming up.

My first lesson plan is a topic on my home country, the Philippines. After mentioning to Koizumi sensei that I could teach about the Philippines for my initial demonstration teaching, he agreed, saying that it was a good idea for the students to learn something new and different. I immediately wrote and submitted the lesson plan for him to approve. The discussion proper I had written contained a discussion about Philippines' capital, weather, national hero, values, traditional clothes, festivals, music and dance, food, tourist spots, similarities between Japan and the Philippines and fun facts about the Philippines that the students may enjoy. It also included a short Filipino lesson where I taught the students some Filipino words.

The second and third lesson plans I made was originally for my final demonstration teaching. The topics were two different lessons from one of the English textbooks that UTSS uses; Heartening English Communication I. The second lesson plan was for a short story entitled "About Tina," I chose this lesson originally since the story happened in Payatas, which was a country in the Philippines. The story is the last part for the Lesson 10 in the Heartening English Communication I textbook.

The third lesson plan was for a topic on plant communication which is part of the Lesson 9 of the textbook. I chose this topic to maintain consistency since I had observed that Koizumi sensei was currently teaching the textbook's Lesson 9 to all of his classes, and I thought that it would be better if I taught the same lesson, just a different part.

The discussion parts for both lesson plans are similar; introducing new vocabulary, showing example sentences containing the new vocabulary, and then implementing the Dictogloss technique (see post Observations at UTSS for the explanation). I decided to use the Dictogloss technique as well since it was the technique Koizumi sensei uses and it was a technique that was new to me and I wanted to try it. I also wanted to use the same technique as Koizumi sensei so the students feel a sense of familiarity during the lesson. After the discussion proper is an activity where the students have to make their own True or False statements based on the lesson, or answer True or False questions based on the topic.

The fourth and last lesson plan, which I used for my final demonstration teaching, was a topic on Grammar for Speaking and Writing, specifically on Relative Pronouns. The lesson was taken from a different textbook that Koizumi sensei uses which is My Way Logic and Expression I. The topic was taken from Lesson 9 of the textbook. As mentioned before, Koizumi sensei suggested changing the original topic to this since the students' examinations are coming up, and he wanted me to teach a lesson that will be in the students' examination. The discussion proper contained teaching the students about relative pronouns, specifically the pronouns; that, whose, and what; and explaining why these relative pronouns cannot be removed in sentences. The activity for the lesson is a group activity wherein the students have to write an essay on a given topic together and then having one representative read the written essay in front of the class.

All four lesson plans were approved and checked by Koizumi sensei before I implemented them. Koizumi sensei also gave suggestions to improve the lesson plans which I immediately revised before implementation.

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