Looking Back and Looking Forward

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Looking Back and Looking Forward

• 2005, 6, 13
• Alice Chiu

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Things I want to share today

• exciting ideas or activities
• reflections on the practice this semester
• future teaching plan / expectations

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Exciting ideas or activities (1)Graphic
Organizers

• Cluster diagram (1)
• Concept map / Mind map (4) (8)
• Outline (4) (12 finding main ideas)
• Venn Diagram
• Chart (3) -- Fishbone diagram (7)
• KWHL (11)

• http//www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/specifi
  cgos.html
• http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/le
  arning/lr2grap.htm
• http//www.loyno.edu/dciolino/Classes/GraphicOrga
  nizers.htm

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Exciting ideas or activities (2)Other
reading/writing activities

• Scrambled sentences (2)
• Information Hunting (lesson plan 4)
• Predicting the story (6)
• Topic Sentence (10)
• Sentence combining (instructions 11)
• Discussions (12)

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Exciting ideas or activities (3) Extension
Activity

• Individual work/ Pair work / Group work
• Multiple Intelligences
• Production / Performance
• The Internet and ELT
• googling
• iwill (www.iwillnow.org)
• iearn (www.iearn.org)
• Bookmark design (www.learnenglish.org.uk)
• Cyber Fair Volunteer Reviewer (www.gsn.org).

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Reflections (1) Teaching Philosophy

• Learning Pyramid
• Instructional Design
• Cooperative Learning
• Independent/Active Learning
• Critical thinking
• 21st Century Literacy
• Technology Literacy
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• Social Competence and Responsibility

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Reflections (2) Ideals vs. Reality

• Learner-centered vs. Teacher-centered
• Process-oriented vs. Product-oriented
• ICT and ELT

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Reflections (3) Isolation vs. Collaboration

• Teaching (Rainbow I)
• Researching (This group)
• Action Group (iwill)
• Action Group (ETS)
• Collaborative Team (CSGHS)

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Future Plan (1) Food for thought

• What do I want?
• What do I have?
• How do I use what I have to get what I want?
• What will happen as a result?

Teaching or something else?
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Future Plan (2) teaching

• Learning activities for 11th graders
• Reshaping the workplace landscape

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Future Plan (3) researchingInterested topics

• Career cycle
• Professional Development
• Personal Growth
• Teachers Live and work
• Stories of changes
• ICT in ELT

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Career Cycle

• Dynamics of the Teacher Career Cycle (Fessler
  J. Christensen, 1992)

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