making it personal means making it meaningful liam tyler macmillan english ipt russia

Making it personal means making it meaningfulLiam Tyler

Macmillan English

IPT Russia

What’s the difference?

Why do we continue to….

• give students boring, impersonal, irrelevant tasks?

• try to drill and train students?

• try to get students to store and retrieve impossible amounts of information?

Let’s make teaching more personal, more human!

Personalising learning

1. What is personalised learning?

2. Why personalise learning?

3. What does personalising learning involve?

4. Examples of personalised activities and resources: vocabulary, grammar and speaking.

1. What is personalised

learning?

Personalised learning is…..• asking personal questions about learners: salary; age;

relationships.• taking into account learning styles and approaches.• allowing learners complete control over what goes on in

class.• becoming our students’ best friends. • finding out about learner opinions and interests.

• putting the learner at the centre of the learning process.

Personalised learning…..

• takes into account prior learning and experience.• involves finding out about learners.• gives students ‘choice’ and ‘voice’. • is about localisation and humanisation.

• involves learner-centred activities and tasks.

2. Why should we personalise learning?

Why should we personalise learning?

• it’s more M E A N I N G F U L• it’s more R E L E V A N T• it’s more E N G A G I N G• it’s more M O T I V A T I N G • it’ s more R E S P O N S I V E• it’s more C H A L L E N G I N G

• it’s more H U M A N!

3. What does personalised learning

involve?

“Personalised learning is more than a portfolio of effective teaching and learning strategies focused on the

individual; it is primarily about an ethics and culture.”

UK National College for

School Leadership

Personalised learning permeates all aspects

of the teaching process …..

• Learner needs and interests

• Learner styles

• Lesson planning

4. Personalised activities and materials

Many coursebooks have shortcomings in the areas of…

• Personalisation

• Localisation

• Humanisation

“Coursebooks should be designed to facilitate

personalisation.”

Personalising vocabulary and

grammar

• An off the cuff remark• To buckle down• As bright as a button• To collar someone• To tighten one’s belt• To wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

Personalising vocabulary

• Personalisation

• Student choice

Personalisation and localisation

Personalising speaking

Rob

Zurich

28.08.2012

BA

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You ask the questions!

• Who……?

• Where…….?

• When…….?

• What……..?

www.insideout.net/new

New Inside Out series

A renewed commitment to meaningful presentation, meaningful practice and meaningful communication.

Ten reasons why teachers

like New Inside Out 1. Subjects that matter to

students

2. Making it personal means making it meaningful

3. Teachable for teachers

4. Varies methods create vitality

5. Activities that get people talking

6. Practice makes perfect

7. Giving students skills to be self-sufficient

8. Building a better every day vocabulary

9. Real life grammar for real life English

10. Success is guaranteed

The case for personalisation is strong!

• Personalising lessons: makes them more engaging, stimulating, relevant and human!

• Think about the learners ate all stages, including the planning process.

• Make a real effort to get to know your students: interests, learning styles, needs.

• Use New Inside Out for personalised, localised, and

meaningful practice tasks.