WIPPEA

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Definition

• WIPPEA is a lesson planning method.

• The acronym WIPPEA represents the first letter of each stage in the lesson planning model: Warm-up, Introduction, Presentation, Practice, Evaluation, Application.

The design method

According to Writing lesson plans, the desing principles are the following.

• Each learning concept builds on the previous one
  • This becomes the instructional roadmap for teachers

• Teachers plan lessons with the result in mind, according to the backwards design method. Teachers defines:
  • The lesson's objective
  • The evaluation of mastery of the objective. E.g. he asks himself “How will I expect students to demonstrate understanding or mastery of this objective? What type of evaluation activity will best assess students' ability to learn and apply their new knowledge?”

• Then, the teachers designs the lesson activities according to the WIPPEA stages:
  1. Warm-up #*Introduction #*Presentation #*Practice #*Evaluation, Application

Links

• Writing lesson plans from OTAN Online Lesson Plan Builder for adult educators

Templates

• Word blank template