background preloader

TEACHING IDEAS WEBPAGES

Facebook Twitter

VERB TENSE REVIEW. One of the ways to make learning more effective is to transit from mechanical practice to more engagement with the target grammar or vocabulary focusing on the use of forms for students’ own production of speech or writing. My today’s post describes an adaptation of the extended version of Noughts and Crosses (or Tic-Tac-Toe) that offers a higher level of challenge for students turning a tense review into a personally relevant and meaningful activity. For the game, students will need coordinate grids with each square defined by the horizontal axis (Simple, Continuous, Perfect and Perfect Continuous) and the vertical axis (Present, Past and Future). a 3×4 grid – for tenses in active voice, Grid 1. or a 6×4 grid for tenses in active and passive voice.

Grid 2. How to play the game: 1. 2. For Grid 1 The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a row wins the game. For Grid 2 The player who succeeds in placing four of their marks in a row wins the game. 2. Before the game*: Happy teaching! Six Engaging End-of-Year Projects. I don't know about your students, but so many of mine, coupled with Senioritis, were done after state testing. (The well had run dry, no blood from a turnip -- all those sayings applied!) With just a few precious weeks left in the school year, what do you do to keep the kids energized and on board with learning? One thing I knew for sure when it came to my high school students: They had to feel as if they weren't actually doing work.

(Yep, I had to trick them.) And whatever you do plan, especially for secondary students, three elements are essential: choices, creativity, and constructing. Consider these projects (and I've included the cognitive demands): 1. Give students an opportunity to teach the rest of the class something, like origami, a new app, or a martial arts self-defense move (design, construct, apply). 2. 3. Have students take ownership of a planet, song, decade, career, author, country, scientist, medical breakthrough. . . 4. 5. 6. TEFL Prague and Abroad: ESL Warmers and Games Using Improv - Mid to High Levels. Using Improvisational games/activities/exercises can be a lot of fun in the classroom and are great linguistic training opportunities. Most activities in language classes deal with students presenting some kind of pre thought out discourse. The problem with this is that speaking in real life is not as planned. Using Improv will help your students to think on their feet and discuss a variety of situations immediately without translating ideas or writing things down.

Here are 6 activities that I created (although I'm sure others have thought of them) that I use in my classes. Tip: Improv is hard stuff and should only be used with students who have a solid speaking base. Support my efforts - Follow the blog by clicking the button or enter your email here------->>>>>1. Prepare a seat in the center of the class where one student sits. Tip: This is hard stuff for even native speakers. 2. Tip: This can be used with lower levels but probably nothing lower than a solid pre-intermediate level.

Warmers an icebreakers

Warmers and icebreakers. Let’s Laugh! 10+ Resources & Activities for Inspiring Laughter in Your Class. “Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity…When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.” ~Gretchen Rubin April Fool’s day is around the corner and it’s a great time to get your students laughing while learning. Laughter is healthy and gets us to relieve the stress of language learning. Many of these lessons deal with studying the language in jokes. Jokes are cultural. Joke Mingle You can have students bring in jokes for any topic, grammar, or vocabulary you teach. Students memorize at least one of the jokes.Put students in pairs facing each other.Give them 30 seconds to a minute to tell their jokes.Blow the whistle. My Favorite Joke Have students present their favorite jokes to the class then discuss where they first heard the joke, who told them the joke, and why they think the joke is so funny.

Corniest Joke Contest One of the ways to get your students laughing is to have them tell corny jokes. Jokes Across Cultures. Engaging Students with Humor. Two Kinds Of People – A Getting To Know You Activity | The Teacher James. As it’s the start of a new school year, I thought it was time to try out a new ‘getting to know you’ first lesson activity. I came across the website 2 Kinds Of People which simply and beautifully portrays how easily the people can be separated into different groups. I thought it was a fun way to help the students learn something about each other, while giving them the chance to learn some very useful contemporary vocabulary and functional language. Here’s the activity plan… 1. Before class, print out (and laminate, if you can) the pairs of pictures. Cut them up into individual pictures and shuffle them. 2. 3. 4.

“I prefer … because …” “I’m the kind of person who…” “Which one are you?” And some adjectives to describe how they are as a person: Messy (Dis)organised Tidy Obsessive Old fashioned Modern (In)efficient (Un)fashionable Stylish (Un)comfortable Cautious Careful Carefree Sleepy 5. 6. 7. Images are taken from 2 Kinds Of People. Like this: Like Loading... La evaluación en el modelo Flipped Learning + ABP. El modelo Flipped Learning propone desplazar la instrucción directa del profesor por la instrucción del alumnado en casa a través de lecturas, videos, etc.

De esta manera, el tiempo de clase aumenta y las sesiones con el alumnado se convierten en «talleres experimentales» en los que poner en práctica todos los conocimientos adquiridos de manera autónoma en casa. Por otro lado, el tiempo de clase debe llenarse de contenido puesto que las «explicaciones tradicionales» desaparecen. En ese tiempo de clase pueden utilizarse distintas metodologías y dinámicas como el trabajo por proyectos, el descubrimiento por retos, los grupos interactivos, el trabajo cooperativo, etc., siempre con la filosofía de aplicación práctica y con el fin de promover un aprendizaje diferenciado y personalizado en el alumnado donde se produzca una mayor interacción y participación entre los estudiantes y con el docente que ahora ejerce de guía.

Pero, ¿cómo se evalúa todo este trabajo? Imagen: ItsMyLive. Personalised speaking | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC. What our students bring to the learning environment is our richest resource. But if the lives they lead are to be at the centre of the courses we teach, are we guaranteed that students will talk freely and be interested in what their fellow classmates tell them? The answer is no. So what are some of the main challenges we face when doing personalised speaking activities and how can these challenges be met? Two main challenges Meeting these challenges Teacher modelling Visualisation Setting peer listening tasks Sharing classmates’ real-life experiences Example activity Conclusion Two main challengesFirstly, students might lack confidence in their ability to tell an anecdote, describe their feelings or confidently give their views in their mother tongue, let alone in English: 'I don’t know what to say or how to say it.' Secondly, classes are made up of students who are thrown together by circumstance.

Example activityShow me your shoesLevel: Elementary to Advanced / All ages Visualisation. The Language Classroom - What methods help us learn the most? Ntl. Training Laboratories Education Vocabulary: U.S. Schools History of Education Daniel Schugurensky History of Education Blackwell Museum History of Education Robert N. Barger Educational Psychology course, tests / John H. FIRST DAY of SCHOOL ^ Classroom Management Discipline The First Days of School Interview with Harry Wong Education World Interview with Harry & Rosemary Wong teachers.net " The First Five Minutes are Critical" ...

First Day Activities Activities KinderKorner Activities Shad Schroeder Activities ABC Teach Activities Education World Beginning Teachers First Year of Teaching Amy DePaul Beginning Teachers Darci Harland Beginning Language Teachers First Day of Language Class FL Teach / Lee Risley Teaching Languages Craig Nickisch Floating Teachers Tips Education World Substitute Teachers How to Prepare for a Substitute Beth Lewis "The First Five Minutes are Critical" Harry & Rosemary Wong Study Skills Learning Pyramid. How to get your students to speak 100% English. By David Martin This paper is written primarily for teachers who have unmotivated to semi-motivated students and want (more than anything) for their students to communicate in English from the beginning of the lesson right through to the end.

This would typically include most university, junior college and high school teachers in Japan. Your first reaction may be that this is an unrealistic goal, one that you may have presented to your students before, but a goal they have always failed to achieve. You may be in a classroom situation where the students speak 20-50% Japanese. Or your students may not speak much at all. Is a 100% English goal unrealistic? First let me explain that by setting a 100% goal this does not imply that Japanese will be outlawed in the classroom. Do the author's students speak mostly English? What follows are some techniques that I have found to be successful in getting my students to speak mostly in English. Establish your 100% goal from Day 1. My Promises 2. 3. 4. Encouraging students to speak. By Paul Charles This article by Paul Charles aims to narrow the communicative approach into some practical steps towards successful speaking lessons.

Question: What would you suggest as a method of encouraging a student to speak, for example, when they are rather shy even in their native language? I remember GiddyGad once said that I can't make a student use the expressions and vocabulary they do not even use in their native language, and I agree. But what about when they usually answer: "I don't know," "Hmm? " or only "Yes, I do," "No, I won't" etc... Taken from the onestopenglish Forum. Encouraging students to speak | The three Ts | Finding good topics | Ideas for speaking tasks | Providing the tools | Final thoughts | References Anchor Point:1Encouraging students to speak Before I go on, I'd like to ask for a moment's reflection.

Anchor Point:2The three Ts Anchor Point:3Finding good topics Every class, of course, is different. Here are some ideas for setting up speaking tasks: Sandy Millin: The big reveal. Read Sandy's latest blog post on the use of ELTPics images. This photo would be great for practicing the language of speculation. It lends itself well to being revealed gradually, with students speculating based on what they can see in each version of the image, and providing reasons for their ideas.

You can give them more or less support depending on their level and their confidence. For example, you could supply sentence frames like: I think it’s…, but I’m not sure.It must/might/could be…because…It can’t/might not be…as/since… You could also give them the question words Where? Where do you think it is? In my experience, students enjoy the mystery element of this activity when you’ve got a well-chosen image.

There are hundreds of images which are particularly suitable for this activity in the ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ set on ELTpics. ‘Every picture tells a story’ link: Edutopia. I remember how, as a new teacher, I would attend a professional development and feel inundated with new strategies. (I wanted to get back to the classroom and try them all!) After the magic of that day wore off, I reflected on the many strategies and would often think, "Lots of great stuff, but I'm not sure it's worth the time it would take to implement it all.

" We teachers are always looking to innovate, so, yes, it's essential that we try new things to add to our pedagogical bag of tricks. But it's important to focus on purpose and intentionality -- and not on quantity. So what really matters more than "always trying something new" is the reason behind why we do what we do. What Research Says This leads me to educational researcher John Hattie, who wrote Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning. Hattie has spent more than 15 years researching the influences on achievement of K-12 children. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Collaborating with Colleagues.

First days class

Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking. Suggestions from educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School on how to help develop and assess critical-thinking skills in your students. Ideally, teaching kids how to think critically becomes an integral part of your approach, no matter what subject you teach. But if you're just getting started, here are some concrete ways you can begin leveraging your students' critical-thinking skills in the classroom and beyond. 1. Questions, questions, questions. Questioning is at the heart of critical thinking, so you want to create an environment where intellectual curiosity is fostered and questions are encouraged. In the beginning stages, you may be doing most of the asking to show your students the types of questions that will lead to higher-level thinking and understanding. 2.

Pose a provocative question to build an argument around and help your students break it down. 3. 4. 5. Lively discussions usually involve some degree of differing perspectives. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11 Multimedia Lessons to Inspire Change - Official Teach Blog. This is the first in a series of articles to take you through some multi-media tools and ideas that can help your students to become confident learners by becoming confident thinkers. So many things can happen in a classroom in any one minute – have you ever thought of freeze-framing one instant in a classroom and going back to reflect upon how many teachable moments are present within this moment? How can we allow students to create their own moments in the classroom? Perhaps by encouraging our students to be responsible for their own choices, and by believing in them, we can create the impetus for growth, challenge and change.

We can encourage students to take the initiative by ”allowing” them to be themselves. To quote Jeffrey Doonan from my teacher-sourced inquiries on facebook: Just let the moments happen, why count or even begin to think about them. I believe that our students are also undergoing changes and be-coming themselves. The Butterfly Effect: Phillips Brooks Why technology? 35 ways to introduce your lesson topic | elt planning. Are you fed up with using the same old methods to introduce your lesson topic? Look no further! Here are 35 ways to kick off your lesson. How many have you tried? Using an anecdote Example topic: idioms You know I play football, right? “can I help you?” And I’m “yeah. She says “They’re £500” And I said “£500???? Here’s some example flashcards I made for teaching idioms. Cuisenaire Rods creation Example topic: Tourist attractions Give each pair of students a bunch of Cuisenaire rods.

“Work in pairs. Students then look at each model and guess the attraction. Cuisenaire Rods model Create your own model using rods. (Here is my example of the UK political parties and their share of the vote, for a recent lesson on politics) Musical “Guess the topic” Example topic: family and relationships Think of 3 or 4 songs which in some way reference the theme/topic of your lesson Avril Lavigne – Skater Boi (“he was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?”)

The Hollies – He ain’t heavy (he’s my brother) How to Promote Creativity in your Classroom? 5 Creative Ways To Use Skype In The Classroom. 7 Ways to Boost Energy & Connect with Students from Ken Wilson - Teach ESL Online. Edutopia | K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work. Manage Class Seating and Behaviour with Class Charts. 10 tips for creating a class agreement. Working walls - not just wallpaper! Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads. 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom. Un truco para reducir un 75% el tiempo de corrección en casa. 10 características de una clase que ´funciona´ 3 Maneras (nuevas y simples) de mejorar tu docencia.

Uso educativo de los cómics y herramientas para elaborarlos. Teaching ideas | ELT Ideas. What Makes a Parent Love a Teacher. Lessons on Getting Adolescents Excited About Reading. Webenglish. Tim's Free English Lesson Plans | Use them, share them, comment on them, and share my link in return. BusyTeacher.org Mobile. Billy Bear's FREE Printable Personalized Award Certificates. Year-End Awards for the Classroom | Suzanne Lilly the TeacherWriter. BusyTeacher.org Mobile. Module action points – a warmer | ELT stories. ELT PLANNING. Lesson idea: quick conditionals review | elt planning. 100 energizers. Lesson Ideas with Masking Tape. BusyTeacher.org Mobile. BusyTeacher.org Mobile. TEACHING TIPS. The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators. CristinaSkyBox: Soundbites for the Classroom. Resources -  Drama in the ESL Classroom.

Speaking aids. How to Make a Dream Collage. A Beautiful Beginning: 10+ Tips & Resources for Creating a Safe Classroom Environment. Tiny TEFL Teacher Home. Classroom Exercise: Round Robin. 14 Brilliant Uses for Mind Maps – Engage Your Whole Brain. Teach 9 irregular verbs in one lesson.

Workshop Review : Sophie Handy – Top Tips For Teens | Fab English ideas. The Student whisperer | Fab English ideas. Sweets & Jokers – how to blatantly bribe your students. | Fab English ideas. Using #myipad in the classroom. | Fab English ideas. Revising vocabulary -a speaking activity | Fab English ideas. How to learn Vocabulary – 7 simple ideas | Fab English ideas. Recycling vocabulary | Fab English ideas. ELLA » Teachers’ Corner. Cooking and TV chefs. 5 Creative New Ways to Teach English as a Second Language. Activating Language | Fab English ideas. Ways of encouraging Students to communicate in English in the EFL classroom | Fab English ideas. Using video in the classroom – webinar by Stephanie Dimond-Bayir | Fab English ideas.

TEACHING TEENAGERS

Seven Things I Learned in Seven Years. Using a Ramdon Picker to Teach English | Blog de Cristina. #7 Share a Lesson Idea. | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC. Drawing dictation | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC. The Teacher’s Survival Kit for Lesson Planning! Tips & 1000s of Free Lesson Plans. 20 Ways to Bring Your Textbook to Life! Spice Up That Lecture! 20+ Ideas & Resources. Lesson Plan Resources ELT. The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators. Resources - EFL 2.0 Teacher Talk.

Teacher survival kit

LAQBOOKS. Survival Tips for Teachers. Bored of your Board? | Fab English ideas. Differentiation – What to do with fast finishers and slow starters: My harrogate workshop | Fab English ideas. Board with your Board 2 – the babyboard | Fab English ideas. CONDITIONALS. ::: Flashcard Maker - Flashcards in a flash! :::

English on the Rocks - aprender inglés. Ressources pour le Collège - ESL Resources - Label européen des langues. Dave's ESL Cafe.