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LESSON NOTE PREPARATION

Lesson notes provide a plan for the teacher to follow. Notes can be divided into two major sections.

The first section will identify:

• The subject matter
• The time allocated
• The general aim
• The specific aim
• The basic method to be employed
• The necessary preparation of people, materials, equipment or teaching space.

Subject: Marine Ecology Time: 9.30 -10.30

General Aim: Acquisition of Information

Specific Aims: To identify the adverse effects on high water shore marine ecology of

( i ) untreated sewage

( ii ) oil and marine fuel spillage

( iii ) fertiliser run off.

Basic Method: Explanation

Preparation:

Trainer: OHP transparencies (6) prepared. 18 slides selected. Projectors set up.

Participants:Assigned to collect media reports on national and international pollution with sources, pages and dates recorded.

CONTENT

PROCEDURE

Let's examine Procedure first because each basic method we use will employ a number of identifiable steps or procedures.

For every method, each step of a lesson is given a name which is a statement of its purpose.

In an Explanation lesson, for example, there may be four procedural steps arranged in the following way:

Remember that the names given to each step in Procedure will suggest what the trainer and/or the participants will be doing.

What sort of procedural statements can appear here?

Trainers and/or participants can: explain, instruct, direct, tell, list, identify, request, question, suggest, discuss, repeat, listen to, etc

or

demonstrate, display, draw, write, complete, show, reveal,

or

praise, correct, criticise, evaluate, assess, analyse, note, record etc.

What about the content required for each step? What should be indicated in the left hand column?

• Content describes the information, the details of skills, the materials, the examples, the key features etc necessary for the procedures to be carried out.
• Content must be appropriate to the procedural keyword.

For example:

• If the trainer demonstrates a skill, the content will list each step.
• If the trainer defines a concept, the content will list the definition.
• If the trainer questions the participants, the content will list a few of the introductory or main questions.
• If the trainer shows a film, the content will list the name, duration and key teaching points in the film.
• If the trainer organises group discussions, the content will list each group's task and possibly a seating diagram.