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This was the first teacher I had when I entered the middle/high school at East Jordan. Ms. Tinney retired and is living her best life in her cottage on the lake, and is currently working towards becoming a member of the American Watercolor Society. She is extremely talented and inspiring, and was one of the first people to believe in me as an artist. She was hard on me because she saw my potential. Also, she was able to motivate even the students that were the least bit interested in art. She is so inspiring and caring and I want to be that teacher for other students.

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Naturally, the lesson plan genre is simple, straightforward, and offers a detailed description of the expectations and goals for the lessons/unit of the class.

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How Do Lesson Plans Fit Into the Teaching Discourse Community?

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How Do Lesson Plans Fit Into the Teaching Discourse Community?

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The Teacher
Lesson planning is useful in a variety of ways. For the teacher, it allows better time management and helps the lesson to run smoothly since they're able to plan ahead. Additionally, lesson plans can be revised, improved on, and reused which makes less work for the teacher in the future. Finally, planning for lessons ensures that the curriculum requirements and targets can be met.
The Student
For students, lesson plans allow them to stay engaged during the lesson and learn as much as they can from it.
Other Staff
Specifically for substitute teachers, lesson plans help to keep them on the same page as the students and helps them to guide the students through the class.

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From what I can tell, the groups most affected by lesson planning are the students and the teacher. Videos like the one above and the sample lesson plans mentioned below are important ways that lesson plans are delivered among teachers. It's important to learn from others in the same profession and examples such as this video and the lesson planning articles are perfect resources.
As for students, lesson plans are delivered indirectly. They are not delivered as a form of writing, but as actions being taken out and directions being given. A well planned lesson will have a good class as a result.

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How To Create A Lesson Plan| New Teacher

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Objectives & Outcomes

Learners will be able to demonstrate planning skills in creating a zoo animal as well as create a visual art piece appropriate for the project.

Materials Needed

masking tape

newspaper (strips and sheets)

paper mache (1 cup flour to 1 cup of water) to create a glue like consistency

paint brushes

paint (simple tempera paints will work)

Procedure

Opening to Lesson

Begin by telling students they are going to bring the zoo to school in a fun and creative way. Tell students to choose an animal from the zoo that they would like to 'create'.

Body of Lesson

Have students create a form for their animal using balled up newspaper, tape, and cardboard if available.

Make sure the form is complete and stable before adding any paper mache.

Dip strips of newspaper into the paper mache (glue) and add strips to the form to offer bulk to the new creature.

Continue until the surface is smooth and the form looks like the desired animal. This step may take several days.

Allow strips to dry completely before painting.

Closing

Have students paint their animals in appropriate colors and patterns. Display animals in a make shift zoo in the school.

*If the school has an art auction fund raiser these are great projects*

Assessment & Evaluation

Students will be assessed both on participation and final project (appropriateness, creativity, etc.)

Modification & Differentiation

Students with certain disabilities may need extended time or to create smaller projects.

Related Lesson Plans

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Paper Mache Zoo Lesson Plan | Teacher.org

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Learners will be able to demonstrate planning skills in creating a zoo animal as well as create a visual art piece appropriate for the project. masking tape newspaper (strips and sheets) paper mache (1 cup flour to 1 cup of water) to create a glue like consistency paint brushes paint (simple tempera paints will work) Begin by telling students they are going to bring the zoo to school in a fun and creative way.

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Submitted by: Barbara Rhodes, retired art teacher
Title: Gesture Drawings Introduction - Art I

Unit: Art I - Lesson 400

Total Points: (100 points per class period) = 300 points
Media:
Your choice of ink pens, ball point, Gel Pens or Felt Tip Pens ; computer paper or Drawing Paper for drawings.
Vocabulary:

Application, technique, gesture, depth, overlapping, contrast, layering, essence,
Purpose:

Want to Draw Well? Gesture Drawing is a Great Beginning! You will be introduced to gesture drawing. Gesture drawing is many things: a way to "see," a technique of drawing, an exercise, a defined "scribble", and a finished style.

Everyday objects like the above, are excellent sources for practice in learning gesture drawing skills.

Basically, gesture drawing is a method of training hands to quickly sketch what the brain has already seen. Staying "focused" means sustained concentration. Once you start drawing, don't stop--there's only 10-30 seconds to finish! As you proceed in skill development, drawings should be "grouped" with overlapped shapes and time extended up to 2 minutes. This is Gesture practice.

1. FOCUS--- constantly. The eye, a wonderful camera, estimates proportions, contours, movement, and contrasts quickly. Determine contours first, then interior shapes and shadows.
2. DRAW LIGHTLY---for the 1st "layer" as a rough draft; darker for the 2nd drawing corrections right over the 1st layer adding contrast; then, the darkest 3rd layer with deep shadows and final contours.
3. DRAW QUICKLY--- The entire image is viewed in a blink. Make the pencil follow content flashed to the brain. Keep the pencil/pen in constant circular and linear motion. Catch the form, not the details.
4. CONSTANT MOVEMENT---is a necessity. Quick, light drawing makes for easy clarifications in succeeding layers. Move eyes with quick returns without moving the head. Accuracy takes patience, perseverance and lots of practice.
5. TIMED DRAWINGS---from 10-30 seconds for skill practices of single shapes and 1-2 minutes for grouping objects together. It's a challenge only in the beginning.
6. NO ERASING. Step 2 is the key. Gesture drawing's purpose is to develop visual skills which will affect expertise. Erasing breaks focus and wastes time.

Daily Goals
1st Day
We will do as many practices as time allows. At the end of the period the gesture practices will be graded as they are shown to the teacher at the computer. Watch your grades being entered and store your art in your portfolio. Be sure all papers have your name and period on them so they can be graded.

We will set up several small still life groupings. With watercolor the placements will be established in broad brush strokes. This will be timed. At the end of the time you move to the next arrangement. By the time you come back to the original still life set up the watercolor should be almost dry. You will create a gesture drawing on top of the color, not worrying about the color being outside the lines.

First select a large page of wall paper. When you select your colors they should be reflected in the colors of the wall paper. Do the same as last class but the still life objects will be set up as single objects around the class and your are to do one at a time in the same manner you did the still life set ups from last period. Now that you are more familiar with the objects the quality of the final product should be improved from last class. Cut these out carefully. Arrange them on the wall paper in an interesting composition. Add contrast, shadows, etc to give excitement. Glue them onto the wallpaper. Finalize by the end of next class -

Fill in the Gesture Assessment. Bring the final art up to the computer with your assessment and watch your grades being recorded. Hang the best one of all your gesture drawings in the hall. Work on extra credit (see me about browsing the programs we have in the computer)
Materials Drawing Paper Books
Drawing Pencils
Kneaded Rubber Erasers (Kneaded rubber erasers won't tear the surface of the paper when erasing pencil marks)

The Art and Feel of Making it Real: Gesture Drawing for the Animation and Entertainment Industry - Gesture drawing is also used in animation in the initial stages. This book will help explain how to design and capture the essence of life through the knowledge of gesture drawing, increase observation skills and use basic design principles that will help to fuel the power of your imagination.

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Gesture drawing is a method of training hands to quickly sketch what the brain has already seen. Staying "focused" means sustained concentration. Once you start drawing, don't stop--there's only 10-30 seconds to finish! As you proceed in skill development, drawings should be "grouped" with overlapped shapes and time extended up to 2 minutes.

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In order to identify common moves and characteristics of lesson plans, I analyzed five of them. Three of the lesson plans, from the same website, were all written by the same instructor. The other two, from a different website, were written by different instructors. Therefore, I was able to analyze three different formats of lesson plans. Each format varies in information and how each lesson is described.

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In the Art Room_ Tennessee Arts Academy, 2015

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Similarities among lesson plans include:
1) grade level the lesson is intended for
2) length of time the lesson will take
3) objectives for the lesson
4) materials needed
5) procedures taken to complete the tasks
Although there were some differences in the lesson plans, these were the main characteristics that each one had.

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These main characteristics that each(or most of) the lesson plans had help to accomplish the goals of helping the teacher to run the class smoothly and the students to have a productive learning environment. Detailing the amount of time the lesson will take allows the teacher to plan ahead of the lesson and helps students to stay on track with the assignment.
Listing materials needed let's the teacher know what supplies students will need access to so they can set up the necessary materials in a way where students can easily get to them.
Having examples of past students work or demonstration videos helps students to see what their process as well as their finished product should look similar to. Additionally, it gives the teacher an expectation for students level of work.
Overall, these rhetorical moves help the teacher to outline the lesson and allow for it to be broken down and planned step by step. Having it grouped this way creates a straightforward method for planning lessons that isn't overwhelming and is easy to understand.

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Although there were some aspects of the lesson plans that appear to be required for the genre, there were some differences among each one. These differences included the topic of the lesson, a student evaluation of the project, modifications based on the evaluation, vocabulary vital to the lesson, a class discussion, and a grading rubric for the project.

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- casual language, easy to understand
- art vocabulary(artists, mediums, techniques, etc)
- abbreviations for common words(students)
- written as directions, short sentences

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These language features allow for lesson plans to be easily read and adapted by teachers even if they didn't create them. The simple and straightforward language as well as the clearly organized content makes it ideal for executing the lessons and teaching students learning objectives.

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When researching the lesson plan genre, I found the examples I listed earlier extremely helpful. Since I plan on becoming a teacher, I know it's important for me to be able to write and execute lessons. These examples of lesson plans made that requirement more tangible and made the task seem a lot less daunting. Although I know I'll be taught how to write lesson plans in college, these examples were a really good introduction.

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The moves used in lesson plans such as the grade level and length of time the lesson is made for, lists of objectives, materials, and procedures for the lesson are very useful in guiding users to help them follow the lesson or plan their own around it. The length of time allows for teachers to make a timeline of their units. Additionally, the objectives for the lessons help keep the teacher and class focused on smaller goals that will make up the general lesson. In addition to this, the procedures and materials instruct the teacher on how exactly these goals can be accomplished through the lesson. Overall, the move used in lesson plans are extremely effective in accomplishing their goal of guiding classroom instruction.

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This video discusses some ways that lesson planning is helpful, including:
1. it creates a guide for the day and a sequence of events for how the day/lesson/unit will go
2. It's a working document, which allows for teachers to look back on it during a lesson to help guide their teaching and stay on track
3. It's a record for what the class has been taught and what objectives have been covered. It allows the instructor to stay true to the syllabus and cover any teaching requirements.
4. A lesson plan can be used by other teachers to do their lessons, or used to help a sub cover the class.

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ITTT International TEFL & TESOL Training

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Lesson Planning - Part 1 - Why do we plan lessons?

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Amanda Rose. (2022, February 22). How to create a lesson plan: New teacher.[video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOopREOiIc&t=4s

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Chalk. (2021). Chapter one: Why lesson plan?https://www.chalk.com/introduction-to-lesson-planning/why-lesson-plan/

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Cyr, B. Art lesson: Animated flipbooks. Incredible @rt department. https://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/high/flipbook.html

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Rhodes, B. Art lesson: Gesture Drawing. Incredible @rt department. https://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/rhodes/gesture.html

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TEFL & TESOL Courses - ITTT. (2017, July 15). Lesson planning - Part 1: Why do we plan lessons?[video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD3VNkxC6AI

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Wills, A. Painter’s tape art lesson. Lesson Plans. https://www.teacher.org/lesson-plan/painters-tape-art/

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Wills, A. Paper mache zoo lesson. Lesson Plans. https://www.teacher.org/lesson-plan/paper-mache-zoo/

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Wills, A. Perspectives lesson. Lesson Plans. https://www.teacher.org/lesson-plan/perspectives/