EFL Best Practices - Daily Activities

July 25 to August 2, 2006 - Instructor: Mark Fettke
Classroom: Room – MWF Education 301, 2-3:50; TT Bexel 102, 2-3:20                    

 

Monday 7/24

Tuesday 7/25

Wednesday 7/26

Thursday 7/27

Friday 7/28

10-11:50

Leadership

Teambuilding, Values

 

2-3:50 Sharing my story:

Education and the Access Program in my country

 

9:30-10:50 Leadership

Creativity, Styles

 

2-3:20 EFL Best Practices

1.  Positive Expectations:

"What's in a Name?"

2.  Class Management - "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"  Routines (interaction routines), Discipline, Goal Setting

3. Participant Sharing & Planning –(Hess, 4.3, 4.21, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.12)

 

Assignments – prepare 2 presentations

1. presentation on your culture

2.  presentation on EFL best practices you learned here with any culture

 

 

 

2-3:50 EFL Best Practices

Lesson Mastery:

1. Cooperative Learning – P.I.E.S

"Stand and Deliver," Corners, Line ups, Agreement Circles, Numbered Heads, Team Statements, Journal Reflection, Discussion w/Paraphrase passport

2. Participant Sharing & Planning, (Hess, Chapter 5)

 

 

 

 

 

2-3:20 EFL Best Practices

Lesson Mastery:

1. Learning Styles, Learning Strategies

"How are pizza and a cell phone alike (similar)?"  Brain connections - Research learning styles, primary styles – (Hess, Chapter 6)

2. Error Correction and Interlanguage – students present Brown 67-8 as though group consists of solely auditory learners. (Hess, Chapter 4 – feedback)

3. Participant Sharing & Planning

 

 

 

 

 

2-3:30 Bi-lingual classrooms:

-  Jerry Bryan and Jan Byers

Monday 7/31

 Tuesday 8/1

Wednesday 8/2

Thursday 8/3

Friday 8/4

 

 

2-3:50 Preparing Culture & or Best Practices Presentations

 

7-8:30pm

Presentations to Community about their countries

 

 

2-3:20 EFL Best Practices

Lesson Mastery:

1. Vocabulary, listening and speaking development

 

2. Participant Sharing & Planning

 

 

2-3:20 EFL Best Practices

Lesson Mastery:

1. Content based instruction - Environmental statistics and facts Brown 237  (Hess, Chapter 2, 6 & 7)

 

2. Task based instruction – Pragmatics, real world tasks, Brown 243, Interview to writing projects

 

3. Participant Sharing & Planning

 

 

 

2-3:20 EFL Best Practices Presentations given

 

 

2-3:50 EFL Best Practices Presentations given Program Evaluation

 

 

 

P LEARNING STRATEGIES  P LEARNING STYLES  P ERROR CORRECTION AND INTERLANGUAGE  P COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING – Cooperative learning  P VOCABULARY  P TEACHING LARGE MULTI-LEVEL CLASSROOMS – positive expectations, rituals, routines, goal setting  P CONTENT AND TASK BASED CURRICULUM