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Adapting Learning Materials: Strategies and Principles

Learn how to adapt and adopt learning materials effectively to engage students' diverse interests and enhance learning outcomes. Explore strategies for rearranging, simplifying, and personalizing content. Discover key principles in evaluating and selecting educational resources.

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Adapting Learning Materials: Strategies and Principles

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  1. What is this? • Does it produce music on its own? • What or who makes this musical notes ‘alive’?

  2. Just like musical notes that don’t make music, Learning resources (textbooks) also don’t teach students. They are just INSTRUMENTS that stimulate learning

  3. Students are different Here are five jumbled words to show how students are different from one another Learning: 3 years City Song lyrics Learning: 1 year Movies Small town nopcetecem otiamotinv urackrbondg

  4. Adapt? Adopt?

  5. Learning Materials? Adapt? Adopt?

  6. Available materials Learning Objectives Adopt? Adapt? • Supplementary • Motivation • Background • Confidence • Competence • Interest Adopt? Adapt?

  7. Learning Materials

  8. Principles of Adopting and ADAPTINGLearning Materials Futurize Contextualize Personalize Touch the heart Touch the mind

  9. Strategies imslif pying ediletng Rearrange the jumbled letters derorering adding fomdiy cerapling

  10. Strategies Simplifying Deleting Reordering Adding Modifying Replacing

  11. Examples?

  12. References • Cunningsworth, A. (1984). Evaluating and selecting EFL teaching materials. London: Heinemann Educational Books. • Islam, C., & Mares, C. (2003). Adapting classroom materials. In Tomlinson, B. (Ed.).Developing materials for language teaching. (PP. 86-107). London: Continuum • Tomlinson, B. (Ed.) 2003 . Developing materials for language teaching. (PP. 107-129). London: Continuum.

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