2. One of the aims of English Together is to bring teachers together as part of a
Professional Learning Community, to support each other by creating a safe
space where teachers can reflect on their teaching practice, discuss common
problems, and seek solutions together.
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By the end of the session, teachers will be able to:
share their experience of working with students whose abilities are mixed
discuss challenges students have when listening in English
identify a range of techniques that teachers can use to differentiate listening tasks
discuss their experience of using these techniques
select one technique to integrate into their lessons
7. Star of Your life
Procedure
•On each point of the star write something that is important for
you, such as a date, name, number, likes/dislikes, etc. For
example, I usually write Mustafa (my husband’s name), 31 (my
age), 1+1 (I have a daughter and a son), Finland (my dream
holiday) and so on.
•Write these words down but don’t tell your friends why they’re
there. They have to ask you questions and try to guess the
meaning of what you’ve written.
•Discuss what each word or phrase repsesents something
important from your life.
“Fido” could / might be his dog’s name. It can’t be his wife’s
name.
The activity can be used to teach models as
‘ can, may ,might, must’
8. (Group Work) Short Discussion: Look at the visual to clarify the terminology of differentiation and discuss
about the pictures in your group and relate them with the topic.
DIFFERENTIATING
LISTENING TASKS
10. (Group Work) Brainstorming: Please get your pieces of cardboard and brainstorm
some of the challenges that your students face when listening in English and your
challenges while teaching listening in your classes. Please take notes on the
cardboards.
ork) Brainstorming: New groups are created and teachers are given pieces of cardboard. In
their groups, teachers brainstorm some of the challenges that their students face when
listening in English and take notes on the cardboards. (4 minutes)
Well done, brainstorming and identifying challenges is important and will prepare
participants for the next task. Give an example of challenge before.
12. Group Discussion and then a Class Discussion
Please read the article with your group and look at the suggestions
together. Discuss whether you tried these ideas with your students
before or not and how your students responded.
14. (Small Groups): Edpuzzle Example: Please follow a differentiated listening
activity from the Edpuzzle App. Discuss how to implement such an activity in your
classes. Please present your ideas.
https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/61324d0debbf96411ef180f1/watch (multiple
type of questions)
https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/61324f6a893aa14146711097/watch (open
ended questions)
15. Please look at the listening activity example from our
course books. Please differentiate this listening activitiy
using just one solution you like. In the end, share your
ideas with the whole class.
What kind of technique will you use to differentiate this listening
activity to make it achieveable for all of your students? For weak
students, strong ones, having different needs and interests and
learning profile
How will your students benefit from it?
16. Please complete the Immediate Reflection now.
Teachers are reminded to complete the Implementation
Reflection form before the next meeting.
You can find the forms https://veri.meb.gov.tr/Default.aspx
17. Thanks for your contributions.
The next PLC topic is Technology Integration. You will be sent a reminder on the Whats app
group about 1 week before the next meeting.
