1. Faculty of Arts: Teaching & Learning Experience-Sharing Workshop Presentation topic: What did I do when facing these situations? Presenter: Allen Ho, English Language Teaching Unit

2. My teaching context Small class teaching (Usual) maximum class size: 20 Teaching venues: (Usually) classrooms & language / computer labs

3. Situation 1 I find it very difficult to remember students’ names.

4. What did I do? -Form (permanent) discussion groupsForm (permanent) discussion groups -Take a class picture -Practice calling unfamiliar names -Make use of CUSIS

5. Situation 2 I find it very annoying to have students joining my class at various stages of the add-drop period.

6. What did I do? -Prepare more spare copies of course outlines and handouts (for the first few lessons) -NOT to blame the students (explicitly) -NOT to verbally introduce the course again and againNOT to verbally introduce the course again and again

7. Situation 3 I am teaching many sessions of the same course (e.g. Class A, Class B & Class C) and I always forget where I stopped in the previous lesson.

8. What did I do? -Keep a record of what you plan to do and what you have done in each class

9. Situation 4 There are only a few students in the classroom in the first 10 minutes of the lesson.

10. What did I do? -Start with something very seriousStart with something very serious (e.g. assessment) -Start with something not that serious (e.g. revision) -Start the class a bit later

11. Testing your memory 1)How many focuses are there in ELTU1108? 2)How many drafts are you going to write in ELTU1108 for the academic essay? 3)How many chances of peer review are you going to have in ELTU1108?

12. Appetizer – Reading & Sharing Answer the questions related to the recent article entitled “To learn English, get over the fear of using it”.

13. Situation 5 Some of my students always fall asleep, send sms or read materials from other courses in front of me.

14. What did I do? -Draw their attention -Communicate with them (Listen to them) -Make the class more interactive

15. Q7: Mr. Johnson is ___ FBI official. 15. a16. an

16. Explanations Some abbreviations are said as individual letters while some are said as words (acronyms). Compare: an F (/e/) BI (individual letters) official a F (/f/) IFA (a word) official

17. Situation 6 It seems that some of the class activities are not as well-received as expected.

18. -Keep a little teaching log -Be willing to make changes

20. Situation 7 I do not want to wait until the official student evaluation practice to collect feedback from students.

21. -Hold informal student evaluation practicesHold informal student evaluation practices

22. Situation 8 I want to build up friendship with my students.

23. -Leave them my msn contact -Leave them my Facebook contact

24. My mottos Enthusiasm + Love + Technique = Unity with students & Unlimited possibilities in my teaching career Be generous to share, be humble to learn!