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Task 2.1
Anticipating problems
1
Read the beginning of the following imaginary scenario and the lesson
plan.
Paul has been teaching in his placement school for about two weeks
and has been asked to take over a Year 7, mixed-ability and mixed-gender
class of 23 pupils for their Computing lessons. They are usually very well-
behaved. The class has had one hour a week of Computing for two
months, during which they have been creating a multimedia presentation
about themselves. Some pupils have also worked on their presentations at
home. The next stage is for the pupils to demonstrate to the class what
they have done, and to receive feedback from their peers. This will form
the basis of Paul's first lesson with them. The class teacher has told him to
plan the remaining part of the unit as he sees fit.
He has produced the rough plan shown in Figure 2.1
Class - Year 7
Date - 22nd November
Day - Friday
Time - 2pm
Duration - 60 minutes
1) Get them in and register (3 mins)
2) Introduce lesson (5 mins)
3) Pupil presentations (2 mins each)
4) Feedback (5 mins)
Figure 2.1 Paul's first rough lesson plan
2
Bearing in mind the information above, make rough notes in response to
the following questions:
What do you think might have happened?
How would you have planned differently?
3
Read the following notes taken by the person observing this lesson.
Pupils arrived five minutes late from the previous lesson. Teacher spent
the first ten minutes talking about experiences he had had with
multimedia in industry. Pupils were reluctant to stand up and talk, apart
from one individual who got up first and spent eight minutes talking
largely about his favourite football team. The feedback from other pupils
turned into an argument. One pupil broke down in tears when asked to
stand up at the front. Some pupils found that features they had added
to the presentation at home did not work in school. Five pupils did not
 
 
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