Lesson Planning

Stating Objectives

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Language and Computer Objectives

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Web- based CALL Lesson

Well written objectives state that someone (the learner) will do something (behavior) somehow (performance criteria) under certain conditions. They should use an action verb and include a quantifiable measure to evaluate student performance.

These are the objectives for our lesson plan

Content Area	Getting to know each other (personal information), Geography.
Language Objectives	Lower Intermediate ESL students working in small groups will be able to write a paragraph using the comparative and superlative to compare and contrast the different countries represented in the classroom with less than 2 errors. Lower Intermediate ESL students working in pairs will ask and answer predetermined geographical information questions with 100% accuracy.
Computer Objectives	Lower Intermediate ESL students will be able to navigate a Web site to discover predetermined information about the different countries represented in the classroom with 100% accuracy.
Social and Cultural Objectives (Often difficult to measure)	Lower Intermediate ESL students will get know to their classmates better and increase their knowledge of the cultures represented in the classroom.

Lesson Plan Overview

Too many CALL lessons involve students staring at a computer screen and not interacting with their classmates. An effective CALL lesson includes the same ingredients that make for a good traditional language learning lesson. It should:

Be fun.
Get students to interact with each other.
Address different learning styles.
Be meaningful to students.

Our objectives will be met by having students go to a Web site to collect geographical information about a few of the countries represented in the classroom. Students will then interview each other to collect the information for the remainder of the countries represented in the class. They will then work in small groups to write a paragraph that compares the different countries.

Let's look at the Country Comparison Lesson plan.