Spring 2012Teaching English

Feedback on Class 2 Teaching Demos

Things That Were Good

Good Stuff Pair Work

http://suite101.com/article/pair-work-in-the-language-classroom-a67110 Using Pictures to Elicit Ideas/Words

http://www.slideshare.net/josezubia/using-pictures-to-elicit-communication Explanations

http://www.pte.hu/uprt/4.3%20Kalebic.pdf Elicit

http://www.eslfocus.com/articles/techniques_for_eliciting_-445.html Challenge

http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/ilwebb/Research/scaffolding.htm Elicit

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/eliciting Gap Fill

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/gap-fill-generator Introduction and Content

http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kilickaya-AutenticMaterial.html Material Diversity

http://linguistlist.org/sp/GetWRListings.cfm?WRAbbrev=LangLearnESL Nominates Students to Talk

http://edition.tefl.net/articles/teacher-technique/checking-answers/ Encouraging

http://www.classroomsthatwork.com/pdf/THE%20ENCOURAGING%20TEACHER.pdf Enthusiastic

http://teachingchallenges.blogspot.com/2008/12/enthusiastic-teachers.html http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Teacher_Enthusiasm_Research

Things That Need Im-provement Transitions Closing Transitions Patience – wait for students to answer Pre-teaching Transitions Elicit Answers More Student Interaction/Practice Transitions Closing Review Closing – “Do you understand?” Closing Review

Transitions

http://www.teachingwithpurpose.com/Classroom_Transitions_Susan_Douglas.pdf

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/16

http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/kits/wwbtk4.pdf

http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/organization/lessons.html

http://viewsfromthewhiteboard.edublogs.org/

Transitions

How can you help students move from idea to idea? Exercise to exer-cise? Lesson to lesson? Class to class?

Even adult learners need prompts and closure.

Closing a lesson

http://busyteacher.org/3370-7-best-ways-to-end-a-lesson.html

http://edc448uri.wikispaces.com/file/view/40_ways_to_leave_a_lesson.pdf

Patience

http://ezinearticles.com/?Teaching-English-as-a-Foreign-Language---Common-EFL-Classroom-Problems-and-What-to-Do-About-Them&id=1128002

http://suite101.com/article/language-immersion-strategy-for-tefl-instructors-a176122

http://www.ehow.com/how_6395161_handle-difficult-esl-classes.html

Pre-Teaching

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ketae.pd.diff.difpret/

http://suite101.com/article/improving-esl-reading-skills-a13325

Practice Time

http://www.beta-iatefl.org/1211/blog-publications/what-not-to-do-in-the-efl-classroom/

http://teachesl.pbworks.com/f/ila03_chuk.pdf

http://wlkc.nbu.edu.cn/jpkc_nbu/daxueyingyu/download/013.pdf