REaChing for the stars
Empowering English Language Learners
This year is a busy one! With seven different classes and five textbook free curricula, it's bound to be exciting. As always, I make getting to know my students my number one priority. Learning English is a great challenge, and it's important that all of my students know I value the effort they will make in my class and more importantly the goal of our time together, which is communication. I felt that this year got off to a particularly great start. This was in part due to the time I spent planning activities, but also to my fantastic students and a bit of help from a small rubber chicken. It's amazing what a little laughter can do! These are some of my favorite beginning of the year activities:
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Sarah
4/30/2014 11:55:47 am
Thanks Norbert. Remember, most of my students are male and engineering majors...I'm sure you can think of something! Get them to "line up" logically via some mathematical problem or other, give them part of a math problem and have them work out how they need to put it together using only gesture and eye contact, ask them "if they were a number, what number would they be and why?". There are lots of simple ways to tweak content to make it more interactive and fun. I'm sure there are some great, short, "warm-up" challenges in your field, aren't there?
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