TEFL for NonTEFLers

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TEFL for Non-TEFLers
Group 24 IST Miercurea Ciuc
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• who has been teaching already?
• formalnonformalinformal continuum
• differences and similarities b/n teaching in a
  school and outside of one
• what should a lesson plan look like?
• teaching is something everyone can do
• resources

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Who has taught already?
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Spot the differences

• no pre-determined curriculum
• unpredictable schedule of classes
• students not necessarily the same every week
• no pre-established hierarchy between teacher and
  student
• - evaluation

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The similarities are important too

• What happens in a typical Romanian classroom?
  Whats the learning environment like?

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Keep in mind How are Romanians accustomed to
learning?
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Differences b/n youths adults
Youth

• they expect an authority figure
• you may not be a teacher, but be as much of one
  as possible

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What should a lesson plan look like?

• The Peace Corps approach Communicative Language
  Teaching
• focuses on the learners ability to apply
  knowledge of a language to communicate
• contrasts with focus on repetition and drilling,
  habit-formation and mimicking

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Communicative Approach Techniques

• Role Play
• Interviews
• Information Gap
• Games
• Language Exchanges
• Surveys
• Pair Work
• Authentic texts

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Needs assessment

• Assessing the student
• A few questions to ask
• - General personal data age, sex, nationality,
  mother tongue
• - Educational background academic,
  professional, vocational
• - Knowledge of other languages
• - Personal priorities speaking, listening,
  reading, writing
• - Reason for learning English
• - Special interests
• - Basic skills
• What to look for
• - Length of interaction
• - Fluency
• - Comprehension
• - Independence
• - Mother-tongue interference
• - Range of vocabulary
• - Appropriateness
• - Accuracy

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Elements of a good lesson

• Well-defined, achievable objectives
• students will be able to use the simple past
  tense to describe 3 events that happened to them
  last year not explain the past tense
• Motivation/Warm Up
• Information
• Practice
• Application

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Teaching English is something everyone can do

• English clubs/tutoring as a secondary project
• a great way to create or further relationships
  with others in your community
• it is a marketable skill

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Integrate teaching as a component of a larger
project

• Our project is a Christmas festival at Castle
  Corvinilor in the city of Hunedoara. It is a 
  family friendly event for social service NGOs
  presenting kids games and art crafts for a small
  tariff. The castle is offers free admission for
  all families. In addition to NGO games and
  activities, the Castle has a decorated Christmas
  tree forest, music and dance performances, food
  and drink vendors on hand and a gingerbread model
  of Castel Corvinilor built with PCV support on
  display as a media showcase.

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• Story time
• Writing prompts
• Rudolph was ready to help Santa when....
• The snow was falling on Christmas Eve and we
  heard some bells in the distance.....
• Music
• RTRNR sing along
• Games
• crossword, word search, spanzuratoare
• Arts
• coloring, create a Christmas card in English
• Critical thinking
• ask students to order a list of Christmas
  presents
• ask students to create list of unusual presents

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Take away

• try to understand your students assumptions
  about teaching and learning
• make sure you elicit then address a specific need
• take charge with youths, collaborate more with
  adults
• By using the communicative approach, you give
  learners the opportunity to use English, and
  thats something PCVs can do better than
  Romanians.

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întrebari si raspunsuri
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• Teaching resources

- TEFL library Mirela and Lauras office -
sign-out books - Hello English manual - look
familiar? - email sign-up list -
www.PeaceCorps.ro resources