A Applying the New Curriculum in Classroom

1. School Education Quality Improvement Pprogram (SEQI 2) AApplying the New Curriculum in Classroom Integrated Training Program for EnglishLanguage Master Trainers for MTs Kuwait City 2017

2. Oral communication Designing effective teaching, learning, and assessment activities for developing speaking and writing skills(Expectations?)

3. By the end of this presentation, the participants will be able to: • Discuss the key element to designing speaking activities based on active learning . • Discuss factors to consider in designing speaking activities. Objectives

4. What are the steps of Active Learning? Examples of each? In language learning, the most important thing about active learning is to motivate the learners to actually……? Objectives

5. When planning a speaking activity, the most important thing your plan must do is to create a ………..? Speaking NEED TO COMMUNICATE *What stage is this in our active learning process? *Is it easy to assess speaking competence? Why?

6. Dr. Seuss Game • Students in pairs, and/or groups. • One person from each team leaves the room. The others stay and watch. • I do something. • Students come back. Pairs/Groups have one minute to speak to the student who was outside, who asks “what did he do?” • Student who was outside must write the correct sentence on a small whiteboard and hold it up. Points for: • Accuracy and speed

7. More and more complex, as the game goes on. First round: “What did he do?” “He sat down” Second round: “What did he do?” “First he sat down, then he stood on the table.”. 3. Third round: “What did he do?” “First he sat down, then he stood on the table, last he hugged the elephant.” More and more complex with each iteration. What are the students doing? What are the students learning? Is this active learning? (What steps can you see?) Variations? What support would you provide?

8. Stages 1 of teaching speaking based on active learning 1- Motivation stage: Stimulation question/ brainstorming : The question raised should refer to the topic of the lesson. For example if the topic is about water, you can show students a picture or a video about sources of water they are familiar with and ask them: Why is water important in our life ? (More involvement for the leaners) Teaching speaking

9. Step 2: Stages of teaching speaking based on active learning • 2- (Gathering information):Assignments • Each group will have clear instructions about the outcomes they are expected to produce after their co operation to answer the following question: • Haw can we/I save water? • In a poster, students draw some expressive pictures or signs and write the necessary information they picked out from varied resources (their books or from their background…etc..). • Remark: • During these two stages, teacher can introduce some new lexical items or grammar that he feels very important to help them speak accurately about their project. Teaching speaking

10. Step 3: Stages of teaching speaking based on active learning 3- Sharing information and discussion: Students share information and discuss the reasons behind choosing such pictures or signs rather than another within their group and then with the whole class. Through a Criteria-based Assessment Chart, students choose the best work. Teaching speaking

11. Step 4: Stages of teaching speaking based on active learning: After assessing students’ work, teacher at this stage starts using the course book for having furtherinformation. He also asks students about what they can see, give their opinions ,and present information using grade level language by using the different techniques mentioned in the beginning of our presentation.

12. 4-Coclusion: Teacher can simply asks students what they have learned(accomplished)about the ways of saving water, concentrating on the new knowledge acquired. • 5- Creative application: • Asking students to think about a project that helps Kuwait to have safe drinking water . • They have to state what is the project and add information about it. (Find solutions to save water in your home-Advise your sister to save water) • They should be able to describe this project. • ( The reason behind this task is to enhance creativethinking and to refer to the specific competence that the teacher needs to assess students’ level of achievement of that competence. ) Teaching Reading

13. Step 5: Stages of teaching speaking based on active learning: Closure: The teacher revises with his learners the new lexical items or any other new knowledge or information introduced and presented in the lesson by using varied activities (work sheets ,games etc..) Teaching speaking

14. Create a speaking activity for student in 6thgrade to practice the simple past tense. You don’t need the full active learning process here. Assignment 115 minutes

15. In your activity, why do students need to communicate? Why do students want to communicate? Assignment 115 minutes

16. What should we consider when planning a speaking activity? Hint : Think Active Learning Oral CommunicationDiscussion

17. What specific competence and standard are you serving? • What do you actually want them to say to each other? • What makes the communication REAL? • Classroom Management • Structural support/reference Oral CommunicationDiscussion

18. Narrative presentation • Informative presentation • Simple interactions • Discussions/conversations • Brainstorming • Debate Types of Oral Activities(there are others)

19. ASSIGNMENT Try to choose speaking/writing competence from grade 6 or grade 7 course books and design a plan based on active learning steps. TaskPractical stage 20Minutes