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Engaging Language Lessons: Balancing Freedom and Structure in the Classroom

In this insightful session, Dawn Wink explores how to compose engaging English language lessons by finding a balance between freedom and structure. Discover specific strategies and interactive activities that foster student engagement, including Think/Pair/Share, Conversation Circles, and Graphic Organizers. Learn how to create an environment that encourages student-generated ideas while providing guided support. This workshop aims to equip educators with practical tools to enhance student participation and create rigorous, interactive language lessons.

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Engaging Language Lessons: Balancing Freedom and Structure in the Classroom

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  1. Freedom within Structure:How to Compose an Engaged Language Lesson and Class Dawn Wink September 23, 2013 Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2013 ELT Going Through Changes El Domínico Americano Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

  2. Two Truths, One Lie

  3. When you think of an engaged class, what does this look like? What is happening?

  4. What we’ll do: • Concepts for composing an engaging, interactive, rigorous class/presentation/workshop. • Specific strategies and activities

  5. Concepts

  6. Freedom Within Structure One evening I walked into class and announced, ‘Tonight we’re going to talk about structure,” well aware that I was stirring up a hornet’s nest…I wanted to show structure not as restrictive, pharisaic law, but as a means of freedom. ~ Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet, p. 123

  7. Pass the Paper

  8. Think/Pair/Share

  9. Mingle/Cocktail • Student-generated • Teacher-guided

  10. Conversation Line

  11. Conversation Circle

  12. Graphic Organizers

  13. Quickwrite

  14. Teaching with Stones & Glass

  15. New idea/learning for each stone.

  16. Essential idea you’ll take away from today.

  17. Pass the Paper Think/Pair/Share Conversation Line Conversation Circle Mingle Individual Writing Graphic Organizers Quickwrite

  18. Share your plans and ideas with your partner.

  19. DAWN WINK: DEWDROPS Writing, Teaching, Language, Landscape, Life Beauty, Skulls, and Culture FOLLOW BLOG VIA EMAIL This wonderful and wise pendant arrived last week, a gift from my dear friend, Kenna, in celebration of Meadowlark. I cradled it in my palm, felt the intricate ridges of its braided back against my skin, and was again amazed at the unimagined life of its own that unfolds around Meadowlark. CATEGORIES Education Essays and Photo Journals Meadowlark Writing

  20. http://dawnwink.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/teaching-freedom-within-structure-and-teaching-with-stones/http://dawnwink.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/teaching-freedom-within-structure-and-teaching-with-stones/

  21. Keep in touch Dawn Wink www.DawnWink.com Dawnwink.wordpress (Dewdrops) Dawn@dawnwink.com Dawn_wink (Twitter)

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