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Contributed by Jeff Magoto

This lesson plan, What Makes an Ideal Teacher, was developed by the course team and used as one of the examples in the peer-evaluation phase of the first MOOC course, Paths to Success in ELT. (See Mr. Magoto's accompany Topic of the Week here) The lesson plan below and the accompanying rubric (available here) were the topics of our “massive” course webcasts (more than 50 attendees in each) where we used a combination of lecture and small group learning to further our goals of increasing interaction among participants.

The intent of our lesson planning tasks was, of course, methodological: improving the process, substance, and critical awareness of language that a teacher brings to her daily preparation.

But as in most MOOCs where computer grading is not possible because of the size of the course, peer evaluations serve two purposes: they provide feedback, and they open up another area of inquiry for the course community, in this case, learning about different teaching contexts and the opportunities and constraints that are inherent in them.

Download the lesosn plan here.