This post was written in response and as part of a twitter conversation with Martin Sketchley – @ELTexperiences on Twitter. His blog post on his own Dogme observed lesson can be found at the end of this post.

In the days before writing his experimental assignment for the DELTA course, Jonathan – a summer DELTA trainee – worried a lot about whether he should attempt this or not and whether a lesson plan was in order – in the days that ensued, I asked Scott Thornbury on twitter and this was his very kind response:

Doing a Dogme lesson

Jonathan, was properly flattered and smitten with the wonder of twitter and immediate feedback and started working up to this lesson 🙂

Eventually, he finished his assignment and lesson plan and you will be able to find it by clicking here

You can download both the Experimental practice assignment and lesson plan, which was more like a diagram following Scott’s suggestion.

According to Jonathan, the lesson did not go very well. After he had completed his assignment, he wrote this very disappointed blog post

Of course, It truly did not matter at all whether the lesson had worked or not; the reflection which follows a failed attempt to implement something new, something outside one’s comfort zone is perhaps much more valuable than an incidental and mechanically produced “success” – which can happen too, if you are experienced and versatile.

But here is Jonathan’s beautifully crafted diagram – it bears a lot of discussion why this lesson did not perhaps live up to its creator’s expectations. Jonathan himself has identified some of the reasons in this post lesson evaluation and discussion as well as in his blog post where he lets off a bit more steam!

Here is his diagram though – submitted as a nice alternative to column style planning.

Related Blog post

Martin Sketchley’s Unplugged Teaching Practice – Formal Observations

Postscript

I forgot to mention that this post and materials upload was with the full consent of Jonathan Aichele – I felt it was not appropriate to post before his Module 2 results to were issued, but now that he has got through this Module with flying colours… well, the sky’s the limit and on to Module 3, Jonathan, right?

References

Meddings, L., & Thornbury, S. (2017). Teaching Unplugged: Dogme in English Language Teaching. Delta Publishing.