Lesson Planning

Lesson planning is an important part of teaching. Laying out a set out path or plan is a must to be able to keep up. While lesson planning I believe that there should be different levels of planning a yearly, weekly, and daily plan. I liked the quote by Baily (19960 " a lesson plan is like a road map which describes where the teacher hopes to go in a lesson, presumably taking the students along". A key word in that quote is "hopes" not every lesson will go as planned and it needs to be recognized by the teacher when it is not working and they need to derive the plan. This is not alway apparent to the teaching when something doesn't work out how they would like. Student feedback could be very benificial to find out if the lesson has worked or not worked.

Cultural Consciousness

Cultural consciousness and language go hand and hand. The goal of a teacher is to get the teacher have the learner see the culture through a native speakers perspective. In order for this to happen I think the teacher should first do the same thing for their student’s culture. It is important for the teacher to have a understanding so they can understand any discourse their student might have while learning the target language. It is a two way street in learning cultures teachers and students will be learning things from each other. The importance of a familiarity of the target language is great. It will not only help with language development but is needed to interact with others in the native language. Culture can be embedded throughout all types of teachings and need to be regularly used.