[MUSIC] Welcome back to Teach English Now. And welcome to our third course, lesson design and assessment. >> In this course we will present some of the fundamental building blocks for designing lessons in your classroom. We will discuss how to create sound learning objectives, lesson plans that consider the end from the very beginning, and give you a general view of how lesson plans are designed. >> We will also give you a little background into theories of instructional design, and give you an overview of ways in which to engage your learners at each step of the learning process. During several videos we will spend time trying to share not only how to plan and teach a lesson, but we will spend time showing you how not to plan and teach. Our hope is that you will avoid some of the common pitfalls of language instruction. We are doing this so that you don't fall victim to the same mistakes that many of us have committed on our way to becoming language teaching professionals. >> I sure made a lot of mistakes when I was a young teacher. You know, what you said reminds me of a saying. Smart people learn from their own experiences, but super smart people learn from other people's experiences. And I guess you can say that our greatest hope in giving you this third course is that you can learn from both of us, both the good and the bad, so you can truly be not just smart, but super smart. Thanks for joining us on Teach English Now, lesson design and assessment. [MUSIC]