1. Icebreaker

3. Communicative Tasks Authentic, real-world Unpredictable
Involve higher-thinking skills
Get students talking

4. Objective: Students will role-play ordering food in a restaurant.
It’s ok to read through a dialogue as an example.
But then FORGET the dialogue.
Why not set up a table in the classroom? Hire a student to be the waiter, and find some willing customers.

5. Objective: Students will tell a classmate how to get to a place in their community.

6. Objective: Students will teach other students in the class how to do something.

7. More ideas for tasks….
Short experiences giving basic personal information.
Making plans with friends or an appointment.
Buying something.
Visiting the doctor’s office.
Giving advice.
Interviews to gain information.
Making reservations.

8. Group Work In your team create three communicative tasks.
Use content from the curriculum guide.
Prepare to share your tasks.

10. What does your classroom look like?

11. The right start… Greet your students at the door.
Learn each and every name.

12. Walk around the room! Don’t stay in one place during the lesson.
Move around the room to offer support to students.
This helps reduce discipline problems.

13. Good teaching is ¼ preparation and ¾ theater.
Be Enthusiastic!
If you’re not interested, why should your students be?
Good teaching is ¼ preparation and ¾ theater.
-James Anthony Froude

14. Use positive reinforcement.
Catch your students being good.
Write positive
classroom rules.
Rules
Use quiet voices when doing group work.

15. Challenge your students.
Present activities that are age and level appropriate.
Don’t beat a dead horse.
Plan for multiple activities.
Don’t allow quick workers to be idle.
Try more tasks and less talk!

16. Think about rearranging your classroom.

17. Rewards??
Praise students individually for good work, serious effort and on task behavior.
Kids like stickers and ink
stamps on their papers.
Work as a class towards a goal such as a night without homework, a soccer game, a movie, or games instead of instruction.

18. What would you do? Come up with suggestions for the teacher described.
In your team, read and discuss the assigned case study.
Come up with suggestions for the teacher described.
Prepare to share.

19. Wrap up… Questions / Thoughts you’d like to share.
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