Language and Philosophy

Have you ever travelled somewhere unfamiliar without a map? If you did, chances are you got lost, wasted some time, and wasn’t able to finish your to go list. The same happens in the classroom. Without a “map”—or a lesson plan—a teacher gets lost in her discussion, wastes valuable opportunities, and fails to do everything in her to do list. In this post, we will talk about what a lesson plan is and why it is important. What is a Lesson Plan? A lesson plan is essentially a teacher's roadmap for a particular lesson. It's an outline that guides the teacher through the instructional process, ensuring that learning objectives are met. Like any roadmap, a lesson plan is important because it helps a teacher in the following: 1. Organization It provides a structured framework for the lesson, ensuring a logical flow of activities. It helps teachers manage time effectively and stay on track. 2. Clarity It clarifies the learning objectives, specifying what students should know or be able ...

This blog post is a transcript of our YouTube video How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 5Es Format . Hello everyone! To complete our Lesson Plan series, in this video we will discuss another lesson plan format—the 5 Es or Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. What is the 5Es format? How do you use it? And how is it different from the 3Is and the 4As? This video is already the third part of our Lesson Plan series. In case you haven’t watched the first and second part yet, I recommend you watch them first before this one, so that you will have a background of the lesson plan parts and formats we have discussed so far: the 3Is and the 4As . Now to see how the 5Es format works, we will be using the same Objectives and Subject Matter from our 3Is lesson plan video. Let’s have a quick recap of these parts before we proceed. I. Objectives At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to: construct questions answerable by yes/no, and transform sentences into questions answera...

This blog post is a transcript of our YouTube video How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 3Is Format . They say that inside the classroom the teacher is the captain of the ship. As captain, he/she should have a map to help lead his/her passengers—the students—to their destination safely and surely. In other words, a teacher must have a Lesson Plan in order to make sure that the students learn the lessons. But how does a teacher make a lesson plan? Hello, dear teachers and teachers-to-be! In this 3-part video series, we will discuss how to write a lesson plan using the different lesson plan formats. In this first video, we will write the Objectives , Subject Matter and Procedure of the lesson plan using the 3Is format . In the second video, using the same Objectives and Subject Matter, we will be following the 4As format for the Procedure instead of the 3Is. While in the third video, we will be applying the 5Es format and end by writing the lesson plan’s Evaluation and Assignment . Overwh...

This blog post is a transcript of our YouTube video H ow to Write a Lesson Plan – The 4As Format . Hello, everyone! In this video, we will discuss another lesson plan format widely used by teachers—the 4As, or Activity, Analysis, Abstraction, and Application. This video is already the second part of our Lesson Plan series. If you haven’t watched the first part yet, we recommend you watch it first:  How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 3Is Format There, we discussed the most basic and the simplest lesson plan format every teacher and teacher-to-be should know—the 3Is, or Introduction, Interaction, and Integration. Now to see how the 4As format works, we’ll be using the same Objectives and Subject Matter from our 3Is lesson plan video. Let’s have a quick recap of these parts first before we proceed. I. Objectives At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to: construct questions answerable by yes/no, and transform sentences into questions answerable by yes/no II. Subject Matter...

Media literacy education first began in the United States and United Kingdom. It was a direct result of war propaganda in the 1930s and the rise of advertising in the 1960s. During that time, media was used to manipulate people’s perspective. Thus, there was a need to educate people on how to detect the biases, falsehoods, and half-truths depicted in print, radio, and television (Boyd, 2014). Media literacy is the ability to identify different types of media from a wide array of sources and understand the messages they bring (Hobbs, 1997). In its simplest form, media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. As such, it performs an important role in education, development, and innovation. Now that information comes through an interwoven system of media technologies, being media literate has become an essential skill in the 21st century. And schools, teachers, and students are constantly confronted with a challenge—the challenge of being media literate. Wh...