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From Class to Community: A collection of cooperative activities for the ELT classroom
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Commencer à lire- Éditeur:
- Mari Varsányi
- Sortie:
- Sep 18, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781310309366
- Format:
- Livre
Description
From Class to Community is an unconventional English Language Teaching book for teachers who care. It looks beyond the traditional ELT class, and beyond the student as a language learner. By using the lively activities presented in this book, you can help your students become more cooperative, aware and open-minded, while improving their English.
From Class to Community contains:
–20 classroom-tested activities
–clear, step-by-step instructions
–reflection questions
–follow-up ideas
–useful tips
–headings that help you navigate through the book with ease
–lovely pictures that illustrate the instructions
Let From Class to Community broaden your perception of ELT lessons and take you on a cooperative journey!
Informations sur le livre
From Class to Community: A collection of cooperative activities for the ELT classroom
Description
From Class to Community is an unconventional English Language Teaching book for teachers who care. It looks beyond the traditional ELT class, and beyond the student as a language learner. By using the lively activities presented in this book, you can help your students become more cooperative, aware and open-minded, while improving their English.
From Class to Community contains:
–20 classroom-tested activities
–clear, step-by-step instructions
–reflection questions
–follow-up ideas
–useful tips
–headings that help you navigate through the book with ease
–lovely pictures that illustrate the instructions
Let From Class to Community broaden your perception of ELT lessons and take you on a cooperative journey!
- Éditeur:
- Mari Varsányi
- Sortie:
- Sep 18, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781310309366
- Format:
- Livre
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From Class to Community - Mari Varsányi
From Class to Community
A collection of cooperative activities for the ELT classroom
By Mari Varsányi
A Round publication
http://www.the-round.com
© 2015 Mari Varsányi
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author. Please contact us at http://www.the-round.com for more information.
Cover design by Luke Meddings
Illustration by Anna Láng
Edited by Gemma Briggs
"In union there is strength"
- Aesop
Table of Contents
Introduction
Colorful Sentences
Scrambled Sentences with a Pinch of Democracy
Blind Date
Sherlock, Dr. Watson and the Postman
Lining Up
1-2-3-4-5
What are They Wearing?
One-Word-at-a-Time Fairy Tale
The ABC Fairy Tale
Yes, But...
Yes, And...
Listening with Open Ears
Same, Same, but Different
Our Story
Tourists and Tour Guides
Opinionated Corners
Carousel
Spinning Sentences
Your Hand
The World through My Window
Acknowledgements
Introduction
If I asked you to define what a class is, what would you say? How would you like your class to function and how do you perceive your role as a teacher within it? Dictionaries define class
along the lines of, A group of students who meet regularly to be taught a subject or activity
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/class). Notice the passive structure of to be taught
. It conjures up an image of a conveyor belt, with students being transported into the classroom, knowledge being poured into their heads, and the students then being shipped off. Hardly a positive way of picturing our class.
My idea of a class comes much closer to the concept and definition of community
. Here the dictionary definitions vary, but certain words are commonly used, such as unified, sharing, interest, together, social, participation, similarity, attitudes, identity, interdependent, common, responsibilities, ownership. This time the picture we get is an active one; that of students interacting with each other, working consciously towards a common goal as a team, and taking responsibility for and ownership of their actions.
And yet, in certain respects, classes still tend to resemble the first scenario more than the second one. Students are often alienated from their class - and from school, as a whole - perceiving their time outside of school as real life
. They feel little ownership of their learning, and experience the learning process as passive subjects rather than active participants. And, on a social level, it gets worse still: Countless students around the world suffer from bullying, mocking and other forms of rejection every day, with consequences occasionally as drastic as teenage suicides and school shootings. Not exactly the picture of a happy community.
This may well be true, but what can I do?
, you may wonder. That's the education system / the curriculum / the expectation of my school. It's outside of my control. I'm just a language teacher.
But is that so? Actually, we hold a tremendous amount of power to influence how students behave and feel in our class. It is not beyond us at all.
Think for a moment: Do we ever say we want to prepare our students for life
and then teach them the Present Perfect? Do we ever claim we want to develop our students’ communicative skills and then teach them the WH- questions? Not that these are unimportant, but aren’t we missing the point? How can we expect our students to become effective communicators in international contexts if they are unwilling to cooperate with their own classmates? How can we talk about preparing them for life
if we implicitly teach them not to put effort into learning unless
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