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20 April 2014
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Welcome to the blog for the Brighton Education Group & Melaka Politeknik Workshop to be held on 6th & 7th of May. We are going to be using this extensively during the workshop which we hope you will enjoy.
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ReplyDeleteReading activities are always seen as very boring and less preferred modalities among others. However, reading skills are crucial and essential for students to process various information. In today’s lesson, as a group we learned that reading activities should be more than just reading for information. There are many strategies that can be used to connect learners to the activities they are engaged in. These related activities enable learners to construct the knowledge about a particular topic in a more meaningful manner. For example, when learners are allowed to discuss and share their views of what they have read, it helps them to create a better learning experience and store the knowledge gained in a more meaningful way. Moreover, personally I find that using audio-visual materials as readings texts prompt leaners to be more active and using multi-modal approach (listen, speak, read, and write) in order to process the information. Therefore, it creates more opportunities for learners to make the learning process more meaningful when they personalize they knowledge gathered. I find that using these audio-visual texts for teaching reading skills helps the students to experience better moments of possibility in learning by maximizing multi-modalities effectively. However, this reading technique needs to be introduced subtly as it involves more than information gathering skills and high-communicative skills. The criticality in viewing the materials is essential, thus, learners must be honed in the way they could see, view, think, argue and respond toward a specific material or topic.
ReplyDeleteI find that the technique to teach process and procedures as suggested by the speaker today is very interesting and appealing. Usually, as a teacher I find my students have limited vocabulary to succeed with the activities planned. By eliciting related vocabulary to the task, it helps them to perform better and connect with the context/situation effectively. I am so going to use the technique when I am teaching my own students in the future.
ReplyDeleteCharts and graphs have always been my favourite topic to teach. I find it is exciting and to a certain extent challenging. I tried many ways to ensure my students to understand and fully engaged in how they can describe the charts and graphs given to them critically, however, honestly, I faced a lot of hurdles in making them to grab what I try to convey. In today’s lessons I learned that there are more systematic approach to guide students to see the differences, variations and effectively report the data using some simple techniques. I am so excited to incorporate these techniques when I will be teaching soon. Thank you Sam for guiding us. I too gain some new clarifications which are more realistic in using the language expressions to almost native-like standard in reporting from charts and graphs.
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DeleteThis session has given me some new ideas to be carried out in a more systematic and structured way....
The techniques and activities used to teach job hunting are interesting and very student-cantered. I personally find that the input given adds my knowledge on job hunting especially the activities for job interview. Perhaps, the job interview session could be recorded and showed to other using projector to discuss on improvement and other related matters. I enjoyed the session.
ReplyDeleteOverall, I find that this course has allowed me to consider new approaches and techniques. It is good for us to clarify with native speakers on certain words and language use. I feel really happy that the clarification is very relevant and make sense. I hope more courses like this will be organized with more critical treatment of content. I love challenges. Bravo to Ms Marina and team for organizing such an exciting course and hope to attend more of such courses in the future.
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