Becoming the best of both worlds: AI-enhanced Lesson Planning

身為英語老師的你，是否也感受到 AI 這股浪潮正洶湧而來？別擔心！學會駕馭 AI，不只不會被取代，反而能讓你的教學功力更上一層樓！想知道如何運用 ChatGPT、Gemini 這些當紅的 AI 工具，讓你的教案設計如有神助，省時又省力嗎？甚至能打造出專屬的英語教材和活動？這一系列的講座，就是要帶你掌握 AI 的魔法，讓你的英語教學煥然一新！

Whether you like it or not, the era of AI has arrived and is reshaping the landscape of English teaching. Educators who have already mastered lesson planning are becoming more effective and efficient with the help of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, as well as one-stop AI platforms such as Tweek and Magic School AI. At the request of Prof. Miyuki from the English Department at NKNU, I had the honor of sharing my learning journey with aspiring teachers through this series of presentations. My goal is to facilitate the use of AI in lesson planning for authentic teaching scenarios.

Lesson Planning with Intercultural Communication and Critical Thinking

Unit 6: Lesson Planning

1. Overview description of your students (how many, age, language level, and purposes for studying English)

As a junior high English teacher here in Taiwan, I teach three classes, including a normal class of 28 students, a gifted class of 2, and the International Cultural Exchange Club of 18 this school year. There is a huge gap between their English levels. With the normal class, my main concern is to make sure I’ve covered everything in the textbooks, while the other two classes allow me much more freedom to create more challenging tasks, such as Skype sessions, making English-speaking videos, and so on. Therefore, the purposes of studying English for these two approaches also differ significantly from each other.

2. What aspect(s) of critical thinking does this lesson work on?

Of all the critical thinking skills mentioned in the previous lessons, I'd like to choose "Description & Interpretation" for the main target objective of my lesson plan. Students nowadays are constantly overwhelmed with loads of information from social media. Being able to distinguish facts and opinions is becoming more and more important. 

2017 MOE Principal Instructional Leadership Workshop

Developing interdisciplinary and custom-made learning materials aiming for reading comprehension and real application

It was completely my honor to be assigned and take on this huge task, with a group of principals and professors observing throughout the entire class. On top of that,
in order to demonstrate interdisciplinary collaborations for future workshops, I also worked closely with the students' homeroom teacher, who teaches Scouting Activity, and developed custom-made reading materials to depict the host school's camping trip next month.  

Competency-based Lesson Planning

Six integrated and cross-curricular lesson planning ideas and seven teaching practices that would go well with the new national curriculum guidelines

British Council TaiwanTask-Based Learning Certificate: Lesson Planning and Microteaching

Lesson Planning

"This is actually the third TBL workshops I've attended. Ever since the first one, I started putting what I learned into practice and did many teaching demonstrations within and outside of my school. On top of that, I'm an English teacher who loves to create an authentic environment for my students to really use the language. I've conducted several Skype exchange projects with my partners outside of Taiwan. As shown this morning, we began making English videos to introduce the beauty of Taichung with this lesson plan and its tasks. It works like magic."       

Final reflection at the workshop by Guo-jhen

Task Based Learning Workshop

Getting Inspired Once Again towards TBL and its Lesson Planning

I attended the Task-Based Learning workshop held by the Ministry of Education and British Council Taiwan for the first time over two years ago and already have done many teaching demonstrations, English camps, and Skype exchange projects with principles and techniques learned from this brilliant English teaching approach since then. However, as soon as I learned about there would be a five-day TBL workshop this week by the very same lecturer, I immediately decided to sign up for the THIRD time and enjoyed every class of it.  

Experimental Bilingual Teaching Program

A cross-curricular collaboration in bilingual lesson planning through open fire cooking with sesame oil chicken with rice wine

2019 Dream to the Power of N: New Taipei City

Workshop Ideas

Sharing EMI, international video conferencing, and lesson planning strategies with a live demo and a series of hands-on tasks

Competency-based Teaching Practices and Lesson Planning Strategies

Sharing competency-based teaching practices and lesson planning strategies with pre-service teachers, complete with a video call to create an English environment

How to Conduct International Video Conferencing in the Classroom

Engaging the teachers with a live video call, lesson planning strategies, and a hands-on experience with Skype settings

The main idea for this workshop is to show the teachers how to conduct a Skype exchange session in the classroom. The purpose is for students to experience how to communicate in the language with their neighboring Asian counterparts or English-speaking teachers on Skype.

Dream to the Power of N: 2018 Taichung

Sharing simple but effective lesson planning workflow with international education

Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting

Lesson Planning

Week 1: Orientation; Culture

Unit 1: Let's Introduce Ourselves

My name is Li Guo-jhen. You can call me Guo Jhen. I'm from Taiwan and live in the third largest city, Taichung. I've been teaching in a public junior high school as an English teacher for more than 13 years. My students are ranging from 13 to 15 years old. Even though most Taiwanese students begin learning English officially in the first or second year of elementary school, I think their level is in between A2 and B1, based on CEFR standard (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Also, I am a member of the English Advisory Team of Taichung. We organize workshops for all the junior high English teachers, so I have plenty of opportunities to attend and also share at workshops for English teaching. Also, I've applied for E-Teacher programs twice. Last summer, I got accepted into 2017 Intensive Sessions/Camps Exchange Program and had a wonderful chance to learn about how summer camps are run in the States.

Korean Sister School's Educational Visit

Lesson Planning & Logistical Arrangements

KMJH’s Official YouTube Channel’s Coverage

Doing a DAMN GOOD job with two ceremonies, eight classes, and two homestays for the sister school partnership between Kyungpook National University Middle School and Taichung Municipal Kuang-Ming Junior High School

Core Competency, Alternative Curriculum, and Lesson Planning with TBL

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To promote Task-Based Learning and develop feasible school-developed curriculum, I accepted an invitation from Nani, one of the major textbook publishers, in the hope that in-service teachers can be better prepared for the demanding challenges brought by the implementation of the new national curriculum guidelines.

EMI Cross-curricular Teaching: When DNA Meets English

English as a Medium of Instruction

EMI Cross-curricular Teaching: When Lantern Meets English

Teaching heredity and traits and how to extract DNA from bananas through English

Teaching English Through English Made Easy: HanLin B2U3 Which Painting Do You Like?

 

Ready-made plug-and-play activity ideas for teaching the use of 'which' and 'how much' questions to inquire about preferences or prices, including Canva slides and English activity instructions

Teacher Selection: Teaching Demonstration and Job Interview

What makes a good teaching demonstration?
A Fantastic Teaching Demonstration by My Student Teacher

Sharing dos and don'ts, key elements, and structures of a teaching demo and answering any questions

Collaborative Lesson Planning with Akiko and Bettie

Akiko, Bettie與Guo-jhen視訊空中共同備課:

1. 交換第一次視訊交流之心得及共同檢討問題缺失

2. 決定第二次交流主題及進行的流程

3. 共同發展學習單以利提供學生必要英語用法之鷹架

4. 再度確認二校學生交流之目標

Ever since Akiko and I determined to make this international video conferencing happen regardless of all the hurdles ahead of us this September, we have been doing “collaborative lesson planning” through Skype many times. Besides our passion and dedication to this project, the idea is that we need to come up with workable lesson plans, worksheets and other materials to meet the goal of effective communication between both sides.

A Teaching Demonstration with a Live Skype Session

Teaching so many classes with students I never met, this one is by far the most impressive in terms of their speaking skills.  

Bringing the World into the Classroom

Sharing project ideas of international education with native English-speaking teachers of New Taipei City

I was absolutely excited as well as nervous to share my greatest passion for English teaching with over thirty native speakers at Jiangcui Junior High School. It put not only my English speaking but presentation skills to the test. Of course, I still made some minor mistakes, but based on their anonymous feedback, I was also proud that I nailed it as a presenter whose first language is not English.