ESOL Lesson Planning Resources

ESOL Lesson Plans

• Instructional Resource Collection - Aspire lesson plans, teaching strategies, and text to use in the classroom. Teaching resources have been curated and arranged by content area. Select your program role to explore a collection of resources to use in your ESOL classroom.
• Teaching the Skills that Matter – A national initiative that integrates the 9 skills that matter to adult students using 3 approaches that work across 5 critical topic areas.
• TESOL Resource Center – Contains lesson plans, teaching tips, activities, assessment tools, and much more, with new resources posted frequently.

Designing a Lesson

Tools for ESL Lesson Planning
Aspire Lesson Plan Tools:
• Lesson Plan Template is the ESOL template that can be used for Ohio Aspire ESOL lesson plans.
• Lesson Plan Rubric
• Lesson Planning Checklist for Ohio ESOL Standards

Lesson Plan Frameworks:
• Lesson Flow is a framework for lesson planning to help teachers create consistent lessons that are engaging for students. Included is a listing of instructional strategies to enhance the lesson and students’ learning experience.
• TEAL Effective Lesson Planning contains the process of planning effective lessons using the WIPPEA Model.
• Tools for ESL Lesson Planning and Sample Lesson Plan for the ESL Intermediate Low Course

Instructional Strategies

• Distance Education Strategies - Research-based instructional strategies are as useful at a distance as they are in-person.
• Go To Strategies: Scaffolding Options for Teachers of English Language Learners, K-12 - a collection of 78 instructional strategies, which reflect five research-based principles of scaffolded instruction for English language learners, organized into a searchable database in the PDN Moodle.
• Instructional strategies is a list of strategies created through LiteracyWork International’s ESL by Design approach to teaching adult ESL.
• Supports and Scaffolding Recommendations Appendix C of the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards for Adult Education report.

Assessment

• Assessing Life Skill Performance Objectives using a tools and techniques chart.
• 53 Ways to Check for Understanding from Edutopia
• Formative Assessment Strategies including tools for formative assessment, techniques to check for understanding and processing activities.
• Tools for Formative Assessment

Resources

• ESOL Instructional Websites for teachers to use in planning lessons and for students to continue their learning.
• Ohio Aspire ESOL Standards and Benchmarks Progression Tables are the current content standards for planning, teaching and assessing what students should know and be able to do.
• Ohio Aspire PDN Library is the Professional Development Network’s lending library system with over 12,000 resources available. A How-to guide and library policies are included.