LLFE-T01 · What Is a Lesson Aim? — Writing Learner-Facing Aims
📖 From the teacher's desk: On my CELTA course, writing lesson aims was the first thing I had to master — and the first thing I got wrong. My early aims were teacher-focused ("to teach…
Tag: Lesson Planning
Lesson Staging: A Lesson Has Stages, Not Just Activities
One observation feedback I received during my 120 supervised teaching hours stayed with me: 'The activities were good, but I couldn't see why they were in that order.' A lesson is not a pile of…
Writing Effective Lesson Aims: The One Sentence That Drives Everything
In the feedback room after a lesson observation, the first question is always the same: 'What was your main aim?' If you can't answer in one clear sentence, the lesson was probably unclear. I had…
Writing Learning Aims — What Makes a Good Lesson Objective?
🎙 From the classroom: My lesson plan from week two of teacher training had this aim: 'To improve speaking skills.' My observer handed it back. 'What will they be able to do by the end?'…
5-Min Pro · How to Plan a 45-Minute Lesson from Scratch
The idea — A lesson without a plan is a sequence of activities. A plan answers: what will learners be better able to do at the end? Everything else — tasks, stages, timing — serves…
5-Min Pro · How to Write a Lesson Aim Learners Can Actually Understand
The idea — A lesson aim is a promise to learners, not a note to the observer. If learners can’t read it and know what they’ll be doing, rewrite it.
ELT365 · Day 211 — Staging a productive skills lesson end-to-end
A complete productive skills lesson has four stages: lead-in, model and analyse, prepare, produce, feedback. Rushing the prepare stage collapses the quality of production.
Day 3: Lesson Planning Frameworks
How to Plan an ELT Lesson in 2026