Action Oriented Approach Elements
What is the role of the learner in the AOA?
The learner is view as an agent/performer of communication with intercultural awareness skills.
Mention the main principle in the AOA?
The students are social agents that use the target language to perform specific actions in real life contexts meaningfully.
Mention the three Pilars of learning presented in the planning template.
Learning to know
Learning to do
Learning to be and live in community
What complex task is carried out in weeks 5 and 6 of the plan?
The integrated mini-project.
What are some learners' skills in AOA?
Autonomous, works cooperatively, interacts with others, investigates and solves problems using the tools at his/her disposal.
Teachers combined these two approaches to better cope the goals of the new English curriculum, what are those approaches?
Action Oriented Approach and Task Based Approach.
What is the enduring understanding for?
It is a big idea to guide the teacher that give importance and meaning to a set of curriculum expectations and have a lasting value for learners, beyond the classroom
How many can do descriptors can be developed through the week?
Three or four can do descriptors combining oral and written production with oral and written comprehension.
Mention examples of oral and written authentic resources in AOA.
business cards, bus tickets, newspaper articles, book excerpts, wikis, bus schedules, city maps, bulletin boards, voice messages, and announcements.
Is it a requirement to use ICT's in the AOA? Why?
ICT's become an important tool to create meaningful learning experiences.
What learning pilar does allow learners to learn about grammar and sentence frames, Vocabulary, and Phonetic Awareness/Phonology?
Learning to know
What time does the teacher share the enduring understanding?
At the beginning of each unit to connect students with the core ideas that have lasting value beyond the classroom.
Describe how the learning environment must be in the AOA?
Real-world contexts
collaborative
stimulating
mediated by ICTs.
Any purposeful action considered by an individual as necessary in order to achieve a given result in the context of a problem to be solved. This is definition of _________.
Task
What is the learning pillar that includes Psycho-social, Sociocultural, Social Language, Idioms, and Quotes?
Learning to be and live in community
How does teachers begin the each unit, theme and lesson?
Teachers start each theme of a unit’s scenario and lesson with a warm-up activity. Then, they share with the learners the essential question and the learning goals/expected outcome for that day or week.
Mention four important roles of teachers in the AOA?
Facilitator, coach, resource person, guide, advisor, and observer.
Helps the learner become autonomous and be successful in the completion of the task.
Provides effective feedback in the process of learning.
Shows expert role but shares this responsibility with the learner.
What is the purpose of teaching vocabulary, syntax, cohesive forms, and phonology in the AOA?
Their purpose is facilitating communication
What is the part of the lesson that addresses the Learner’s ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds?
Phonological/phonemic awareness
To what Speaking Skill do organizing, rehearsing and interacting mediation sequence belong to?
Spoken Interaction Skill