Planning Lessons and Courses: Designing Sequences of Work for the Language Classroom

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Tessa Woodward

This book deals with the kinds of everyday questions working teachers face as they plan lessons and courses. Each chapter contains an analysis of the issue under discussion, as well as practical principles and sample activities.

Genres: Teaching, Education

266 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2001

About the author

Tessa Woodward was a teacher, teacher trainer, and the Professional Development Co-ordinator at Hilderstone College, Broadstairs, Kent, UK. She also edited the Teacher Trainer journal for Pilgrims, Canterbury, UK. She was President of IATEFL from 2005-6. She is the author of many books and articles for language teachers and for teacher trainers.
But now she is enjoying the switch to writing short stories, many of which have featured on BBC Radio Kent's 'Upload' programme. Her first extended book of fiction, called 'In the Middle of Somewhere', was published by KDP and is available in e-book and paperback format via Amazon.
Her brand new collection of 16 short stories is out now. It is called 'Small Crimes' The stories are by turns amusing and serious and are about people behaving less well than they should. Be prepared to be mildly appalled! Available as an e-book, paper or hardback via Amazon.
Her website is at: https://www.tessaswriting.co.uk/

Reviews

[Jake]

Mostly aimed a new teachers who don't know what they're doing. But unit 6, How we can vary the activities we do?, is invaluable and offers a number of practical tips.

All in all it was okay and worth my time for reviewing. It's not written in the usual, stale academic-ese that permeates the teacher training genre (which I happen to like). It's more akin to a friendly blog, despite having been written before blogging became a thing.

If you
are a new teacher,
just don't know what the hell you're doing,
or you just want new ideas because you're an old dog attempting new tricks,
this is for you.

[Troy Wilkinson]

A good introductory book for teachers and especially those looking into teaching English (or any language) abroad.

[Lys Pìneda]

i want to read the book

[Steph]

Woodward uses some gardening metaphors that aren't to my taste--which is, I guess, a minor quibble. However, her book includes a number of useful tidbits of advice for organizing courses, from keeping track of students' names (something I'm dreading with upcoming classes of 80 students!) to catering to different learning styles. It's a nice review of what I learned in my TESOL class, and then some.

[Rachel]

although it has some good points, overall it's quite general. it does have some good references though.