Managing the Learning Process

There are key elements for managing the learning process, and different ways to achieve it. First, let’s see what the process involves:

1. determining the main teaching point of the lesson;
2. ensuring pupils know what is being asked of them;
3. determining the required teaching / learning strategies to be employed in the lesson (including pupil grouping);
4. .planning how the lesson will start and end;
5. planning how the change over in activities during the lesson will be managed,  including where and how apparatus will be situated and distributed and the structure of how pupils will  move around ;
6. providing differentiated activities / tasks;
7. ensuring that sufficient and appropriate resources are available;
8. checking in equipment used;
9. provision of opportunities for feedback;
10. undertaking the appropriate risk assessment;
11. considering follow up activities – including assessment and homework.

There are 5 factors  that should be present in every lesson you plan:  the 5 Es.

The 5Es are a way of looking at lesson planning that encourages inquiry based thinking. It will help you structure your class  successfully.  This means that in your lesson, you should give yourself and the children the chance to:

* Engage , get the pupils interested in what you are going to do. Warm ups and Starters are fantastic!.

* Explore,  pupils should spend time looking at, asking questions about, making predictions and or using instruments, manipulating, specimens, objects etc.

* Explain , this is a time of discussion; it may involve pupils with pupils, pupils with the teacher, pupils engaging with ICT/the internet, pupils writing,

* Elaborate , at this stage you want your pupils to take the information they have gained and use it in another way; they may create an illustration, a project, or a connection to self, the world, other subjects.

*  Evaluate, this can be done by the teacher with discussions, in test or quiz format, using rubrics to analyze understanding. There is a variety of non conventional but yet very effective ways to assess your pupils’learning. You may want to check some in this blog.