Learning to Teach Better

Just reposting from the discussion section hopefully put together shorter with some tips. As per Penny’s advice I did the recall and share drill with my students with a series of words from the superlatives and comparative adjectives. I also added her advice of trying to teach different levels by having them choose three words from the list of words and making three personally true sentences about them or their friend. If they could do 3 sentences quickly then I had them take the adjective and change it into another that was not from the list. Similar tip from Penny that I have done before in other classes is to Dictate the instructions to the students and have them write them out before doing the exercise. This allows the ones who can do it easily to move onto the activity while letting me see who needs more help and make the instructions be a teaching tool at the same time. Video-taping classes is one of the best things teachers can do to help improve our teaching. I think that we...

I tried out the show and recall activity with a list of superlative and comparative adjectives in a number of forms as a short review. It went maybe too well as most of the kids were able to remember almost all. Then I had them take three of the words from the list and make three true sentences about themselves or a friend. Taking Penny's advice to have them do as much as they can, any students who finished quickly I had them change the adjective to one not from the list. It took about 12 minutes but was well worth it in how almost all the kids were working throughout the whole time. I hope to get some pictures from the kids notebooks after the weekend when I have them for two hours on Monday.

Hi all! I am looking forward to another great course from iTDi. I work in Osaka, Japan at a private high school.