ELTCampus Online English Teacher Training

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Let's challenge ourselves to think: How do you think teaching has changed?

James Reflects: Creating Optimal Conditions for Challenge and Growth Part I

Now, let's remind ourselves of how we learn language and what this means for our pre-teens and young adolescents.

Let's check our understanding.

Let's remind ourselves of the importance listening plays in language learning.

Using dictogloss for listening and teaching learners to be effective with it.

A listening activity to adapt for your classroom.

What is Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Interactive Processing?

Check your understanding. Is top down or bottom up processing at work?

Activity: Using Bingo as a motivation activity for listening.

What resources can I use? A listen and select activity to try for yourself.

Creating expectation and interest before listening: an activity to adapt.

Guided Visualisation: What it is and how to adapt it to the language classroom

Ideas for using images to create ideas and speaking opportunities.

James Reflects: Creating optimal conditions for challenge and growth part II.

Using Quizlet: An activity to answer some important questions about speaking.

Activity: Reformulate, re-tell and expand an audio-visual text.

Let's remind ourselves again about the stages of speaking.

Thinking and Speaking: Changes in the brain cause a shift in children's thinking and speaking

Motivation and communication: If the stimulus is right, students will want to talk about it.

Let's review the objectives behind the kinds of tasks we give. Categorise these speaking activities.

Think Aloud Strategy Modelled: A teacher explains her own catgorisation and reasons.

What "Higher-Order Thinking Skills" or H.O.T.S. were applied in this categorisation task?

Using Drama: Take a look at this short dialogue-"Fernando Goes Nuts"

Extension activities for short dialogues

Using Video: Multi modal resources

Using Video: More ideas for the classroom

Using Video: 8 Video Channels for Teens and Pre-teens

Using Image: Going deep

Using Image: One image as the base of a lesson

Using Image: Teacher's think aloud in response to this lesson idea

Presentations: How can we support pre-teens and teens to develop presentation skills?

Our reading memories

Can you identify the main teaching approaches for reading?

Post task reflection: "Pre While and Post" reading lesson stages

Ideas for the Classroom

Identify the skills being practiced in these reading activities

Making it meaningful: Embedding real world tasks and reasons for reading.

Ideas for the Classroom: Reading and Speaking Game Theory, Collaboration and Trust

Reading and Speaking Resource: Game Theory and the Evolution of Trust

Further resources for teaching reading skills

Writing: What skills does writing include?

Feedback and ideas for the classroom

Creative Thinking Tools

Ideas for the Classroom: Activities focused on word and short sentence level.

Break the Secret Code: What decisions do teens need to start making to write successfully at paragraph and text level?

Activity: Assessing and adapting writing tasks for 11-14-year-old children

T.A.P.S: A strategy for planning writing

Assessing writing and giving feedback: Training our learners

How can we assess writing?

Activity: Approaches to Teaching Writing: Product

Approaches to Teaching Writing: Process

Approaches to Teaching Writing: Genre

Ideas for the Classroom

How to scaffold writing tasks

Ideas for the Classroom

Ideas for the classroom

Summary, Sign Off and Further Reading