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This feedback document outlines effective teaching strategies used in English language classrooms during Spring 2012. Key highlights include the successful application of pair work, using pictures to elicit ideas, effective explanations, and diverse materials for learning. Strategies like nominating students, encouraging participation, and improving transitions are also emphasized as areas needing enhancement. The importance of patience and proper closing techniques are discussed to ensure student understanding. Relevant resources are provided for further exploration of these teaching methods.
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Feedback on Class 2 Teaching Demos Spring 2012Teaching English
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 Improvement • 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 exercise? 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