Lesson Plan Ideas for English Teachers

As an English Teacher, it is essential to have well-organized, clearly defined, and accessible lesson plans for students. While experienced teachers likely know how to create an ideal lesson plan that will suite their particular students need and accommodate for differentiation in a short amount of time, beginning or prospective teachers may need a bit of assistance.

This particular blog post focuses on not only the importance of having a well-thought-out lesson plan, but also provides a couple of sample links to examine for teachers to use as educational resources.

Lesson plans are important, especially for secondary Language Arts teachers, because they provide a framework from which a classroom lesson can be centered around. With an organized and multifaceted lesson plan, teachers can gauge which types of activities, how much time, and what goals must be accomplished by the end of the class period. Lesson plans provide teachers with the objective of realizing what they expect their students to learn by the end of the lesson, as well as a tangible means of carrying out that objective through class activities, take home projects, and homework.

This particular video from YouTube, English Lesson Plans forEnglish as Second Language Learners, offers an idea of how teachers can best teach students not familiar with the English language adequately in the classroom.  While this video only offers some basic ideas on and guidelines on how to design and implement an effective lesson plan that caters to ESL students in the Language Arts classroom, it nonetheless provides a starting point from which to learn from.

This particular link, The English Teacher, offers Language Arts instructors some great ideas and guides on not only how to create an effective lesson plan for a classroom, but also tips on how to successfully implement it to benefit student learning.  For example, the site provides examples of Creative Writing exercises and lesson plan templates, as well as guidelines to teaching literature and other works.

Hopefully these sites offer some good starting points on creating and implementing your own effective lesson plans in your English classrooms.  With enough preparation and thought, lessons can be accommodated to truly benefit students and ensure they learn what learning objectives are expected of them by the end of the period.