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CREATIVE AND INDEPENDENT LEARNING THROUGH HOMEWORKEngaging students outside the classroom
Puchan Liao 廖朴婵[email protected]
The least efficient homework I found with my students
1. Copy Chinese characters according to stroke orders
2. Translate from English into Chinese or vice versa
3. Reading/listening/grammar exercises
4. *Writing a short essay or a paragraph
How should we teach?
---- Watkins, C. et. al. (2002). ‘Effective Learning’ NSIN Research Matters 17 (Summer)
Lesson hours for Mandarin in the secondary schools in the UK
• 1 - 2 hours per week in KS3
• 2 - 3 hours per week in KS4
• 5 - 6 hours per week in KS5
My current school: limited learning time in class• Non-selective, boys’ school• Class size: 28-32• IT facilities: require update
Challenges for teachers:• Behaviour management• Short attention span• Homework problem• Lack of motivation
Ideal language homework
• Have a balance in the 4 skills– listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• Differentiated tasks
• Active learning
• Opportunities for students to show their creativity
• Developing students’ independent learning skills
My plan
Attract interests
Encourage lower achievers
Find role models
Form habits
Train skills
Shape the culture
Mandarin Homework Menu
Year 8 – In the Restaurant
Year 8 – Weather
Year 8 – Family
Group work
Design a homework menu for one of the following GCSE topics:
Environment
Poverty/homelessness
Charity/voluntary work
Students’ work
Students’ feedback on the homework menu
How much have they enjoyed working from the HW menu?
How much the menu has helped them learn/consolidate Mandarin?
Would they like to continue to receive homework like this?
HOW TO ADAPT THIS MENU IN DAILY TEACHING AND
CLASS MANAGEMENT?
Behaviour and Effort BingoLink three boxes in a row– one House PointComplete all the tasks to get a prize!
Have all stationaries (black pen, Mandarin book, glue stick,) x 3
Volunteer an answer 3 times in a lesson
Work on the starter worksheet in silence once sitting down x 3
Hand in homework on time x 3
Don’t get your name under the sad face x3
Complete DIRT for homework and assessments
Complete anextension task withoutbeing asked
Complete extra homework
Come to the Chinese club X3
Encouraging form time contributions
GCSE- Making sentences(Use the fewest sentences to score the highest.)
GUIDED PROJECTS AT GCSE LEVELS
Provide clear guidance and assessment criteriaHow to efficiently work in a group?
– Train students to divide work and take responsibility
Follow GCSE marking criteria:
– Communication and content
– Linguistic knowledge of Language
– Accuracy
Examples (Year 9 projects)
1. Film project: My school
2. Magazine project: Film
3. Listening recording project: Living environment
https://padlet.com/puchanliao/4q333j1kup9r
4. Chinese culture project
https://padlet.com/puchanliao/crvoactgg6no
授人以鱼不如授人以渔。
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
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