Bienvenidos a la clase de español 2018-2019Sara O'Neal
A short power point to summary the Spanish classes syllabus for Spanish I,II,III, High School and Spanish for 6-8 Middle School at IBERVILLE ACADEMY - MSA EAST
Mrs. Belen López is a Spanish teacher at LBHS. She was born in Spain and received her education at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her goals for her Spanish classes are to provide academic and language skills to help students communicate in Spanish through reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar through reading assignments, writing essays and paragraphs, and participation. To be successful, students should regularly attend class, participate in the target language, and frequently practice Spanish outside of class.
The document summarizes a lesson plan for an English class focusing on reported speech. The lesson aims to teach students to differentiate between direct and reported speech, and to use reported statements, commands, and questions. The plan outlines teaching points, aims, materials, activities, and potential challenges. Students will practice reported speech through analyzing a letter and short excerpt, and will learn related vocabulary and grammar structures.
This lesson plan is for a kindergarten class of 25 students learning colors and shapes in English. The 30-minute lesson follows the PPP structure and includes a routine, warm up, presentation, practice, and production stage. In the presentation, students will watch a video song introducing new colors. During practice, students will dance to the song wearing colored t-shirts to reinforce the colors. In production, students will color and draw shapes in assigned colors to practice what they learned.
This lesson plan is for a first grade class in Viedma, Argentina. It involves a 80 minute lesson on toys. The lesson will begin with a greeting song to check in on students' moods. Students will then review weather vocabulary before learning new vocabulary for 8 different toys. The main activity involves students working in groups to collect toys from boxes based on descriptions. The lesson will conclude with students drawing and describing their favorite toy.
This document provides a lesson plan for a class on the novel "Four Weddings and a Funeral". The lesson plan aims to develop students' reading comprehension, vocabulary, and use of language learning technologies. Students will read a chapter from the novel, discuss vocabulary related to funerals, listen to a poem, and use apps to create word clouds and record alternate endings. The lesson incorporates group work, reading aloud, and writing assignments to practice the new vocabulary in meaningful ways.
The document summarizes an English lesson plan for a class of 5-year-olds focusing on the topic of family. The 30-minute lesson includes the aims of identifying family members, expressing moods, and developing listening skills. It outlines warm-up, presentation, practice, and production stages using a video, pictures, family tree activity, and goodbye song. The lesson plan considers different family structures and aims to develop students' linguistic, social and cooperative skills through group work.
This document is a lesson plan created by Miriam Novillo Hall for a class of third year students. The lesson plan aims to teach students about reported or indirect speech using examples related to parties and celebrations. The lesson contains warmup activities, presentations, practice exercises, and a production stage. Students will practice changing direct speech into reported statements, learn new vocabulary related to parties, and read a text about prom traditions. The plan demonstrates the use of group work, visual aids, and communicative activities to engage students and provide meaningful grammar practice.
Bienvenidos a la clase de español 2018-2019Sara O'Neal
A short power point to summary the Spanish classes syllabus for Spanish I,II,III, High School and Spanish for 6-8 Middle School at IBERVILLE ACADEMY - MSA EAST
Mrs. Belen López is a Spanish teacher at LBHS. She was born in Spain and received her education at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her goals for her Spanish classes are to provide academic and language skills to help students communicate in Spanish through reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar through reading assignments, writing essays and paragraphs, and participation. To be successful, students should regularly attend class, participate in the target language, and frequently practice Spanish outside of class.
The document summarizes a lesson plan for an English class focusing on reported speech. The lesson aims to teach students to differentiate between direct and reported speech, and to use reported statements, commands, and questions. The plan outlines teaching points, aims, materials, activities, and potential challenges. Students will practice reported speech through analyzing a letter and short excerpt, and will learn related vocabulary and grammar structures.
This lesson plan is for a kindergarten class of 25 students learning colors and shapes in English. The 30-minute lesson follows the PPP structure and includes a routine, warm up, presentation, practice, and production stage. In the presentation, students will watch a video song introducing new colors. During practice, students will dance to the song wearing colored t-shirts to reinforce the colors. In production, students will color and draw shapes in assigned colors to practice what they learned.
This lesson plan is for a first grade class in Viedma, Argentina. It involves a 80 minute lesson on toys. The lesson will begin with a greeting song to check in on students' moods. Students will then review weather vocabulary before learning new vocabulary for 8 different toys. The main activity involves students working in groups to collect toys from boxes based on descriptions. The lesson will conclude with students drawing and describing their favorite toy.
This document provides a lesson plan for a class on the novel "Four Weddings and a Funeral". The lesson plan aims to develop students' reading comprehension, vocabulary, and use of language learning technologies. Students will read a chapter from the novel, discuss vocabulary related to funerals, listen to a poem, and use apps to create word clouds and record alternate endings. The lesson incorporates group work, reading aloud, and writing assignments to practice the new vocabulary in meaningful ways.
The document summarizes an English lesson plan for a class of 5-year-olds focusing on the topic of family. The 30-minute lesson includes the aims of identifying family members, expressing moods, and developing listening skills. It outlines warm-up, presentation, practice, and production stages using a video, pictures, family tree activity, and goodbye song. The lesson plan considers different family structures and aims to develop students' linguistic, social and cooperative skills through group work.
This document is a lesson plan created by Miriam Novillo Hall for a class of third year students. The lesson plan aims to teach students about reported or indirect speech using examples related to parties and celebrations. The lesson contains warmup activities, presentations, practice exercises, and a production stage. Students will practice changing direct speech into reported statements, learn new vocabulary related to parties, and read a text about prom traditions. The plan demonstrates the use of group work, visual aids, and communicative activities to engage students and provide meaningful grammar practice.
1) The lesson plan is for a kindergarten class introducing personal presentations including names and ages.
2) During the lesson, students will develop listening skills through a story, identify family members, and practice classroom commands.
3) A variety of activities are planned to introduce vocabulary like family members, have students present their own names and ages, celebrate a birthday, and encourage self-expression through drawing.
Milena Rojas is a kindergarten teacher who met with student teacher Miriam Novillo Hall to discuss her upcoming teaching period. Milena advised Miriam that she would be working with a noisy group of 5-year-olds and should find engaging ways to keep them focused on lessons. Milena also explained the classroom routines, available tools, and that kindergarteners are not yet writing so lessons should focus on visual, listening, and speaking activities. They discussed the teaching strategies and methodologies Miriam should use, as well as how she would be evaluated by Milena and her tutor.
This lesson plan is for a 7th grade enrichment class on public speaking and storytelling. The objectives are for students to understand what storytelling is, its importance, and proper techniques. The lesson will introduce storytelling and its purposes of developing imagination, widening horizons, providing enjoyment, and helping solve problems. Students will learn dos and don'ts of storytelling, such as making it interesting but not losing the message. For evaluation, students will be divided into groups to prepare and perform original stories applying what they learned.
The document provides details of an English lesson for 5-year-olds focusing on shapes and introducing new colors. The lesson includes singing greetings songs, reviewing shapes through flashcards, introducing a robot picture incorporating the new colors pink, purple, white and brown, and having students complete a coloring activity of the robot using the correct colors. Homework involves sending parents a note with a link to an online coloring page for practicing at home.
This lesson plan is for a 30-minute class for 5-year-olds learning colors in English. It includes activities to introduce and practice the colors green, blue, pink, and purple through songs, flashcards, a hopscotch game, and a rainbow coloring worksheet. The plan aims to help students learn the new vocabulary, recognize and identify the colors, and respond to commands in English.
This lesson plan is for a 30-minute English class for 5-year-olds focusing on colors. The lesson will introduce new colors purple, blue, green, and pink through a warm-up activity showing color cards and eliciting the names. Then students will practice identifying colored balls from bags and use them to make caterpillar pets out of cardboard rings, gluing different colored balls onto the rings for the head and tail. Finally, students will name their caterpillar pets before leaving class.
- The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching English to third year students focused on Halloween.
- The lesson plan includes aims to develop listening, speaking, reading and understanding skills through activities matching vocabulary, answering questions, reading a story introduction and identifying correct information.
- Key vocabulary like pumpkin, ghost, and witch are presented and the story introduction from the book "Halloween Horror" is explored through a missing word activity and comprehension questions.
- The document outlines a lesson plan for a class introducing shapes to 5-year-olds.
- The lesson begins with revising colors and numbers through songs and questions. New vocabulary of shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle) is then presented through flashcards, questions, and a hand shape song.
- Students practice the new vocabulary by creating a flag with different shapes following the teacher's instructions and using a book and provided materials.
- The lesson closes by singing a goodbye song incorporating previously learned motions.
This lesson plan is for a 30-minute class for 5-year-olds learning colors and fruits in English. The lesson will begin with a greeting song to welcome students. Then students will play a dice game to review colors and fruits. Index cards with colored fruit skewers will be used to introduce the main activity where students make their own fruit skewers according to the card. Finally, students will eat their fruit skewers to conclude the lesson. The teacher aims to foster vocabulary learning and identification of colors and fruits through contextualized activities using real fruits.
This lesson plan teaches colors (yellow, red, orange) and fruits (apple, orange, banana) to young learners. The plan includes warm-up, presentation, practice, and closure activities. Warm-up involves recalling colors from the previous lesson. Presentation introduces fruit vocabulary using real fruits. During practice, students color worksheets with colored rice matching fruits to colors. Closure has students clean up neatly.
The document provides a lesson plan for teaching English to third year students in Argentina. The lesson plan focuses on reading comprehension of Chapter 5 from the novel "Four Weddings and a Funeral". The lesson involves students analyzing pictures of funerals from different cultures, reading and discussing the selected chapter, and writing short summaries of the chapter using a classroom app on their phones. The goal is for students to develop vocabulary and understanding of funerals from various perspectives.
The document discusses an English immersion program held in Barranquilla, Colombia from November 17th to December 7th. It covers topics like reading, writing, speaking, listening, standards, methodology, pre-reading strategies, the writing process, participation levels in the classroom, implementing standards, lesson planning, learning theories, microteaching strategies, and the benefits of participating in the immersion program.
This document provides a lesson plan for an English class taught to 3 students ages 4-5. The 40-minute lesson focuses on greetings, weather, and colors. It includes 4 activities: 1) introducing greetings vocabulary through a video song, 2) introducing weather vocabulary using flashcards, 3) introducing color vocabulary through a balloon blowing game, and 4) reviewing colors by having students jump on colored pieces of cardboard. The teacher aims to develop students' vocabulary, listening, motor, visual, and social skills through interactive activities with scaffolding such as gestures, visual aids, and explanations in both English and the students' native language.
The document is a lesson plan for an English class focused on reported speech. The lesson plan outlines the objectives, which are for students to differentiate between direct and reported speech and use indirect speech to report what was said in a letter. It details the warm up, presentation, practice activities, and production section of the lesson. The practice activities have students changing statements and questions to reported speech and matching reporting verbs to their definitions. The production has students rewrite a letter about a wedding using reported speech.
This document discusses activities to help children learn and practice writing in English. It emphasizes developing fine motor skills through letter formation, as well as linking writing to other language skills like reading, speaking, and listening. The activities provided include practicing the alphabet song, forming words with letters, storytelling, and writing freely about pictures. The conclusion stresses that writing develops through integrating it with other skills and allowing children to communicate through their writing.
Techniques to teach drama in a language classroomRajeev Ranjan
The document provides techniques for teaching English through drama in the classroom. It outlines 5 tasks using a monologue from Anton Chekhov's play "Ivanov" as the basis for activities to develop students' language skills. The tasks include warm-up games, role-plays, group discussions, writing assignments, and comprehension questions to help students analyze the characters and themes in the monologue. The document argues that using drama is an engaging way to maximize language learning and develop students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities in a fun, non-serious manner.
- The document summarizes a trainee teacher's lessons with an upper intermediate ESL class.
- In Lesson 1, students introduced themselves by describing their families and hometowns. This helped build rapport.
- In Lesson 2, students discussed the 9/11 attacks by reading an article and completing worksheets. They were engaged and eager to participate.
- In Lesson 3, students finished a vocabulary task, predicted facts about an accident, and continued practicing narrative tenses. The lessons focused on communicative language teaching.
The document discusses how Bank Street teaches languages to students. It teaches languages through meaningful context focusing on students' experiences and cultural curriculums about countries that speak the target language. It uses hands-on projects involving both language and culture to give students concrete experiences. Teachers use various methods and channels to accommodate different learning styles, relying on visuals, writing, and homework. Classes aim to immerse students in the target language through instruction and requiring communication in that language, and sometimes assignments outside class. Teachers create a safe environment to understand and produce a new language by encouraging speaking in every class.
This document provides a lesson plan for an English class focusing on giving directions. The 80-minute lesson will begin with a warm-up reviewing previous vocabulary and introducing new vocabulary related to directions. Students will then listen to a story and complete activities practicing writing directions. The lesson aims to develop students' listening, speaking, and writing skills for giving directions in English.
This document outlines a classroom project on teaching English prepositions to students using a teddy bear and box as props. The project aims to help students improve their communicative skills in English by learning to accurately use prepositions and recognizing differences from Spanish. It will involve twice weekly lessons using charts, handouts and interactive activities like filling in blanks and an oral lesson with the props. Students will be assessed on their ability to recognize and use English prepositions correctly.
Teacher intercultural development nz keynote 2010Annie Muir
This document discusses teachers' development of intercultural skills over time through their own experiences learning other languages and cultures. It profiles 5 teachers over 10 years and how their understanding of interculturality has changed from an initial awareness to fully designing intercultural learning. The teachers now actively compare cultures in the target language, elicit students' intercultural knowledge, and assess learning through cultural understanding rather than just language use. Their own intercultural learning allows them to better facilitate students' intercultural development.
This document discusses teaching speaking skills in secondary schools. It defines speaking as an interactive process of constructing meaning through producing, receiving, and processing information. There are several skills involved in speaking like using proper stress, intonation, vocabulary and organizing thoughts. The document outlines different types of classroom speaking activities like imitative, responsive, transactional and interpersonal. It also discusses teaching monologue and dialogue, providing stages and structures. Suggestions are given to maximize student speaking opportunities and reduce teacher talking time to develop oral communication skills.
1) The lesson plan is for a kindergarten class introducing personal presentations including names and ages.
2) During the lesson, students will develop listening skills through a story, identify family members, and practice classroom commands.
3) A variety of activities are planned to introduce vocabulary like family members, have students present their own names and ages, celebrate a birthday, and encourage self-expression through drawing.
Milena Rojas is a kindergarten teacher who met with student teacher Miriam Novillo Hall to discuss her upcoming teaching period. Milena advised Miriam that she would be working with a noisy group of 5-year-olds and should find engaging ways to keep them focused on lessons. Milena also explained the classroom routines, available tools, and that kindergarteners are not yet writing so lessons should focus on visual, listening, and speaking activities. They discussed the teaching strategies and methodologies Miriam should use, as well as how she would be evaluated by Milena and her tutor.
This lesson plan is for a 7th grade enrichment class on public speaking and storytelling. The objectives are for students to understand what storytelling is, its importance, and proper techniques. The lesson will introduce storytelling and its purposes of developing imagination, widening horizons, providing enjoyment, and helping solve problems. Students will learn dos and don'ts of storytelling, such as making it interesting but not losing the message. For evaluation, students will be divided into groups to prepare and perform original stories applying what they learned.
The document provides details of an English lesson for 5-year-olds focusing on shapes and introducing new colors. The lesson includes singing greetings songs, reviewing shapes through flashcards, introducing a robot picture incorporating the new colors pink, purple, white and brown, and having students complete a coloring activity of the robot using the correct colors. Homework involves sending parents a note with a link to an online coloring page for practicing at home.
This lesson plan is for a 30-minute class for 5-year-olds learning colors in English. It includes activities to introduce and practice the colors green, blue, pink, and purple through songs, flashcards, a hopscotch game, and a rainbow coloring worksheet. The plan aims to help students learn the new vocabulary, recognize and identify the colors, and respond to commands in English.
This lesson plan is for a 30-minute English class for 5-year-olds focusing on colors. The lesson will introduce new colors purple, blue, green, and pink through a warm-up activity showing color cards and eliciting the names. Then students will practice identifying colored balls from bags and use them to make caterpillar pets out of cardboard rings, gluing different colored balls onto the rings for the head and tail. Finally, students will name their caterpillar pets before leaving class.
- The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching English to third year students focused on Halloween.
- The lesson plan includes aims to develop listening, speaking, reading and understanding skills through activities matching vocabulary, answering questions, reading a story introduction and identifying correct information.
- Key vocabulary like pumpkin, ghost, and witch are presented and the story introduction from the book "Halloween Horror" is explored through a missing word activity and comprehension questions.
- The document outlines a lesson plan for a class introducing shapes to 5-year-olds.
- The lesson begins with revising colors and numbers through songs and questions. New vocabulary of shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle) is then presented through flashcards, questions, and a hand shape song.
- Students practice the new vocabulary by creating a flag with different shapes following the teacher's instructions and using a book and provided materials.
- The lesson closes by singing a goodbye song incorporating previously learned motions.
This lesson plan is for a 30-minute class for 5-year-olds learning colors and fruits in English. The lesson will begin with a greeting song to welcome students. Then students will play a dice game to review colors and fruits. Index cards with colored fruit skewers will be used to introduce the main activity where students make their own fruit skewers according to the card. Finally, students will eat their fruit skewers to conclude the lesson. The teacher aims to foster vocabulary learning and identification of colors and fruits through contextualized activities using real fruits.
This lesson plan teaches colors (yellow, red, orange) and fruits (apple, orange, banana) to young learners. The plan includes warm-up, presentation, practice, and closure activities. Warm-up involves recalling colors from the previous lesson. Presentation introduces fruit vocabulary using real fruits. During practice, students color worksheets with colored rice matching fruits to colors. Closure has students clean up neatly.
The document provides a lesson plan for teaching English to third year students in Argentina. The lesson plan focuses on reading comprehension of Chapter 5 from the novel "Four Weddings and a Funeral". The lesson involves students analyzing pictures of funerals from different cultures, reading and discussing the selected chapter, and writing short summaries of the chapter using a classroom app on their phones. The goal is for students to develop vocabulary and understanding of funerals from various perspectives.
The document discusses an English immersion program held in Barranquilla, Colombia from November 17th to December 7th. It covers topics like reading, writing, speaking, listening, standards, methodology, pre-reading strategies, the writing process, participation levels in the classroom, implementing standards, lesson planning, learning theories, microteaching strategies, and the benefits of participating in the immersion program.
This document provides a lesson plan for an English class taught to 3 students ages 4-5. The 40-minute lesson focuses on greetings, weather, and colors. It includes 4 activities: 1) introducing greetings vocabulary through a video song, 2) introducing weather vocabulary using flashcards, 3) introducing color vocabulary through a balloon blowing game, and 4) reviewing colors by having students jump on colored pieces of cardboard. The teacher aims to develop students' vocabulary, listening, motor, visual, and social skills through interactive activities with scaffolding such as gestures, visual aids, and explanations in both English and the students' native language.
The document is a lesson plan for an English class focused on reported speech. The lesson plan outlines the objectives, which are for students to differentiate between direct and reported speech and use indirect speech to report what was said in a letter. It details the warm up, presentation, practice activities, and production section of the lesson. The practice activities have students changing statements and questions to reported speech and matching reporting verbs to their definitions. The production has students rewrite a letter about a wedding using reported speech.
This document discusses activities to help children learn and practice writing in English. It emphasizes developing fine motor skills through letter formation, as well as linking writing to other language skills like reading, speaking, and listening. The activities provided include practicing the alphabet song, forming words with letters, storytelling, and writing freely about pictures. The conclusion stresses that writing develops through integrating it with other skills and allowing children to communicate through their writing.
Techniques to teach drama in a language classroomRajeev Ranjan
The document provides techniques for teaching English through drama in the classroom. It outlines 5 tasks using a monologue from Anton Chekhov's play "Ivanov" as the basis for activities to develop students' language skills. The tasks include warm-up games, role-plays, group discussions, writing assignments, and comprehension questions to help students analyze the characters and themes in the monologue. The document argues that using drama is an engaging way to maximize language learning and develop students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities in a fun, non-serious manner.
- The document summarizes a trainee teacher's lessons with an upper intermediate ESL class.
- In Lesson 1, students introduced themselves by describing their families and hometowns. This helped build rapport.
- In Lesson 2, students discussed the 9/11 attacks by reading an article and completing worksheets. They were engaged and eager to participate.
- In Lesson 3, students finished a vocabulary task, predicted facts about an accident, and continued practicing narrative tenses. The lessons focused on communicative language teaching.
The document discusses how Bank Street teaches languages to students. It teaches languages through meaningful context focusing on students' experiences and cultural curriculums about countries that speak the target language. It uses hands-on projects involving both language and culture to give students concrete experiences. Teachers use various methods and channels to accommodate different learning styles, relying on visuals, writing, and homework. Classes aim to immerse students in the target language through instruction and requiring communication in that language, and sometimes assignments outside class. Teachers create a safe environment to understand and produce a new language by encouraging speaking in every class.
This document provides a lesson plan for an English class focusing on giving directions. The 80-minute lesson will begin with a warm-up reviewing previous vocabulary and introducing new vocabulary related to directions. Students will then listen to a story and complete activities practicing writing directions. The lesson aims to develop students' listening, speaking, and writing skills for giving directions in English.
This document outlines a classroom project on teaching English prepositions to students using a teddy bear and box as props. The project aims to help students improve their communicative skills in English by learning to accurately use prepositions and recognizing differences from Spanish. It will involve twice weekly lessons using charts, handouts and interactive activities like filling in blanks and an oral lesson with the props. Students will be assessed on their ability to recognize and use English prepositions correctly.
Teacher intercultural development nz keynote 2010Annie Muir
This document discusses teachers' development of intercultural skills over time through their own experiences learning other languages and cultures. It profiles 5 teachers over 10 years and how their understanding of interculturality has changed from an initial awareness to fully designing intercultural learning. The teachers now actively compare cultures in the target language, elicit students' intercultural knowledge, and assess learning through cultural understanding rather than just language use. Their own intercultural learning allows them to better facilitate students' intercultural development.
This document discusses teaching speaking skills in secondary schools. It defines speaking as an interactive process of constructing meaning through producing, receiving, and processing information. There are several skills involved in speaking like using proper stress, intonation, vocabulary and organizing thoughts. The document outlines different types of classroom speaking activities like imitative, responsive, transactional and interpersonal. It also discusses teaching monologue and dialogue, providing stages and structures. Suggestions are given to maximize student speaking opportunities and reduce teacher talking time to develop oral communication skills.
The document outlines an unusual lesson plan framework for teaching English using literature. It involves 6 stages: 1) Readiness activities to prepare students mentally for a text. 2) Experiential activities where students experience a text multidimensionally before understanding it linguistically. 3) Intake response activities where students reflect on and articulate their text experience. 4) Development activities where students produce language based on their text experience. 5) Input response activities where students discover language patterns. 6) More development activities providing opportunities for meaningful language use and expanding ideas. The framework is meant to engage students affectively and have them discover language patterns following a deep text experience.
Script for spanish around the world introductionTracie Toy
The instructor, Tracie Toy, holds degrees in psychology, education, and has taught English as a Second Language for 8 years. She created the Spanish Around the World course to teach vocabulary, grammar, and culture in a fun, self-paced way using videos, audio, and activities. The course is designed for students with different learning styles and busy schedules. Students are encouraged to determine their commitment level and goals for learning Spanish based on their desire and enthusiasm for the language. Instructor support is provided to students throughout the course.
Jennifer Wilson presented strategies for teaching literacy to non-native English speakers ages 3-5. The key components are:
1) Focus on oral language development through songs, stories, and actions before expecting reading and writing.
2) Immerse children in the language by using everyday phrases, labeling items, and exposing children to English TV and books.
3) Teach the sounds of the language systematically while continuing to provide rich vocabulary through stories, pictures, and questions.
This document discusses interpersonal and task-based listening. It begins by providing context on listening being an underdeveloped skill and how listening lessons tend to rely on routines without challenge. It then discusses the various processes involved in listening at different linguistic levels from phonological to syntactic. Several sample listening tasks are provided that focus on meaningful communication and information gaps. The tasks are designed to match listening activities to specific sub-skills. The document emphasizes the importance of bottom-up decoding and that listening cannot be taught in isolation. It concludes by noting research supporting the role of comprehensible input and interaction in second language acquisition.
This document provides information and advice about teaching English to young learners. It discusses how children acquire their first language by listening from birth and repeating words. As teachers, using similar techniques like caretaker talk can help students learn English naturally. The document emphasizes using English in the classroom and recasting what students say in their native language into English. It also covers developing social skills, classroom routines, classroom management strategies like time-out areas, and an example of effective classroom management in a video of Lilia's classroom.
Spanish british integrated curriculum in early childhood educationsilbaumar
This document provides guidelines for developing an integrated Spanish-English bilingual curriculum for early childhood education. It outlines key aspects of an existing bilingual education project in Spain that aims to provide children ages 3-16 with education in both Spanish and English. The summary focuses on planning between Spanish and English teachers, teaching content through meaningful topics, developing social skills, and promoting literacy skills in both languages.
This document provides information on an activity called "dictogloss" that can be used to practice language skills with minimal resources. Dictogloss involves the teacher reading a short text to students once, who then take notes on key words. Students then work in groups to reconstruct the text using their notes. The document discusses how dictogloss can be adapted for different age groups and language levels. It emphasizes that dictogloss stimulates imagination and creativity in early learners and is a good way to introduce new vocabulary through context.
This document provides guidance and suggestions for English language teaching activities that can be used in classroom settings. It discusses the importance of engaging students and making them comfortable taking risks. A variety of activity types are described, including spelling/vocabulary games, listening exercises, communication activities, and writing prompts. Guidelines are provided for preparing students and managing group work. Specific activity examples involve word games like creating sentences from a list of words or coming up with as many words as possible from a long word. The document emphasizes creating a fun, interactive environment where students can practice using English without fear of making mistakes.
The document discusses using role plays and drama on "Magic Adventure Day" to make English classes more dynamic and motivate students. It proposes organizing one day a week where students reinforce topics through playful role playing activities. Examples of informal lesson plans for role plays are provided. Role plays are said to help students develop communication skills and use language pragmatically in context. The proposal must be submitted to the school director and shared with the community. Role plays allow students to communicate ideas and emotions through assuming perspectives in make-believe situations.
(Longman Handbooks for Language Teachers) J. Haycraft-An Introduction to Engl...elavasquezmuoz
This document provides an introduction to teaching English as a foreign language. It discusses some of the challenges that both teachers and students may face when dealing with different nationalities and cultures. While foreigners have some advantages like being exotic and having easy conversation topics, truly understanding a new culture and community can be difficult. Both foreign teachers and students will inevitably encounter cultural differences and misunderstandings. The relationship between foreigner and native requires an awareness of these challenges.
The document provides guidance for teaching English to young learners. It discusses using "caretaker talk" which involves repeating words and associating the sounds with visuals, as parents do when helping children learn their first language. Examples are given of conversations between teachers and students that demonstrate this technique. The document also emphasizes the importance of exposing children to a lot of English and encouraging their efforts to speak in the new language.
The document discusses developing listening skills in language learners. It suggests that listening is often the most neglected skill by both teachers and students, who fear listening tests. There are no quick fixes, but listening can be improved over several years. Suggestions include drilling isolated sounds and linking them to spelling, using diagrams to explain articulation, using tongue twisters, and modeling correct stress and intonation. Developing bottom-up listening involves teaching vocabulary in context, transcription tasks, and exploiting "narrow listening" with similar vocabulary across texts. Teachers should devote class time to listening practice and build students' confidence in their listening abilities.
This document discusses teaching English to children and outlines some best practices. It recommends starting English education around age 6 through full immersion programs. The key objectives are to teach basic vocabulary like colors and numbers, hold activities like games and stories, and create an enjoyable atmosphere where children feel comfortable communicating. It also stresses the importance of evaluation, using appropriate content for the children's level, and creating different areas in the classroom for activities, materials, and play. Policymakers should recognize that early education alone does not guarantee language learning, support age-appropriate instruction, and help build motivation for further study outside the classroom.
The teacher welcomes students to 9th grade Spanish class and explains that learning Spanish will give them cultural awareness, communication skills, and advantages in their future. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the US. The teacher wants to create an equal learning environment based on a "Class Constitution" outlining students' rights, such as the right to be respected, learn comfortably, ask questions, and have fun. The constitution will be further developed by the class. The teacher looks forward to getting to know the students and having a successful school year.
This document provides an overview of the Spanish curriculum for grades 1-5 at The Well School for the 2010-2011 academic year. It was prepared by Raisa A. Lawrence and covers the program goals, methodology, materials, and standards used to teach Spanish. The primary goals are for students to be able to communicate through conversations, reading, writing, and gain an understanding of Hispanic cultures. The main teaching methods utilized are the Natural Approach, Total Physical Response, Waldorf education techniques, and Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling.
This document discusses the benefits of pair and group work in language classrooms. It argues that pair and group work (1) allows students more opportunities to speak, (2) improves speaking skills through natural interactions, and (3) encourages a collaborative learning environment. It then compares traditional teacher-centered instruction to pair and group work, noting that pair and group work shifts the focus from accuracy to fluency and gives students more autonomy over their learning. Finally, it provides tips for implementing effective pair and group work, such as choosing manageable activities, providing necessary vocabulary, and giving regular feedback.
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This document discusses mentoring colleagues and the role of an instructional coach. It provides an overview of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, which outline what teachers should know and be able to do at various stages of their career. An instructional coach can help mentors grow by modeling high-level teaching skills, supporting colleagues undergoing accreditation, and establishing a professional learning hub for workshops, observations, and sharing best practices. The coaching process involves setting goals, lesson planning, observations, and debrief meetings to help teachers improve.
Leadership in Languages MLTANSW workshop 2015MLTA of NSW
The document discusses challenges facing language programs at Ravenswood, a girls' school in Sydney. It asks how to increase student numbers in senior language classes to avoid combining HSC and IB classes. Another trend is more students choosing the IB diploma over the HSC, impacting language class structures. Suggested strategies include engaging students through interesting programs, external accreditation opportunities, immersion experiences, and flexibility in timetabling. The document advocates fighting to ensure quality time, dedicated spaces, resources, and passionate teachers for language programs.
This document discusses qualities of effective leadership and team management. It begins by outlining Australian teaching standards regarding professional engagement and ethics. It then presents qualities of effective leaders, including prioritizing, decision-making, respecting staff, setting goals together, and leading by example with integrity. The document also identifies poor leadership qualities like indecisiveness, not fighting for one's team, and micromanaging. Finally, it suggests discussing scenarios to demonstrate how skills, relational qualities, and personal character can help solve problems faced by leaders.
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environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
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significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
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'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
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help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
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This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
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Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
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2. Overview
Background to the study; the current
position of languages in NZ
Outline of the case-study
Data from the survey
Summary of themes from the interviews
Introducing the best educated man of his time
5. Impetus for research
New Zealand’s new curriculum 2010 establishes
Learning Languages as a new learning area.
Contestable Government funding to support
initiatives in languages at Primary school.
Hill, K. & Ward, S. (2003). "Passing the baton:
the transition from primary to secondary
language programs." New Zealand Studies in
Applied Linguistics 9(2): 19 - 36.
6. Riccarton High School
Christchurch, New Zealand
Co-educational, 950 students
32 nationalities
Decile 7
Languages: French, Japanese, Māori
All Year 9s (Year 8s) must choose a
language for the year.
8. Survey of whole cohort
Languages previously studied
French
Chinese Other French
Japanese
Māori
German
Spanish
Māori
Spanish Japanese Chinese
German Other
11. Experiences and motivation
The importance of relationships:
“so I wouldn’t be a nif”
“to connect with family”
“’cos Māori words are similar to Samoan”
“I have relatives and stuff that speak
Japanese”
Teachers, travel
Activities – songs, “real stuff”
12. An environment of diversity
Diversity
Multi-level
Risk-taking
scary, less confident, embarrassed, shy,
gets on everyone’s nerves, jealous
13. Tensions
The “expert” role: “but I don’t so much like
showing off as such, ‘cos then people just – they
get jealous or they just get sick of you showing
off and – sometimes you can get away with it if
you know when to stop showing off, but … a lot
of people don’t know when to stop.”
Frustrations at slower/faster students
An academic hierarchy
14. Collaboration - ako
Working together
Comprehensible input; input + 1
In the mixed class, if you haven’t done it before, you can
pick up things from people that have.
I think it’s a better idea to, like, just leave it as it is with the
mixed thing, so…because then the people that know
things can…help the people that don’t, yeah, that know…
that don’t know as much and don’t understand.
I think I’ve gotten better. I think it’s a lot…Not better as in
learning more words, or more things to do, but better in,
like, pronunciation, understanding.
15. …it only takes a couple more minutes, and
they’ll get it, and it’s like, yeaaahh, yeah, ok. It
doesn’t feel as if it’s holding the learning back, or
anything else.
It’s just taking a little bit longer, and you get the
result for everybody knowing it instead of just
half the people.
16. Mixed-level classes
Mixed groups
Occasionally separated
Choice of activities
“like there were three different levels, like, three piles of
sheets, and some of them were, like, hard, medium and
easy, for you to, like, choose one…”
17. “ It’s just…it’s good…helping people is
kinda cool, ‘cos you know that…you’re
not just helping yourself, like, not like…
you know what I mean?...Like, doing
something else so that other people can
have a good chance and that…that makes
it better”
18. You learn stuff easier,
easier, when you’re like,
enjoying it more.
19. See you in
QUEENSTOWN
NZ Association of Language Teachers:
Biennial International Conference
Scaling remarkable linguistic heights
CULTURE CURRICULUM CREATIVITY
Sunday 4th July – Wednesday 7th July 2010