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Honda Comercial

2. Sharing our toolkits

3. Sharing our toolkits
Ready-made Food (Semi-finished food)
 Practical
 Adaptable
 Inspiring

4. TOOLKIT
 It is the activities, learning tools and general
approaches a teacher takes into a classroom
each time they teach.
 The toolkit varies from teacher to teacher, and
often students’ descriptions of their teachers
reveal some of their trademarks.

5. Warmers/ Fillers
 Meeting at a party
 True/False statements (ice-breaker)
 Why are you here? (circle)

6. True/false statements
 My husband and I have a website
about Adygh meal
 I prefer watching films to reading
books
 I’ve lived in India
 I can write and read in Arabic
 Before teaching I was a tour guide

7. Circle warmer
 Why are you here ?
 What do you want to learn?
 Learning names
 Needs Analysis learner-centred
approach
 A friendly atmosphere

8. Reflection
(Remember your class)
Where were you in
2007?
Where were you in
2010?
Where are you now?

9. Why do items disappear?
Technology changes
Experience
We get lazy!
They disappear from books
We forget
Our teaching situations change
ELT fashion

10. Reflection
 Is change good?
 Do you revisit discredited
ideas?
 Do you reinvent the wheel?
 Do you learn from your
mistakes?
 Have any items disappeared
from your toolkit? Why?

11. My toolkit

12. Group Discussion
 Something you did 5 years ago, but you don’t do
now
 Write your 5 top tools at the moment
On separate pieces of paper to be sticked to the
wall

13. Principles/Approaches
 Teacher Talking Time
 Teacher Waiting Time
 Error Correction
 Clear Instructions
 Multiple intelligence/
Catering for different learning styles

14. Analyzing Video
 Where did teacher go wrong?
 What mistakes did you notice?
(Write them down)
 Which problems do you share with
her?

15. Moving Discussion

16. Teacher Talking Time
 TTT STT
 Which do you agree with :
a) People usually learn best by listening to people
explaining things
b) People usually learn by trying things out and
finding out what works
 Jigsaw reading
 Video teacher reflection

17. Teacher Waiting Time
 Rehearsal time
 Often, the space and silence (i.e. the absence
of the teacher saying something) is what
students need to organise their own thoughts
and find something to say
5-6 SECONDS – Count to yourself

18. Increasing students interaction

19. TTT
 Music
 Watch
 http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

20. Running Dictation
 Ask questions rather than giving explanations
 Allow time for students to listen, think, process
their answer and speak
 Allow silence
 Use gestures to replace unnecessary teacher
talk
 Allow students to finish their own sentences
 Use pairs and groups
 Cut out echo talk
 If a student is speaking too quietly for you to hear,
walk further away, rather than closer to them

21. Clear Instructions
 One short sentence at a time
 Speak a little more slowly than you would
normally do
 Use signposting language: ‘first’, ‘then’
 Demonstrate the task yourself
 Role play it with a student
 Don’t ask ‘do you understand’ question?
Ask special questions:
What do you do next? What do you do with this
picture?

22. Error Correction
 Accuracy Fluency
Immediate correction later
later scaffolding
Dominoes
Some ideas for indicating/correcting errors

23. Indicating that an error has been
made
 Tell students that there is an error
 Use facial expression: surprise, frown, interest
 Use finger correction
 Repeat sentence up to error (They looked for a ..)
 Echo sentence with changed intonation or stress
( You go to a disco yesterday?)
Write the problem sentence on the board for
discussion

24. Dominoes
 http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dominoes/
 http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dominoes/text.p
hp

25. Speaking Activities
 What’s your favorite speaking activity?
 Practical
 Purposeful
 Productive
 Predictable
 Adaptive
Creating and adapting a successful speaking
activity

26. Speaking activities
 Discussions
 Roleplay
 Survey/Find out who
 Guessing game/True or False
 Information gap
 Board games

27. Board games
 http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/word_games.h
tml

28. worditout.com

29. Reminding Vocabulary

30. Lead-in to the text

31. Unscrambling sentence

32. Vocabulary revision