NATIONAL CAPS ORIENTATION 2012 LANGUAGES INTERMEDIATE PHASE

FROM CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS TO LESSON PLANNING OUTCOMES: 1.DETERMINE WHICH ELEMENTS/FEATURES CONSTITUTE A LESSON PLAN. 2.IDENTIFY CHALLENGES TEACHERS MIGHT EXPERIENCE TO EXTRACT MEANING FROM THE PRESCRIBED TEACHING PLAN. 3.DEVELOP EXEMPLAR LESSON PLANS FOR A 2 WEEK CYCLE 2

FROM CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS TO LESSON PLANNING Reduction of overload: Two levels of planning removed as per recommendations of Review Committee CAPS provides specific details on what teachers ought to teach and assess on a grade-by-grade CAPS has been strengthened and simplified, it PROVIDES the teacher with a teaching plan PROVIDED are skills, weeks, activities, time per activity etc 3

FROM CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS TO LESSON PLANNING The teaching plan indicates the minimum content to be covered every two weeks per term. ( Section 3.3 of CAPS) Different texts have been used as a basis for designing the two-week cycle. It is recommended that teachers select themes to enable them to link the activities successfully.

FROM CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS TO LESSON PLANNING CAPS is actually talking to a lesson plan (very loudly so. e.g. introduce activity, identify characters, recall main ideas etc) Why plan if CAPS has provided details of what needs to be done in the classroom? 5

FROM CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS TO LESSON PLANNING Specific details such as prior knowledge, strategies of introducing an activity, type of questions to be asked, source of text to be used, reading strategies, type of assessment, etc needs to be planned by the teacher before actual presentation of the lesson. 6

FROM CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS TO LESSON PLANNING A lesson plan is a guide/map of where you want to go/want to achieve, in detail A lesson plan also helps to talk to a substitute teacher When planning a lesson, key features should be adhered to without prescribing the format of the template to be used. 7

FEATURES OF A LESSON PLAN GRADE, DATE; DURATION TOPIC SKILLS:-Listening & speaking, Reading and viewing; Writing and language structures (INTEGRATED) AIMS/OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES & RESOURCES ASSESSMENT DIFFERENTIATION 8

LESSON PLANNING cont… GROUP ACTIVITY 1.IN YOUR GROUPS, READ EXTRACT FROM CAPS HL AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW. (6O MINUTES) 9

FROM WORKBOOK TO LESSON PLAN WORKBOOKS HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED TO ALL SCHOOLS AS A RESOURCE, IN ADDITION TO TEXT BOOKS. THE TOPICS IN THE WORKBOOKS HAVE BEEN STRUCTURED IN TERMS OF THE TOPICS TO BE COVERED PER TERM IN THE CAPS. (NB: EARLIER VERSIONS MAY NOT BE IN LINE) THE TEACHING PLAN IN THE CAPS IS THE STARTING POINT. 10

FROM WORKBOOK TO LESSON PLAN THE KEY IS BUILDING-IN THE EXERCISES IN THE WORKBOOKS IN YOUR PLANNING. THE TEACHER NEED NOT BE PRESSURISED TO FOLLOW THE EXERCISES IN A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. WORKBOOKS MUST BE USED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND THIS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY BUILDING THE EXERCISES WITHIN THE PLAN FOR THE TERM 11

Activity Design a lesson plan that indicates how you would build the exercises in the workbook into the planning of the 2-week cycle. Refer to the extract from the workbook on pages of the activities manual. 12

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