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Feedback on Class 2 Teaching Demos. Spring 2012 Teaching English. Things That Were Good. Good Stuff. Pair Work http://suite101.com/article/pair-work-in-the-language-classroom-a67110 Using Pictures to Elicit Ideas/Words
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Feedback on Class 2 Teaching Demos Spring 2012Teaching English
Good Stuff • Pair Work • http://suite101.com/article/pair-work-in-the-language-classroom-a67110 • Using Pictures to Elicit Ideas/Words • http://www.slideshare.net/josezubia/using-pictures-to-elicit-communication • Explanations • http://www.pte.hu/uprt/4.3%20Kalebic.pdf • Elicit • http://www.eslfocus.com/articles/techniques_for_eliciting_-445.html • Challenge • http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/ilwebb/Research/scaffolding.htm • Elicit • http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/eliciting • Gap Fill • http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/gap-fill-generator • Introduction and Content • http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kilickaya-AutenticMaterial.html • Material Diversity • http://linguistlist.org/sp/GetWRListings.cfm?WRAbbrev=LangLearnESL • Nominates Students to Talk • http://edition.tefl.net/articles/teacher-technique/checking-answers/ • Encouraging • http://www.classroomsthatwork.com/pdf/THE%20ENCOURAGING%20TEACHER.pdf • Enthusiastic • http://teachingchallenges.blogspot.com/2008/12/enthusiastic-teachers.html • http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Teacher_Enthusiasm_Research
Things That Need Improvement • Transitions • Closing • Transitions • Patience – wait for students to answer • Pre-teaching • Transitions • Elicit Answers • More Student Interaction/Practice • Transitions • Closing Review • Closing – “Do you understand?” • Closing Review
Transitions • http://www.teachingwithpurpose.com/Classroom_Transitions_Susan_Douglas.pdf • http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/16 • http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/kits/wwbtk4.pdf • http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/organization/lessons.html • http://viewsfromthewhiteboard.edublogs.org/
Transitions • How can you help students move from idea to idea? Exercise to exercise? Lesson to lesson? Class to class? • Even adult learners need prompts and closure.
Closing a lesson • http://busyteacher.org/3370-7-best-ways-to-end-a-lesson.html • http://edc448uri.wikispaces.com/file/view/40_ways_to_leave_a_lesson.pdf
Patience • http://ezinearticles.com/?Teaching-English-as-a-Foreign-Language---Common-EFL-Classroom-Problems-and-What-to-Do-About-Them&id=1128002 • http://suite101.com/article/language-immersion-strategy-for-tefl-instructors-a176122 • http://www.ehow.com/how_6395161_handle-difficult-esl-classes.html
Pre-Teaching • http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ketae.pd.diff.difpret/ • http://suite101.com/article/improving-esl-reading-skills-a13325
Practice Time • http://www.beta-iatefl.org/1211/blog-publications/what-not-to-do-in-the-efl-classroom/ • http://teachesl.pbworks.com/f/ila03_chuk.pdf • http://wlkc.nbu.edu.cn/jpkc_nbu/daxueyingyu/download/013.pdf