Instructional Session 4
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to… All Levels: state six facts about SLA (Second Language Acquisition) in a creative way Notes/Prep: The project that I use in the example lesson is the brochures project; you might also simply have students make a collection of memes, and not the complete brochures, if you want to shorten/simplify the product they create, in the interest of time. You can also have them make posters instead of brochures, perhaps having them work with a partner or in a small group of three students. To prepare for the lesson in Session 5, Card or Slide Talk, you might want to go ahead and tell the students to upload (for Slide Talk) or think about (to sketch on a card for Card Talk) a place they like to go. You can leave this very general (simply “a place you like to go”) or ask for more specific information (in the example in Session 5, I will ask students to upload images of a place they like to go that you can walk to from our school. You could also ask them for places they like to go in summer, or places they would like to go, perhaps a place they would like to go to speak the course language, or places they like to study, or places they like to go to have fun.)
Continue to greet the students in English, review where to put their things, etc., remind them briefly that in this class we will be communicating a good deal in the language and they need to work together to focus and listen because that is the best way to help yourself and everyone else be successful in this class. Tell them that today is a special day. Note: you will not be following the usual daily instructional framework today, as it is a special lesson, which is why this lesson is scheduled for the third or fourth session, so that you can use the first lessons to establish the “flow” of the daily instructional framework before briefly deviating from the “standard operating procedure” in this session. Tell your students that they will first read in the language (French in the example lesson), then do a quick calendar check-in, and then you will teach them a lesson on SLA (Second Language Acquisition) in English (or the class’s other shared stronger language, if you teach advanced students who can handle this), after which they will make a mini-project to show what they learned and share with others. If you have not yet set up your Videographer, you might want to do that before you begin this lesson. If so, please see the HR Manual in the Appendices for the Videographer job description and some guidance on how to interview and hire for the student jobs. Page 147
