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Teacher Training Sessions for Primary and Secondary Teachers of English in Ilia January and February 2014
This picture is your English class. What is the message it sends to the teacher?
For a fair selection, everybody will take the same test: please climb that tree.
Emotional maturity,
Learning goals, expectations and needs Learning difficulties
Existential
Differentiation
is a teachers response to learners needs
guided by general principles of differentiation
Meaningful tasks
Quality Curriculum
Flexible grouping
Continual assessment
Building Community
Content
Process
Product
Affect/Environment
According to students
Readiness
Interests
Learning Profiles
Readiness
Interests
Styles
: we differentiate the input, the tasks and the way our students show what they have learnt.
Scaffolding
Reinforcing autonomy Varying material Flexible grouping Encouraging choice
This picture can be used in a grammar-focused lesson. Can you a) determine the main teaching aim and b) justify the use of the picture as a teaching tool?
KUD Teaching
K
U D
Know
Understand Do
Concepts, principles, rules, generalisations Skills Basic skills Skills to develop during the lesson Thinking skills Planning skills Cooperative skills Autonomous learning skills
Cubing
1. Describe It Look at the subject closely (perhaps with your senses in mind).
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5. 6.
Teaching as an equalizer
Providing choice
Writing a review
Choice 1 Restaurant Choice Choice 3 Movie Choice
2
Book
4
Video game
Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the introduction to the closing.
Write two paragraphs Write two paragraphs about the main about the setting. character.
Think-Pair-Share
Work on a topic Discuss about the topic with a partner
Share your ideas with others
We set the pairs
WE set the topic/question
Director of orchestra
Coach
Jazz musician
Flexible grouping
group)
8. Tasks are checked by the expert before submitted
9. We assign responsibility to students 7. We encourage students to evaluate their findings 8. We evaluate every student according to personal output, not
in relation to others
Product types
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Ideas
Concepts
Information
Content
Material
Organisation
Research
Aims
Procedure
Editing
Learning Contract 1
Name _______________________ My question or topic is: To find out about my question or topic I will read: I will look at and listen to: I will write:
I will draw:
I will need:
Assessing right
Summative assessment
Formative assessment
Diagnostic assessment
Learning aims
Peer evaluation Portfolio Observation Quiz Talk around Self-evaluation Questioning Exit Card