Creative Teaching Workshop

Creative Teaching Workshop

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Creative Teaching

Our goal as English teachers…

To make language learning more motivating and successful

Teaching

=Learning?

People learn best when ...

1. personally meaningful2. engaged & active3. purpose is clear

Professor Curtis KellyELT Specialist

Teaching Creatively Means Engaging ALL Learners…

What kind of learner are you?

A. Visual learnersThese students learn best by seeing. They may think in pictures and learn best from visual displays including: diagrams, illustrated text books, overhead transparencies, videos, flipcharts and hand-outs.

B. Auditory learnersThey learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say. Written information may have little meaning until it is heard. These learners often benefit from reading text aloud and using a tape recorder.

C. Kinesthetic LearnersThey learn through moving, doing and touching. They may find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become distracted by their need for activity and exploration.

Pictures

Brainstorming

Flash cards

Discussions

Problem solving

Reading aloud

Dictation

Posters

Mind maps

Projects

Roleplays

GamesSongs

Surveys

Miming

Competitions

TPR

Variety in Learning Activities

Creative Activities

Pictionary

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If you spend most of your time studying grammar, your English will not improve very much. You will see most improvement if you learn more words and expressions.

Without grammar, you can say or write very little. Without vocabulary, we can say or write nothing.

Professor Hugh DellarEnglish Teaching Expert

Why focus on vocabulary?

Drawing Dictation

Why do a drawing dictation?

-Listening practice

-Focus on meaning

-Interesting

Listening

What Makes Listening to a Recording Difficult?

No context/background

Can’t see the speakers

Cannot control the speed

Can’t ask questions

Unknown vocabulary

Know written form, but not spoken

What’s the weather like? What are they talking about?

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Benefits of Dialogs

-A model

-More use of target language

-Guided practice

-More student talk time!

Potential Problem with Dialogs:

-Just reading practice?

-Students really listening to each other?

-Real communication?

Read and Look upPage 11

Memory Match

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Listening Practice

1 2 3 4

6 7 8 9 10

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Memory Match

Why do a Memory Match?

• Interesting• Easy to play• Gives students opportunity for repeated

listening• Demonstrates comprehension• Turns written activity into oral skill practice

Beehive

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Why Do a Beehive?

-Fast-paced and easy

-Interesting

-Good for multi-level classes

-Gets all students involved

Why use video?

1. Motivation/Interest

2. Language Models

3. Window on Culture

4. Stimulus/Input

5. Moving Picture Book

General Guidelines for Video

1. Test, test, test! (Equipment)

2. Recycle (Watch at least 2 times)

3. Modeling

4. Simultaneous Activities to a Minimum

Activity:Predict What You’ll See

Talk with a partner:What is ‘Archaeology’?What are some things you think you’ll see in the video?

We’re going to watch a video about archaeologists

Activity: Split Viewing – SOUND OFF

One student watches and describes to other student, who isn’t watching.

Let’s try it!

Post-Viewing Activities

The ever-increasing dialog

Round 1: Students talk in pairs for 1 minute about the video. NO STOPPING

Round 2: New partner – 2 minutes

Round 3: New partner – 3 minutes

What “real, authentic” English do you hear in the video?

Uh-huh Yeah

Ah, Yep,

Mm, Hey,

Increasing Awareness of Language Use

Have students notice and then discuss/explain

discourse (e.g., how ideas are connected)speech acts (e.g., how to give a

compliment)linguistic expressions (e.g., how do they

say the time?)

Video as a Pre-writing Activity

Writing exercises • A critic• Essay about a similar topic• Compare and contrast paragraphs • Re-write the ending• A letter giving advice to a foreigner who is

going to visit the place in the video

Thanks for listening!

Justin Kaley

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