Overview, Prime, Drill, Check

This article describes a strategy for helping student‐teachers systematically and consciously plan their lessons. By using the sequence of “overview, prime, drill, and check,” beginning teachers can be certain that they have included an introduction and motivation to an activity, examples and review of material necessary for conducting the activity, varied and appropriate drilling techniques, and evaluation of students' progress. This sequence gives new teachers a secure base for lesson planning, and attempts in this way to reduce the insecurities and anxieties felt by so many novices at the start of their practicum. In addition, this approach can be used as a means of analyzing the teaching and learning actually accomplished in a class, first under the guidance of a supervising teacher and later by beginning and experienced teachers on their own. Thus, it could become an instrument for developing skill in self‐critiquing which may well be the most valuable and long‐lasting skill that methods teachers and supervisors can develop in their student‐teachers

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• Guidelines for Foreign Language Lesson Planning

  Open Access•Benjamin Rifkin•Foreign Language Annals•2003

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