STETS style - STETS-vowels.pdf. Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Speaking. In my experience as a teacher trainer, I've found that beginning teachers often confuse oral practice with real communication -- what I'm calling real communication.
So you can have an active classroom with people speaking a lot, but that doesn't mean that they are actually communicating. They can be just practicing orally. And I think it's important to start off this module defining communication and looking at a checklist of defining features we'll be referring to throughout the module. The first place to start is really with the notion of control. The Socratic Method. The Socratic Method:Teaching by Asking Instead of by Tellingby Rick Garlikov The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school.
I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript. The class was conducted on a Friday afternoon beginning at 1:30, late in May, with about two weeks left in the school year. This time was purposely chosen as one of the most difficult times to entice and hold these children's concentration about a somewhat complex intellectual matter. News Literacy: How to Teach Students to Search Smart. Credit: Quickhoney The word simple can rarely be used when it comes to describing online searches for news and information. Type a noun and a refining adjective into a search engine, and you're presented with an indefinite number of links (hence, perhaps, the word Google). The information can seem equally useful at first glance but will inevitably vary wildly in accuracy, from a New York Times article to a deadpan spoof in the Onion to a biased political blog filled with misinformation.