planning for learning

Planning a lesson is not more the simple answer to the question...what am I going to teach? No, things are different now.  The question does not strictly consider my intentions, but the especific purpose and ways to accomplish the learners´ final goals. And, which are the learners´ final goals? The  answer depends on the learner´s age,  and age comes to imply multiple interests, needs, styles, previous knowledge, profiles, etc,. aspects that determine the great heterogeneity that we find in our classrooms. Then, one of our challenges through planning is to engage these heterogeneous groups, motivate them and address them towards an effective learning process. Effectiveness that, on  the one hand might come to meet all those aspects mentioned before that make the students every different individual, whereas on the other might be reflected on the development of skilfullness, competitiveness and productivity at worthy work as well as mastery on demostrating understanding and proficiency on the use of resources available to support their learning and tranferring their knowledge when performing in the real world.
It seems that clearest goals on what desired learning outcomes refer, the simplest, achievable, aplicable and successful the learner´s task will be. Ours also.

understanding

Let´s start a new year at school.
How much English do students remember? or how much English do they appear to have learnt the previous year? -  Probably  a few words or rather poor phrases to decribe holiday or an interesting summer experience.
This is the most frequent complain that teachers are used to sharing among them.
Why does this happen?
Teachers perhaps have failed in helping the students to get skillfully developed on the appropriate and significant aspects of the language they needed.
However, in my opinion this is not the explanation for this situation. I think the most important FACT,( because it is  real)is that the majority of the chilean students,  especially adolescents do not understand why they have to studey and hence why they have to learn a second language. They are unable to grasp the advantages that           being english skilled means and will mean in the future.