Third meeting slides

2.  Plan in detail
 Script
 Possible problems
 Rationale
 Context
 Assumptions
 Objectives/Aims

3.  Openings
 Stages/Sequence
 Surprise element
 Guessing
 Tasks
 Closures
 Extra activities

4.  Clear/Precise. Chop them
 How are you going to check them?
 What are you going to tell your students?
(“Did you understand? Is it clear?”are
not good options)
 Modeling
 Be on your students’ shoes

5.  Timing
 Pace
 The use of the board
 The use of technology
 Individual work/pairs/groups
 Sitting arrangement

6.  Reading/Listening/Writing/Speaking
 Transitions
 Flow
 Connection among activities
 Homework

8.  Engaging activities
 What is going to be your students’
production?
 Non-traditional activities
 Communicative activities
 Do your sts have the tools to do the tasks
you ask them to do?

9.  Praise students
 Students must feel confident. They need
to know what to do and they should be
able to do it well
 Use scaffolding strategies
 Be creative!
 Don’t use Spanish unless it’s extremely
necessary
 Take risks

10.  Check language
 Pronunciation
 Don’t speak too much
 Vary the activities
 Don’t take anything for granted

11.  What characterisics should they have?

12.  Get in groups
 Think of an activity to do with your
students (information-gap activity,
dictogloss, etc.)
 Plan it
 Micro-teach