Sally Trowbridge workshop

Rokus Klett ELT Conference 2015 Collaborative learning and classroom management Sally Trowbridge

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Background

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Menu • Classroom activities • How can you adapt these activities to your teaching situation?

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Change places!

Talk to a partner about your teaching situations: What age groups do you teach?

Where do you teach?

Can you describe your school and classroom?

How long have you been teaching?

What is the biggest challenge for you with your class or classes?

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Change places!

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Ten topics

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Dictogloss • The teacher reads a short text to the students, who just listen. The teacher reads the text again, and the learners take notes. Then in groups they recreate the text from their notes.

• To check the groups’ texts, volunteers can write the text on the board sentence by sentence while their classmates make any necessary corrections. Any versions of the original text if the language is correct.

• For lower levels you can help students by giving them the text with words missing and they have to fill the gaps. (repeat this writing at end of course)

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Writing on the wall

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Creative problem solving

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Creative problem solving Which problems are these inventions designed to solve?

http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/lesson-share/lesson-sharearchive/speaking/speaking-inventions/145171.article

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Creative problem solving - Chindogu

http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/lesson-share/lesson-sharearchive/speaking/speaking-inventions/145171.article

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Global community

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/magazine/books/15-minute-reading-challenge

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Global community

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/learnenglish-teens-magazine-section

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Global community

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-videos/kittys-dream-job

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Learner diary

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/learnenglish-teens-learner-diary

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Sentence auction

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Cut up sentences

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Back to the board

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Back to the board

classroom

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Back to the board

learner-centred

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Back to the board

collaborative

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Back to the board

motivated

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Back to the board

students

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Activities • • • • • • • • • •

Change places 10 topics Dictogloss Writing on the wall Creative problem solving Global community Learner diary Sentence auction Cut up sentences Back to the board

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Adapting activities 1) Find a group.

2) Which activities from today’s workshop have you used in class?

3) Which activities from today’s workshop would you like to use in class?

4) How do you need to change these activities for your specific students?

5) Can you explain any other activities that you have used where students work collaboratively?

6) Make some notes and prepare to talk about your ideas to the group. (Decide who will organise ideas, write, report to the group.)

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Thanks!

sally.trowbridge@britishcouncil.es

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