This document discusses key concepts in English language teaching such as best practice, motivation, and learner-centeredness. It defines best practice as techniques that reliably lead to desired results based on experience and research. Motivation is described as a key factor for language learning success. The document also discusses ways to make classrooms more learner-centered, such as ensuring students know each other and using personalized tasks. Speaking activities that focus on accuracy or fluency are discussed, as well as tips for successful anecdote activities to improve students' speaking skills through extended discourse.
Situational qualities exhibited by exceptional presentersPatrick Lowenthal
Bad presentations are commonplace, but rather than focus on what is wrong with bad presentations, the authors looked at what makes an exceptional presentation. They referenced recent work on the aesthetic qualities of learning experiences by Patrick Parrish and others, which describe aesthetic learning experiences as those that involve learners in the right level of challenge and heightened engagement. Aesthetic learning experiences are memorable and often transformative, leaving learners with enhanced confidence and capabilities—the very definition of exceptional. By attending to the situational qualities of aesthetic learning experiences, presenters are more likely to create exceptional presentations that establish relevance and engagement—and, therefore, have a better chance at achieving specific learning objectives and outcomes. To do this, the authors identified the most viewed presentations on the TED website as the sample for their study. They created a matrix based on the situational qualities of aesthetic learning experiences and analyzed the top six “most viewed” presentations (as of July 15, 2011).
The presentation will cover the contents for Training for Trainer. I start my session with introduction and ice breaking. The presentation is brief and it will not help you to be a good trainer. It will give you tips on how to be a good trainer. If you want to be a good trainer, all you need to do is keep practicing, your creativity, natural abilities, perception, attitude and how good are you to connect with the audiences.
Non-judgmental Communication for Researcher DevelopmentMariam Attia
This introduction was delivered at the beginning of a workshop at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, Manchester, Sept 9th 2014.
Situational qualities exhibited by exceptional presentersPatrick Lowenthal
Bad presentations are commonplace, but rather than focus on what is wrong with bad presentations, the authors looked at what makes an exceptional presentation. They referenced recent work on the aesthetic qualities of learning experiences by Patrick Parrish and others, which describe aesthetic learning experiences as those that involve learners in the right level of challenge and heightened engagement. Aesthetic learning experiences are memorable and often transformative, leaving learners with enhanced confidence and capabilities—the very definition of exceptional. By attending to the situational qualities of aesthetic learning experiences, presenters are more likely to create exceptional presentations that establish relevance and engagement—and, therefore, have a better chance at achieving specific learning objectives and outcomes. To do this, the authors identified the most viewed presentations on the TED website as the sample for their study. They created a matrix based on the situational qualities of aesthetic learning experiences and analyzed the top six “most viewed” presentations (as of July 15, 2011).
The presentation will cover the contents for Training for Trainer. I start my session with introduction and ice breaking. The presentation is brief and it will not help you to be a good trainer. It will give you tips on how to be a good trainer. If you want to be a good trainer, all you need to do is keep practicing, your creativity, natural abilities, perception, attitude and how good are you to connect with the audiences.
Non-judgmental Communication for Researcher DevelopmentMariam Attia
This introduction was delivered at the beginning of a workshop at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, Manchester, Sept 9th 2014.
Teaching Adults: What trainers need to knowDanielleHazen1
Teaching adults isn’t
like teaching children. What we learn in childhood forms the foundation of what we learn as
adults. Our life experiences can add to that, thus creating a substantial
reservoir of information.
Developing insight into how adults learn helps trainers become more
successful.
NCV 2 Human & Social Development Hands-On Support Slide Show - Module 1Future Managers
This slide show accompanies our learner guide - NCV 2 Human & Social Development Hands-On Training by Tricia Sterling, published by Future Managers Pty Ltd. For more information visit our website www.futuremanagers.net
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
3. Best Practice How would you define best practice? What does it involve? When / where have you come across the term?
4. Best Practice “A best practice is a technique or methodology that, through experience and research, has proven to reliably lead to a desired result. The term is used frequently in the fields of health care, government administration, the education system, project management…” www.searchvb.com
5. Best Practice in ELT “The concept of Best Practice allows: essential standards (for example, in relation to ‘quality’ of teaching staff and resources) and (occasionally) Key benchmarks (for example, minimum test scores and skills acquisition requirements) to be set.” Alison Spice
6. Best Practice What factors might prevent the adoption of ‘best practices’?
7. Best Practice “According to the American Productivity & Quality Center, the three main barriers to adoption of a best practice are a lack of knowledge about current best practices, a lack of motivation to make changes involved in their adoption, and a lack of knowledge and skills required to do so.” www.searchvb.com
8. What works in practice? In groups make a list of 5 teaching techniques or activity types that you feel are reliably effective in your classrooms.
10. Motivation “Motivation is what drives learners to achieve a goal, and is a key factor determining success or failure in language learning.” An A – Z of ELT
11. Motivation What are the key factors that contribute to your learners’ motivation?
13. Definition of Blended Learning “Blended learning refers to a language course which combines a face to face classroom component with an appropriate use of technology”. Sharma & Barrett 2007
29. Group dynamics What practical things do you do to foster positive group dynamics in with your learners?
30. Ways that a teacher can promote a positive group dynamic include: Ensuring all class members know each other’s names Using ‘ice-breaking’ activities to encourage interaction, laughter, and relaxation Personalizing tasks, i.e.. Setting tasks that involve sharing of personal experiences and opinions An A – Z of ELT
31. Learner-centeredness “Learner-centred instruction is true to the spirit of progressive education, including the movement towards providing learners with greater autonomy… Learner-centredness also describes ways of organizing classroom interaction so that the focus is directed away from the teacher, and onto the learners who perform tasks in pairs or small groups.” An A – Z of ELT
33. Personaliation “When you personalize language you use it to talk about knowledge, experience and feelings… The influence of humanistic approaches has given a fresh impetus to personalization, both in terms of providing a more coherent rationale and suggesting a broader range of activity types.” An A – Z of ELT
34. Personalization “For a start (it is argued), personalization creates better classroom dynamics…. And the mental and emotional effort that is involved in finding personal associations is likely to make that item more memorable… Finally, lessons are likely to be more interesting, and hence more motivating, if at least some of the content concerns the people in the room, rather than the characters in the coursebooks.” An A – Z of ELT
35. Personalization In what ways do you personalize language learning with your students? What is their reaction to this?
37. Speaking “Speaking is generally thought to be the most important of the four skills… One of the main difficulties, of course, is that speaking normally takes place spontaneously and in real time, which means that planning and production overlap. If too much attention is paid to planning production suffers, and the effect is a loss of fluency.
38. Speaking “On the other hand, if the speaker’s attention is directed solely on production, it is likely that accuracy will suffer, which could prejudice intelligibility. In order to free up attention, therefore, the speaker need to have achieved a degree of automaticity in both planning and production.” An A – Z of ELT
39. Speaking Which of the speaking activities that you use regularly focus on accuracy? Which focus on fluency?
40. Fluency “Research into listeners’ perceptions of fluency suggests fluency is primarily the ability to produce and maintain speech in real time. To do this, fluent speakers are capable of: Appropriate pausing… Long turns An A – Z of ELT
41. Fluency “All of the above factors depend on the speaker having a well-developed grammar, an extensive vocabulary, and, crucially, a store of memorized chunks. Being able to draw on this store of chunks means not having to depend on grammar to construct each utterance from scratch.” An A – Z of ELT
42. Fluency What kind of speaking activities tend to get your students speaking freely? Can you think of any speaking activities that can help learners build up a ‘store of chucks’ of language that they can draw on in real life speaking contexts?
43. Speaking & fluency Encourage students to draw on their own experiences when speaking. Use brainstorming activities as the basis of introductory speaking activities. Give speaking activities a realistic, grounded context that the learners can relate to. Focus on speaking activities that will be useful to learners in the real world. Encourage learners to be open with each other and open up to them too.
44. Anecdotes “Teachers often ask students for a personal response to something … These are usually short exchanges… An anecdote activity on the other hand is an extended speaking activity which provides an opportunity for students to tackle a longer piece of discourse and develop their speaking skills.” Sue Kay, 2001
46. How do anecdote activities work? Topics that are familiar to the students are covered. A model is given as a pre-task listening activity. Question prompts are given to aid preparation. Students are given preparation time - this increases accuracy and fluency.
47. How do anecdote activities work? Students choose what they talk about from the question prompts. The tasks are done in pairs so they are not face-threatening. Tasks involve sufficient linguistic challenge / complexity – this ensures progress of students’ understanding of the language. Students may be given opportunities to repeat the task – this further enhances accuracy and fluency.
48. Let’s try one … Think about a friend who is different from you. Close your eyes and listen to the questions. Think about your friend. Intermediate SB
49. Successful anecdotes: Tip 1 Try reading the prompt questions to students, as a closed book activity, to get them to recall their memories – guided visualization.
50. Successful anecdotes: Tip 2 Train students in strategies for showing interest in their partner’s story.This helps the partner and is a very useful conversation skill to develop too. Interjections “Really?” “That’s interesting” “Wow” etc
51. Successful anecdotes: Tip 3 If students ‘dry up’ during a an anecdote task encourage their partner to help them by asking on of the prompt questions from the book or a follow on question of their own.
52. Successful anecdotes: Tip 4 Train students to use follow on questions “When did it happen?” “Who were you with?” “Why didn’t you…?” “Where were you when…?” “How did you manage to…?”
53. Successful anecdotes: Tip 5 Teach students conventions of turn-taking so that they can signal when they have finished their story and their partner can take their turn. “How about you?” “What about you?” “Tell me about…”
54. Successful anecdotes: Tip 6 Encourage students to give each other feedback on their performance. Then get students to repeat the anecdote with another partner.
55. References Scott Thornbury, 2006 “An A – Z of ELT” Sue Kay, 2001 “Anecdote activities” In English Teaching professional (Issue 19) Ron Walker, 2004, “Good ELT practice” IATEFL Issues issue 181 Alison Spice, 1999, “Best Practice in pre-departure language training” Michigan Foreign Language Association, 2004, “The Definition of Best Practice for the Student Teaching Experience” Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones, “New Inside Out” www.insideout.net