Two Interactive Lessons

1. Two Interactive Lessons Based on The Communicative Language Approach and Cooperative Learning

2. Communicative Language Teaching Approach • Interaction is both a means and a goal. • It’s Process Oriented. • The Learner’s Personal Experiences are highlighted. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_language_teaching#Classroom_activities_used_in_CLT

3. Cooperative Learning • Small Teams • Diverse skills, abilities, learning styles, backgrounds • Task based activities

4. Cooperative LearningBasic Elements • Positive Interdependence (The group sinks or swims together) • Face to Face Interaction • Both Individual and Group Accountability • Interpersonal Skills • Group Processing (Roles, Responsibilities & Communication)

5. Links to Cooperative Learning • http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm • http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/cooplrng.asp • http://literacy.kent.edu/cra/cooperative/coop.html • http://www1.fccj.edu/mxgorman/sccl/lesson_plans.htm

6. Inside-Outside Circle Goal – Communicative Interaction Applicability: • Introduce new material or review previous content • Create open ended questions or discreet point items • Adapt to any content area

7. Benefits • It builds rapport • It provides a quick change of pace and energy boost • It targets different learning styles • It’s FUN!

8. Special Considerations • Arrange classroom furniture to provide space for circle(s). • On nice days, students love to go outside. • Students with physical disabilities can easily participate by sitting in chair in inner circle.

9. Lesson Preparation • Write questions on index cards (open-ended, short answer, or discreet point). • Write answers, clues, prompts or nothing on back. • Prepare half as many cards as the number of students in your class.

10. Lesson Implementation • Have students count out-loud “One, Two, One, Two”. • Have all the “ones” form an outward facing “inside” circle. • Have all the “twos” stand in front of them to form an “outside” circle. • Explain the process. “Inside circle” never moves. “Outside circle” moves one step to right upon instructor direction. • Give one index card to each member of the “inside circle”. • Students ask their partners the question and listen to/discuss the answers. • Direct students to hand cards to their partners. • Direct “outside circle” to take one step to the right and ask the question. • Continue the process.

11. Information Gap Goal – Students collaborate to find missing information and complete a task. Applicability • Introduce new material or review previous content. • Adapt to any content area. Benefits • It builds rapport. • It works well with differing skill levels and learning styles. • It enhances communication and social skills.

12. Lesson Preparation • Create two handouts, A and B, each with different items missing. • Depending on the content area and goals, the handouts can take many different forms such as: Pictures Graphs Written Passages Mathematical Formulas Lists

13. Lesson Implementation • Have students work in pairs and give one student handout A and the other handout B. • Instruct them to collaborate to find the missing information.

14. Depending upon the content area and goal of the lesson, this collaboration may take many forms such as: • Discussing the deleted points of an argument • Figuring out the missing steps of a mathematical equation • Determining the needed supporting points of a topic sentence • Identifying the missing punctuation of a citation • Noticing differences between two pictures • Etc.

15. Student A Present PastPast Participle drink drank _____ think _____ _____ _____ took _____ ride _____ ridden _____ wrote _____ bring _____ brought _____ swam _____ cut _____ cut ( ETC.) Student B Present PastPast Participle _____ _____ drunk _____ thought thought take _____ taken _____ rode _____ write _____ written _____ brought _____ swim _____ swum _____ cut _____ ( ETC.) Sample Information Gap ActivityIrregular Verbs

16. Thanks for your time, and have FUN: • Interacting • Communicating • Collaborating • Learning