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The document outlines various strategies for building a classroom community and promoting active learning through group activities, discussions, and vocabulary pre-teaching. It emphasizes the importance of engaging students in their learning process by drawing on their background knowledge and encouraging collaboration. Several specific activities and resources are suggested to facilitate these learning experiences.
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- 3. • Each groupwill get a stack of index cards. • Each group will try to build the tallest card house!
- 5. Before you couldadd a card to the house, you have to write something on it that every member of the team had in common. As more cards were added, the commonalities tended to stretch a bit, but it was all in the name of teamwork.
- 6. What could bethe biggest challenge in developing a classroom community and how to overcome it?
- 7. “Schools and classroomsare where children spend a significant amount of time each week, and teachers have an opportunity to help their students make the most of that time together by developing a classroom community each day. McKinney, 2017
- 9. • Sit ina group. • Create a list of words that you believe defines active learning. • You must use at least 15 different words to define active learning. • The most important words should appear larger than other words.
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- 11. Drawing on students’background knowledge and experiences, can be an effective way to bridge gaps and make the content more accessible. (Robertson, 2007)
- 12. • Kickstart studentengagement (ice breaker) • Activate Scheme and evoke curiosity • Encourage building of new connections • Visualize brainstorming feedback • Help students reach a consensus as a group • Ease into deep discussions for genuine responses • Summarize topics to develop understanding
- 13. Which activating priorknowledge strategy do you employ in your lessons?
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- 15. Intuition Gut reaction Emotion Analyze pasttrends Your knowledge Weak points Negative outcomes Optimistic viewpoint Benefits of the decision Process control Need of plan B Creative solutions to a problem
- 17. Group Work Pre-teaching Vocabulary A-Matchthe meaning with the words. B-Read the rules of the memory game.
- 20. Why is pre-teachingvocabulary important (specifically in a reading lesson)?
- 21. Line it upand fold it.
- 23. Which type ofquestions promotes deeper learning? Support your answer with examples.
- 24. Display Questions Factual Yes/ No Reasoning Explanation Genuine/Referential Questions Opinion Discussion Elaboration Evaluation
- 25. • Read thegiven article to find the key points that you would like to share with other group’s members. • Distribute the key points among your team members. • Once prepared, assemble in such a way that you have your opponents on each of your side. • Share your piece of information and listen to others.
- 27. What is thebest way to learn: by reading, discussion or teaching others? Support your answer with reasoning.
- 32. Roll the dicein pairs or in groups. Each number on the dice corresponds to a type of question: •Who •What •When •Where •Why How When you ask successful question or respond to them correctly, you will earn the dice points. Take turns to play and record the points. You can use the material for reference to confirm the answers.
- 33. Turn and Talk Whichskill or concept can be taught through this dice activity? Time: 2- 3 min
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- 36. 1. Compose astory for narration. 2. Take pictures or download for the cover page. 3. Install SoundCloud on your cell phone. 4. Create an account by linking to gmail or fb. 5. Record your story. 6. Press next and add cover picture and title. 7. Tap to post your recording.
- 39. Resources: 10 Online LearningActivities for Active Learners https://blog.weevur.io/10-online-learning-activities-for-active-learners-f56a144f1112 Active Learning Strategies https://teaching.berkeley.edu/active-learning-strategies http://www.queensu.ca/teachingandlearning/modules/students/22_active_learning_strategies.html ACTIVE LEARNING VS PASSIVE LEARNING https://www.classcraft.com/blog/features/active-learning-vs-passive-learning/ https://titan-learning.com/active-learning-vs-passive-learning/ McKinney, A. (2017).The Importance of Building Community in the Classroom https://www.teachervision.com/blog/morning-announcements/importance-building-community-classroom Rivera, J (2010) Authentic Oral Interaction in the EFL Class: What It Means, What It Does not https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/13833/36806 Robertso, K. (2007). Connect Students' Background Knowledge to Content in the ELL Classroom http://www.readingrockets.org/article/connect-students-background-knowledge-content-ell-classroom
- 40. For grouping https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/genia-connell/15-quick-and-creative-ways-group-and- partner-students/ https://www.create-abilities.com/blogs/create-abilities-blog/6-easy-ways-to-group-your-students Wordle Gardner, T.(2018) Ten Active Learning Strategies Using Word Clouds https://community.macmillan.com/community/the-english-community/bedford- bits/blog/2018/05/08/ten-active-learning-strategies-using-word-clouds