How to survive teaching skills for life to children
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The slide presentation for my session at IATEFL, Gdansk, 2019. I promote teaching life skills in our language lessons, that will help students not only now, but in the future; not only in our classroom, but others and outside class too.
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- 1. How to survive teaching life skills to children James Savery, British Council 28th International IATEFL Poland Conference Gdańsk, September 2019 James.Savery@britishcouncil.pl
- 3. Decide what to tell your parents when they ask ‘How was your first day?’ and how much to lie. Make new friends Find out who wants to help and who to avoid Avoid being bullied Find the lunch canteen Work out the queuing system get and understand your timetable find where the toilets are Find the classrooms you need Get your books Find the school tuckshop Remember names Find your form teacher and classroom Understand what’s going on in the lessons Remember to do the homework Learn how to address people Find noticeboards: find which notices are important and read and understand them
- 5. https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/04/05/cam bridge-framework-life-competencies/ Life skills • Emotional Development • Critical Thinking • Communication • Creative Thinking • Collaboration • Learning to Learn • Social Responsibilities
- 7. Streets paved with gold
- 9. Emotional Development • The teacher • The students • Lesson content • The classroom
- 14. Critical Thinking • Curiosity ‘mats, flashcards and food’ • Thinking tasks • Stories
- 17. A London Mansion
- 18. Communication • Providing language • Providing opportunities • Purpose • Storytelling and drama
- 20. A London Mansion
- 21. Creative Thinking • Imagination • Surprise! • Problem solving
- 23. Three ways the cat can help! • • •
- 24. Collaboration • Model and Guide • age appropriate • Games
- 29. The rich man’s ship
- 30. Learning to learn • Familiarity – instructions and routines • Awareness – of own learning • Techniques
- 32. FRONT BACK
- 34. Social Responsibilities • The teacher • Responsibility • Topics https://www.globalgoals.org/
- 36. Summary • Signpost lessons (critical and creative thinking, learning to learn) • Manage the learning environment (Emotional development) • Involve children in the running of the class (social responsibilities) • Promote thinking tasks: (critical thinking) • Do stories with children – (creative thinking, critical thinking, emotional development) • art and craft and project work include collaboration, display work. (collaboration) • Practice speaking in class with real communication and personalisation (communication) • Children reflect on what they’ve done (learning to learn)