Teacher Preparation in Teaching Young Learners

1. Teacher Preparation in Teaching Young Learners (classroom languages, planning a lesson, checking understanding and ending a lesson)

2. Group 4 A2 PB. INGRRIS 2015

3. Content

4. Classroom Language Second Language First Language Knowing your children learn

5. Illustration

6. Teacher preparation 1 Preparation for course session • Read the instruction to the book • Read the outline contents and introduction to each unit • Read the beginnings of sections where some rational is given • Prepare some ideas for topic talk or storytelling

7. 2 Follow up to course session • Listen to the classroom extracts on the CD again • Practice their personal pronunciation and intonation using the CD • Record themselves and play back their recordings • Prepare to talk about activities that they have done with their own learners

8. 3 Preparation for class activities • Prepare new activities to try out in class or in group session • Write their journal and keep up a language notebook • Keep a record of successful activities and teaching materials for a portfolio

9. Teacher tips Helping children learn a new language

10. Starting your lesson in English Are you a class teacher Or Are you a specialist teacher?

11. Greetings and forms address

12. Checking attedance

14. Ways of starting lessons • Class Teachers • do something different so that everyone knows it’s time for English, e.g sing a special song • Wear something special during the lesson, e.g a badge, a hat • Stand in a different place or arrange the room differently. • Put up a picture or get out toys that children associate with English

15. Specialist Teachers • Plan something familiar in English at the beginning of the lesson to make the change of teacher easier • Use a special name chart to check who’s present. • Prepare a routine that the children like, e.g sing a song or say a rhyme.

16. Organizing the classroom • While preparing your lesson, make a list of classroom language for each activity. • Prepare to say all of this in English during the lesson. • Use songs and rhymes when you change from one activity to another, e.g an action song to start a game. • Encourage your pupils to use English for routine classroom request by praising any effort they make. • Use well charts or posterts to help children remember what you are doing in the English class

17. Checking for Understanding (Cfu)

18. What is Checking for Understanding (CFU)? CFU is the teacher continually verifying that students are learning what is being taught while it is being taught.

19. Why It Is Important o Use CFU? • Allows you to make instructional decisions during the lesson. • Monitor student progress in real time so as not to wait until formal assessments in order to rerevise lessons. • To ensure that students are not practicing and reinforcing mistakes. Practice makes permanent, not perfect.

20. CFU Strategies Teach, then ask a question Students need to think of the answer and hold it mentally Teacher needs to call on students randomly

21. ENDING A LESSON

22. The Best Ways To Ending A Lesson • Leave time for completion of communication books. • If you’re giving homework make sure children understand how to do it. • Use good bye song • Tidying up the classroom to a song • Exit passes

23. Thank you!