Teaching Speaking
Teaching Reading
Teaching Listening & Culture
Classroom Management
100

What are the three ‘while reading’ tasks that we do in building reading strategies?

Skimming

Scanning

Comprehension

100

What is classroom management?

  • Effective discipline

  • Being prepared for class

  • Motivating your students

  • Providing a safe, comfortable learning environment

  • Building your students’ self-esteem

  • Being creative and imaginative in daily lessons

200

What are the benefits of Teacher Talk Time?

  1. Presenting, Checking, Modeling

  2. Providing language input

  3. Giving instructions/setting up activities

  4. Establishing rapport

200

DAILY DOUBLE!

What is the purpose of skimming and what might you ask students after skimming?

To confirm the prediction and get an overall idea of the story

E.g. “What do you think the story is about?”

200

Name at least 3 features of listening


  • A receptive skill

  • A problem-solving activity

  • Listener draws inferences to come to a conclusion

  • A few understood items can create global understanding

  • The discourse is often unplanned

  • Only one opportunity to receive the message

200

What are 4 reasons students might misbehave and how can you deal with it?

Power (student feels important when they are in control): give the student a different task.


Revenge (student feels disliked): Avoid retaliation, and help the child.


Inadequacy (student feels they cannot do it): Encourage the student.


Attention (student wants to be noticed): Don’t feed into it.

300

How often should the teacher talk during the independent work phase?

Students do most of the talking

Teacher 10%, Students 90%

300

What information is sought after with scanning questions?

Give TWO example questions.

A very specific piece of information like names, places, times, and dates

300

DAILY DOUBLE!

What is a call-and-response technique? Give 3 examples.

Excellent!

400

Explain what a comprehension question is and give two examples

Comprehension requires learners to understand the text more deeply – they must synthesize facts based on the text.

400

Compare the characteristics of young learners with adolescents.

Young Learners

  • Naturally curious

  • View teachers as authority

  • Seek teacher approval

  • Short attention span

  • Need lots of encouragement


Adolescents

  • Value peer approval

  • Peer pressure can affect students

  • Build on prior experiences

500

How do we advise incorporating grammar into a lesson and what is an example of a grammar point that is suitable for beginners?

We incorporate grammar indirectly as opposed to making it the primary topic. We incorporate grammar subtly so students can learn & pick up on the subtle nuances of grammar and model our speech.


Beginners – tenses (past/present/future)

500

What are the benefits and challenges of teaching reading? 

Name at least two of each.

Benefits

  • A good model for language

  • Students can mirror sentence structure

  • Students learn punctuation & tonality

  • Learned vocabulary is put into context

  • New vocabulary is learned through context

  • Students can work at their own pace

Challenges

  • Reading is normally something we do alone

  • Tough for students to concentrate

  • Might have a wide spectrum of skills in one class

500

Name at least three ways to find out what your students are interested in.

  • Introductory lessons (likes/don’t likes)

  • Observe the types of things they bring to school

  • Student interest survey

500

What are 3 examples of proactive and 3 examples of reactive classroom management?

Proactive

  • Learn student names

  • Make connections

  • Establish rules

  • Attainable goals

  • Interesting lessons

  • Understand school policies


Reactive

  • Call out students' names

  • Walk towards student

  • Give student a choice

  • Stop talking & make eye contact (aka “The Stare”)