NILE STC DIARY 30th June 2015

NILE STC DIARY

Tuesday 30th June 2015

USING DRAWING IN EFL CLASS > MINIBOARDS

• To support EFL teaching
• To enhance summarising skills
• To find out how ss are actually feeling

COMPARING BRITISH AND SPANISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

More differences than similarities:

•  Types of schools academies, faith schools, state funded schools
•  Curriculum for sexual and relationship education
•   OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) is an external office independent from LEA

TPR READING > ss walk around the class to gather information, contrasting and comparing and then they share their conclusions with the whole class.

TOUR TRIALS > GUIDELINES AND ROUTES

SHORT STORIES (II)

EXPLORING TEEN ISSUES:

• Teen pregnancy
• Bullying
• Social networks misuse
• Eating disorders

IDEA from Claudia’s school: gay-straight alliance: to raise awareness towards gender respect

READING A WHOLE STORY WITH HOTS

•  Changing perspective: different points of view from each character
•   Hypothetical thinking: formulating questions : what would have happened if…?
•   Evaluating: debate on charactre’s choices and decisions and their consequences, different outcomes

KEY WORDS FOR BLOOM’S TAXONOMY LEVELS & REVISION WITH UPGRADE

• New level: creation (training for unexpected future)
• Acting out and experiencing character’s feelings
• Introducing new characters and subplots

GENRES

•  Realistic contemporary fiction
• Science fiction

MORE EFFECTIVE TEAM WORK> assigning roles to members:

• Monitor > balanced participation
• Timer
• Task controller > focus on set objectives
• Reporter or spokeperson
• Notetaker or scribe
• Language assistant