SHS Team-teaching Workshop

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SHS Team-teaching Workshop

• Facilitators
• Yamaguchi Akiko (JTE)
  Anne Tan (ALT)

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What every teacher wants in an OC class

• Lessons that will motivate students
• to use English confidently in a real-life
  situation

• To achieve this, lessons need to
• Be easy to understand
• Contain interesting information
• Have useful expressions
• Include confidence-building activities

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Timeline

• 1300 1305 Introduction of workshop
• 1305 1320 Short demonstration
• 1320 1325 Instructions/Form groups
• 1325 1345 Group discussion
• 1345 1350 Make new groups
• 1350 1430 Group report feedback
• 1430 Conclusion

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Topic 1

• Students can remember the words taught during
  OC class for the time it takes to do a class
  activity. However, once lesson is over, parts of
  what they have learnt are forgotten (for example,
  pronunciation, sentence structure).
• Thus, they do not have the confidence to use
  what they know, outside of the classroom.
• How can we help students to retain and apply
  what they have learnt?

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Cause

• No familiarity with words
• Vocabulary is taught in isolation from grammar
  point
• Words taught are not used again.

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Remedy

• Flashcards
• BEFORE New word picture
• NOW New word picture
• Used in context with a grammar
  point
• Change in flashcard methodology
• Words/phrases learnt are re-used in subsequent
  lessons
• For example, clothing money vocabulary is used
  in a shopping lesson
• Speaking test
• Motivated students to use vocabulary/grammar
  phrase in an original manner practice speaking
  independently

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Instructions

• 8 topics have been picked for discussion
• Each group will discuss 1 topic
• Briefly discuss the cause
• Think of strategies/activities that we can use

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Modus Operandi

• Make groups of 5
• There has to be at least 1 JTE, 1 1st year ALT, 1
  2nd (and above) year ALT in each group
• Every group will pick one question from this box
• You have 20 min to discuss this question
• EVERYONE HAS TO TAKE NOTES
• After 20 min, break up and form another group of
  5
• In your new group, you should be the only
  representative of the issue you have discussed
• In 40 min, please share what you have previously
  discussed and ask for feedback (approximately 8
  min for each issue)
• Representatives, please take notes of new ideas
• At the end of this session, please hand in these
  notes. It will be scanned and sent to all
  participants of the workshop

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Topics

• Please think of innovative ways to conduct
  speaking practice activities (e.g. conversation
  practice) in pairs/groups.
• Please state a lesson topic(if applicable)
  before providing specific examples.
• What activities can we plan to create a conducive
  environment (in class outside class) for
  students to use the words or expressions that
  they have learnt in class?
• Many ALTs have to make several lesson plans each
  week to suit the different English curriculum of
  each school. This can mean lesson plans for
  different topics or lesson plans for different
  classes that have differing language abilities.
• Can you share
• 1) any strategies that you use to make this an
  easier task
• 2) any activities that can be easily adapted to
  suit different topics or different classes that
  have differing language abilities ?
• How can we integrate culture into a lesson?
  Please state a lesson topic e.g. Christmas,
  food, travel, music etc (if required) before
  providing specific examples.
• Please share any strategies or activities that
  will help students focus on the English spoken in
  the classroom and not rely solely on the JTEs
  Japanese translation. Please try to be specific.
• It is common to have a class where students have
  differing language abilities. What are some
  lesson planning/class management strategies that
  will let us help students of both strong and weak
  language abilities?
• What are some activities that balances learning
  and fun in the lesson? Please state a lesson
  topic(e.g. Christmas, food, travel, music etc
  (if applicable) before providing specific
  examples.
• Please share some strategies of how OC lessons
  can be made to complement normal English classes
  

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Conclusion

• Be open
• Make time
• Worksheet - Areas for improvements

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Thank you!