What is TPR?

Total Physical Response known worldwide as TPR

To ensure success, pretest a few lessons before you enter your classroom. Try the lessons out with your children, your friends or your neighbors. In doing this, you
become convinced that TPR actually works,
build self-confidence in the approach, and
smooth out your delivery.
For Students of All Ages, Including Adults
Use TPR for new vocabulary and grammar, to help your students immediately understand the target language in chunks rather than word-by-word. This instant success is absolutely thrilling for students. You will hear them say to each other, “Wow! I actually understand what the instructor is saying.”
After a “silent period” of about three weeks listening to you and following your directions in the target language (without translation), your students will be ready to talk, read and write. InshaAllah :)

Sample of Lesson Plan

Sample of Lesson Plan

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Daily Lesson Plans

Daily Lesson Plans
Purpose
Lesson plans are not written for teachers to read to the class. They are used to structure the lesson and to help with the flow of the class, especially when something has occurred to distract everyone, including the teacher.
Thinking Parts
Lesson plans are first of all a thinking process. This thinking process basically is completed in four parts.
First, determine the curriculum; that is, what the children will learn, what they will be able to do upon completing the activities or work of the lesson.
Second, determine what the students already know, before beginning the lesson, that can lead into the new curriculum of the day.
Third, determine at least one way to assist the students in learning the new curriculum.
Fourth, determine at least one way to evaluate the learning outcomes of the students.
Written Format
There are many different formats that can be used to write daily lesson plans. Formats that are most useful are very simple to follow and are well structured. An outline format can be used very easily during class for quick references by the teacher. It can be followed and accessed very quickly by the teacher in case there is a distraction or in case the teacher loses his (her) train of thought.
The following is one type of outline format for writing daily lesson plans.
First, write the student academic behavioral learning objective based on the thinking parts above (especially the first and fourth steps; that is, what the students will be able to DO upon completing the lesson, and what student academic knowledge will be evaluated as a result).
Second, follow steps A, B, and C as follows.

A: What the students already know when they enter the lesson(prerequisites)
Review any prerequisite knowledge that will lead easily into the new curriculum.
B: Core lesson (what the teacher and the students do)
Be sure to include the exact examples, problems, projects, or activities that will be used.
C: The NEW curriculum that whenever the students exit the lesson they know it (objective of the lesson)
Review and stress again all of the most important points of the core lesson.
Note: The thinking parts involve thinking about A, B, and C above in this order. First determine C, then determine A (pretest if necessary), and finally determine and develop B :)

Lesson planning...who needs it, or needs to know how to do it?

Lesson planning...who needs it, or needs to know how to do it? Well, maybe you do! Lesson planning is a special skill that is learned in much the same way as other skills. It is one thing to surf the Net to retrieve lesson plans from other sites and adapt them to your needs. It is quite another thing to have the skill to develop your own lesson plans. When you are able to create your own lesson plans, it means you have taken a giant step toward "owning" the content you teach and the methods you use, and that is a good thing. Acquiring this skill is far more valuable than being able to use lesson plans developed by others. It takes thinking and practice to hone this skill, and it won't happen overnight, but it is a skill that will help to define you as a teacher. Knowing "how to" is far more important than knowing "about" when it comes to lesson plans, and is one of the important markers along the way to becoming a professional teacher. It is also in keeping with a central theme of this site that you should learn to plan lessons in more than one way. The corollary is, of course, that there is no one "best way" to plan lessons. Regardless of the form or template, there are fundamental components of all lesson plans that you should learn to write, revise, and improve. The old adage, "Practice doesn't make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect" is at the core of learning this skill. Trust me on this.