3. Objectives
• Engage children actively in their learning process.
• Provide opportunities to work in flexible groups.
• Develop good practices in language teaching and
learning that help students to reinforce the basic
competences.
• Recall and reuse information presented in whole
group instruction.
• Assume as teachers the role of facilitators.
• Play and have fun!
5. Parts of a Learning Centre
How do we organize the workshops?
We select six centres for three
sessions and five groups of children.
On each session (90 minutes) each
group plays two centres. The
following weeks they play the other
three. They have a worksheet where
they write words or sentences from
the six workshops.
6. Parts of a Learning Centre
What do you want students to do?
Objective
Tricky words
dominoes
7. Parts of a Learning Centre
Give appealing or well known names.
Name
Chicka
Chicka Boom
Boom
Snakes and
Ladders
8. Parts of a Learning Centre
Students
need to be
able to
move
easily.
Space
9. Parts of a Learning Centre
Neccesary
Adequate
Accesible
Bought
Hand-made
Materials
Portable box
10. Parts of a Learning Centre
Make sure
they know
what they
have to do.
Instructions
You recycle!
11. Parts of a Learning Centre
Variety of
activities
Sequence of
activities
Lose your
letters
Computer
games
12. Parts of a Learning Centre
Base your
decision the
needs of your
students.
Number of centres
13. Parts of a Learning Centre
Keep a centre
only as long as
students' interest
is high and it
meets your
curriculum goals.
Time
Sardines
14. Parts of a Learning Centre
Review rules
and routines.
Management system
15. Parts of a Learning Centre
‘Three before me’
Teacher’s assistant
Help!
Snap cubes
16. Parts of a Learning Centre
Learning log
Worksheet
23. • Workshops have to be designed to
help improve the children’s abilities
and learning.
• It is necessary to know the group
possibilities to create a context to
understand, to produce and to play.
To summarize