CELTA lesson plan template as a basis for effective lesson planning

Abstract

Modern teachers are anxious about the question how to make foreign language lessons more effective, how to motivate students and keep their attention during the whole lesson. For continuous development of educational system in Ukraine, the instructors attend foreign language teachers’ trainings, where, for developing their own language awareness, they get acquainted with other instructors of common interests, reveal different approaches, new methods and techniques, study and discuss the implementation of those techniques in their teaching. Certainly, there are numerous institutions engaged in teacher training in Ukraine which are aimed at preparing competent teachers. But the study and implementation of positive experience of courses and educational systems of foreign countries can boost the improvement and modernization of the pedagogy and linguistic education of Ukraine. From this perspective, having been the graduator of the CELTA course (the most widely recognised English teaching qualification in the world), the author of the given paper identifies the necessary implementations in the system of training foreign language teachers in Ukraine in general and the effective planning of the lesson in particular. Being confident that one of the key components of a successful lesson is a precise lesson planning, the author analyzes the CELTA lesson plan and, based on CELTA lesson plan template, presents a detailed study and plan of the lesson carried out in one of the higher educational institutions of Ukraine (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University). The other component that is an inseparable condition of a good lesson is the consciousness of each teacher that teaching is a permanent process of change and growth, that can be achieved via self-teaching and self- evaluation.