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LESSON PLANNING: SELECTED REFERENCES
(last updated 29 December 2014)
Bailey, K. (1996). The best laid plans: Teachers’ in-class decisions to depart from their lesson
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Bigelow, M. (2010). “If you can speak in time, you’re fine”: Preservice teachers learning to plan
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Bigelow, M. (2010). Learning to plan for a focus on form in CBI: The role of teacher knowledge
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Bigelow, M., & Ranney, S. (2005). Pre-service ESL teachers’ knowledge about language and its
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Bruetsch, A. (1998). Multiple intelligences lesson plan book. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press.
Bullough, R. V. (1987). Planning and the first year of teaching. Journal of Education for
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Ho, B. (1995). Using lesson plans as a means of reflection. English Language Teaching Journal,
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John, P. D. (2006). Lesson planning and the student teacher: Re-thinking the dominant model.
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John, P. D. (1994). The integration of research validated knowledge with practice: Lesson
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John, P. D. (1991). Course, curricular and classroom influences on the development of student
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Kagan, D., & Tippins, D. J. (1992). The evolution of functional lesson plans among twelve
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Li, D. (1998). It’s always more difficult than you plan and imagine: Teachers’ perceived
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Maclennan, S. (1987). Integrating lesson planning and class management. English Language
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McCutcheon, G., & Milner, H. R. (2002). A contemporary study of teacher planning in a high
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Mutton, T., Hagger, H., & Burn, K. (2011). Learning to plan, planning to learn: The developing
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Panasuk, R. M., & Todd, J. (2005). Effectiveness of lesson planning: Factor analysis. Journal of
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Reeves, A.R. (2011). Where great teaching begins: Planning for student thinking and learning.
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Rule, S. H. (1994). Rethinking the lesson plan. TESOL Journal, 4(1), 48-49.
Sardo-Brown, D. (1996). A longitudinal study of novice secondary teachers' planning: Year two.
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Scott, L. (2003). Planning lessons and courses. English Language Teaching Journal, 57(1), 8890. doi:10.1093/elt/57.1.88.
So, W. W-M. (1997). A study of teacher cognition in planning elementary science lessons.
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Swartz, R. J., & Parks, S. (1994).Infusing the teaching of critical and creative thinking into
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Yildirim, A. (2003). Instructional planning in a centralized school system: Lessons of a study
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