1. REFLECTIONS
September 6, 2012

2. Planning Materials and Activities
• Consider using materials to develop speaking
skills when you plan
• Using language is about communication
• Through realia, concrete materials, learners
will produce the language
• Speaking is about sharing thoughts,
knowledge and feelings
• Activities are evidence of what learners will be
able to produce with or without you

3. Nursery Initial Education

4. Pre-Kinder Initial Education

5. Kinder Initial Education

6. First General Basic Education

7. Learning Strategies
• Show 20 activities you{ve done so far that are
transferrable to other subjects
• Mention 5 stories you’ve read to your class,
did you use the report sheet to show evidence
of comprehension?
• Demosntrate 5 examples of interactive
writing, where by pictograms/drawings
students interact orally with each other rather
than the teacher

8. Feedback
• When do you feel there is no value in
learning?
• When do you feel a lack of direction?
• How do you encourage yourself to take risks
in teaching?
• How do you become more creative in
teaching?

9. Fluency
• Create 2 of each: 2 Open-ended tasks and 2
closed tasks
– where you only need your body
– where you only use the words to a song
• List 20 or more chinks of language your students
produce NOW
• Share 10 poems you have your students recite. If
you don’t create them now.
• Share 10 songs you use during the week. If you
don’t create/design/search for them now.

10. Language Record
• Explain how you keep a language record
visible to children in your classroom other
than the following
– E.g. magic words
– Chunks of language
– Rhymes
– Stories
– Poems

11. Meta-Cognitive Strategy
• Give 3 examples of each:
• How do you:
– Plan?
– Evaluate?
– Monitor?
• Language use?

12. Cognitive and Social Strategies
• Give 3 examples of:
– How students “do the learning”
– How students socialize in Englsih?
– How students interact among themselves in
English?

13. Inductive Grammar
• Give 5 examples of how you involve you
students and increase motivation in
understanding English.
• Give 5 examples of how you involve your
students as thinking people

14. Global Understanding
• Write a list of all the magic words
• Form 50 chunks of language among them

15. Grammar
• Demosntrate how to handle and understand
grammatical rules ORALLY
• How do you produce “correct” meaningful
English. Give 4 examples.

16. Help Yourself
• Share 10 ludic exercises you have used this
week in circle time, park, psychomotricity and
lunch time
• Share 20 autonomy phrases your students
understand and/or produce NOW. If not,
complete 20 for future classes.

17. HOMEWORK
• Explain how students absorb, process and
practice English in class and at home. Share 5
examples.
• Share 10 activities where students were
involved between lessons and maintained
their commitment to learning English.

18. Learning is about being able to …..