Student Centric Classrooms!

This lecture will look at both inductive learning strategies and also how to use task based learning in your classroom. Both approaches foster student participation and student centered learning.

We will look at what makes an inductive lesson. Further, using activities from Andrew Finch's book "Tasks for the High School textbook", we will design and share lessons based on his excellent ideas (Andrew is a professor of education at Kyungpook Nat. University in Daegu).

Here are the lecture readings and handouts....You will also have to make one reflective entry either here or on paper/journal. Please take a moment to look at some of these videos which describe many of the activities in the above mentioned resource book of Andrew Finch. I'll be showing a few in the lecture....

Activities to help teach the H.S. textbook!

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What is Task based and communicative learning.doc, 137 KB
active learning.pdf, 502 KB
High School Tasks to Supplement the Textbook.pdf, 9.6 MB

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on June 11, 2008 at 10:12am

The textbook above is NOT a reading! Sorry, my mistake, this article also should be included.

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Student Collaboration in the ESL.doc, 32 KB

Permalink Reply by ddeubel on June 17, 2008 at 9:01pm

Some more materials of interest, more activities to compliment the high school text book

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taskbased textbook supplementation.ppt, 1.6 MB
High School Supplementary Activities.pdf, 986 KB
co operative learning.ppt, 180 KB

Permalink Reply by ddeubel on June 17, 2008 at 9:19pm

Here is the main presentation about inductive learning and also learning about our roles..

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on June 19, 2008 at 2:02am

here are the ppts.

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English for Everyone Elementary.zip, 34 MB

Permalink Reply by ddeubel on June 19, 2008 at 2:36am

more ppts and activities

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English for Everyone VOCABULARY.zip, 42.6 MB
Travel Talk.ppt, 160 KB
NOTliketheotherthings.ppt, 2.3 MB

Permalink Reply by ddeubel on June 19, 2008 at 7:00am

Find the powerpoints -- Super Vocabulary, Everyday English and English for everyone here!

Further, here is the ppt that I used in today's lecture.

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on March 11, 2009 at 6:37pm

Here are a few more things from the workshop. It was a pleasure meeting you all and I applaud your enthusiasm and energy. Good luck with the rest of the course!

David

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