🏫 How to prepare lessons or activities for children?
In general: 12 wise lessons (Surma et al., 2019)
When you prepare lessons in Flanders, you always try to work towards the goals described by the school and by yourself. In addition, you try to make your lesson attractive by taking into account the next building blocks:
- Activate prior knowledge.
- Give a clear, structured instruction and set clear but challenging goals in a motivating learning environment by
preparing your lessons profoundly. - Give examples and demonstrate skills.
- Combine word and image, work visually.
- Let the content be actively processed, forget lecturing alone!
- Track if everybody understood the content.
- Provide support in difficult tasks e.g. scaffolding.
- Use time wisely e.g. by working gradually over several weeks.
- Provide variety in exercises.
- Use evaluation as a learning strategy e.g. integrate quizes as retrieval practice.
- Provide feedback that make children think, do not give solutions.
- Let children learn effectively, learn them how to learn e.g. learning strategies.
Lesson subjects
In the table below, you find possible lesson subjects and guidelines for a lesson plan.
- Template lesson plan Template lesson plan downloaden
- Example of a lesson plan Example of a lesson plan downloaden
Work gradually towards your goal: orientation -> instruction -> exercise -> conclusion.
Music |
Learn the children a song in your mother language, in English, in another language you can speak, ... |
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Art |
Learn the children about a famous artist of your country and make art with the children inspired by that artist. |
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Social Environmental and Scientific Education (SESE) |
Learn the children about the cultural, social, geographical aspects of your country or region. Learn the children some cooking recipes that are typical in your country. |
Cooking:
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Physical Education |
Learn the children typical games and sports of your country. |
Advice: wear yourself a sporty outfit (or change clothes as well) |
Mathematics |
Learn the children about operations, fractions, ... |
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Language |
Learn the children about your language or another foreign language (other than Dutch). |
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