miriam sheen cuba- unt workshop : teaching techniques to empower students’ learning
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TRUJILLO WORKSSHOP: DEALING WITH NEW CHALLENGES IN FLTL 2011- -"TEACHING TECHNIQUES TO EMPOWER STUDENTS’ LEARNING" Are you ready to teach in the new century?Twenty first century education is demanding, it breaks the pattern; it is flexible, innovative, challenging and difficult. It happens in context and its main aim is to captivate every student’s interests. So, What does teaching encounter? How can students get the most of their classes? Teaching is not planning activities in terms of what the teacher will be doing in class, but in terms of what the students will be able to do with the new material once it is presented and internalized. Teaching is a decision-making process in which the teacher considers a variety of options to facilitate the learning process. It is a dynamic bond between individual learners and the teacher. This workshop will provide easy techniques that teachers can use to observe activities and content from the perspective of student learning in order to have students actively involved in their learning process and engaged with the lesson material.TRANSCRIPT
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRUJILLOFACULTAD DE EDUCACION Y CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN
IX SEMINAR OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
FEBRUARY 19, 2011Mg. Norah Andrade ArceMg. Miriam Sheen Cuba Especialista en Tecnología Educativa
GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER
Talk to the person sitting next to you.
Ask him / her the questions you will see next for 2 minutes.
Find another partner and tell him / her about the person you interviewed.
WHAT IS
YOUR NAME
?
WHO GAVE YOU YOUR
NAME?
DO YOU LIKE IT? WHY OR
WHY NOT?
DO YOU HAVE A
NICKNAME? WHAT IS IT?
THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORKSHOPIS TO …
Analyze learning strategies
Discuss about the importance of using critical
thinking activities
Practice using different learning strategies to
empower students’ learning
How has education changed in the last ten years?
THINK - PAIR - SHARE
Discuss with your partner, and be ready to report.
What do you think education will be like in the future?
Discuss with a different partner, and Report to the
group.
THINK - PAIR - SHARE
What do you understand for learning strategies?
Discuss with a different partner, and Report to the group.
Learning strategies are what learners can do consciously.
• Automatically use strategies that reflect their basic
learning style
• With practice and direction they can learn to apply
strategies
• Learn to adapt strategies accordingly to different
learning tasks
What should a learning strategy include?
Discuss with a partner, and Report to the group.
Learning strategy instruction includes:
• Demonstrating when a given strategy might
be useful
• How to use it
• How to evaluate its usefulness
• How to transfer the strategy to other related
tasks and situations
Why is it important to develop critical thinking skills?
Discuss with your partner, and Report to the group.
Learning strategy are important because they:
• Provide ample opportunities for students to use them,
and they should be taught through explicit instruction.
• Give consistent use of scaffolding techniques
throughout the lesson.
• Use a variety of question types, including those that
promote higher order thinking skills – HOTS.
IGH
RDER
HINKING
KILLS
The purpose of critical thinking is to achieve, evaluate view points, and solve problems.
Since all three areas involve the asking of questions, we can say that critical thinking is the questioning or inquiry we engage in when we
seek to understand, evaluate, or resolve.
What is the purpose of Critical Thinking?
The Five Minds of the Future
• Provide ample opportunities for students to use them, and they should be taught through explicit instruction.
• Give consistent use of scaffolding techniques throughout the lesson.
• Use a variety of question types, including those that promote higher level thinking skills – HOTS. Howard Gardner
There are 5 Stations.You are going to visit each
one for 10 minutes and move on to the next station
STATION 1BOARD GAME
STATION 2SPELLING
BEE
STATION 3“FIVE”
READING
STATION 4CREATE A
POEM, PHRASE
STATION 5NARRATE A
STORY
REFLECTION
• How did you feel when working on the tasks?
• Do you think you could use these activities with your
students ?
• What helped you do the activities?
• What hindered (made it difficult) you?
CONCLUSIONSThe 21st Century brings new challenges since we are facing the era of technology and multitasking; therefore,
• Learning and teaching means developing cognitive competences; such as, observe, understand, analyze, evaluate, resolve.
• The teacher’s goal is to consciously teach students those capacities through meaningful activities, so they can transfer them to other new situations in real life.
• The new role of the teacher is to help students become independent learners to be able to be competent in this new era.
