The Ideal Lesson Plan

John Conner has presented his dynamic workshop THE IDEAL LESSON PLAN: TEN STEPS TO TOTAL FLUENCY to teachers throughout the country. By offering ten great activities to do in the classroom or at home, he helps students along the path to total fluency. In past issues of BREAKING NEWS, our Quarterly Newsletter, John has highlighted each one of these steps.

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We have enclosed links to each of those steps below. Try them yourselves and see what you think. We hope you find them helpful.

The Ideal Lesson Plan:  Ten Steps to Making Your Students Fluent

• Step 1: The Warm-Up
• Step 2: Organization 
• Step 3: New or Old Grammar
• Step 4: Go Over Homework! 
• Step 5: Literature
• Step 6: Student Presentation - Show and Tell! 
• Step 7: Memory Work 
• Step 8: The Guión Series
• Step 9:  In-Class Writing 
• Step 10:  Free-Flow Discussion