English Teaching Techniques, professor Sheryl Feinstein, "Keeping EFL Fit" Teacher Training, organized by Access Microsholarship Program Moldova, December 27, 2014

1. Teaching Strategies

2. Lesson Planning
1. Objectives: What do you want students to know and be able to do?
2. Formative Assessment (Occurs before teaching and during teaching a
unit, Informs teachers of students’ background knowledge, Helps plan
lessons, Not graded)
3. Activities: Introduce the Lesson (Taps into Background Knowledge,
Motivates Students) and Activities for Learning
4. Summative Assessment: Graded, Checks
for student understanding, Occurs after teaching.

3. Forms of Formative Assessment
• Quiz
• Observing
• Class Discussion
• Graphic Organizer
• Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
• Muddy Waters

4. Gain Student’s Attention
1st Novelty Gain Student’s Attention
2nd Connect Emotions
3rd Make it meaningful
Give time to Process the Information

5. Processing Time
• Journaling
• Class Discussions
• Worksheets
• Relaxing
• Projects
• Brainstorming
• Many more

7. Strategy (multiple approach)
•Linguistic: Read, Listen, Speak, and Write
•Visual: Pictures, Graphs, Maps, Sculpture, Paint
•Physically Move: Move, Dance, Touch, Build
•Music: Poetry, Rhythm & Rhyme, Sing, Dance
•Math & Science: graphs, numbers, cause & effect

8. Summative Assessment
•Test
•Essay
•Portfolio
•Performance Assessment
(Using Learning in the Real World)

9. Performance Assessment Criteria
1. Connects and Relates to Real Life
2. Taps into Higher Level Thinking Skills (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
3. Contains some form of Collaboration
4. Takes place over a period of time

10. Performance Assesment
1. Mean and Range
2. Sample: 5, 7 3, 9 Sample: 4, 2, 6
3. Car activity:
A. Form groups of 2
b. Form a hypothesis in your group about traffic on Doyna and ___ Str
c. One individual in each group is the timer and recorder, the other counts cars
d. Go outside and 2 groups will count all the cars on Doyna Str, the other two
groups will count the cars on ____ Str
d. You will time traffic for 2 minutes, write down the number of cars, busses,
maxi-taxis that went by. Repeat this 2 more times for a total of 3 sets of scores.

11. Activity Continued
1. Find the Mean
2. Find the Range
3. Graph the Mean
4. Was your hypothesis correct?
5. Do you have a recommendation for the city?

12. Performance Assessments
• Letter
• Role Play
• Presentation
• Describe a sporting event
• Debate / Panel Discussion
• Game (create or play)
• TV Show
• Song
• Critique a Performance or Work of Art
• Design an Advertisement
• Write a Math Story Problem
• Book Review
• Give Directions
• Design a Survey
• Demonstrate
• Interview
• Journal
• Poetry
• Puppet Show
• Skit
• Solve a Mystery
• Create Explanations for a Museum Exhibit
• Critique a chart or graph
• Justify an opinion
• Explain an Invention
• Write an Obiturary
• Road Map
• Create a Scavenger Hunt

13. Possible Activities
• Create a menu, brochure, want ad for a job
• Role play eating at a restaurant, shopping, visiting a home
• Solve a mystery presented by the teacher
• Explain how to do something, such as cook, fix a broken
object, sew
• Create a survey for the class on a topic of choice, then
analyze and evaluate the answers
• Give a tour of your home, city, or neighborhood, explain the
importance of the different sites