суббота, 26 сентября 2015 г.

Комбинированное обучение навыкам и умениям по английскому языку. 
Combination of teaching of Language skills, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing; Receptive and Productive skills. 
British Council. Teacher Development Summer School.
August 16th-21st.2015.
Project work. Syzko V.S.
Pavlograd. Ukraine.

В ходе обучения английскому языку в школе я столкнулся с инте­ресными психологическими явлениями в среде детей, когда за­кономерности становления речевого механизма учащихся позволили мне объективно подойти к выделению стадий овладения языком и осуществления дифференцированного подхода в обучении школьников английскому языку. Вашему вниманию предлагается авторская статья по данному вопросу:
«Осуществление индивидуального подхода к учащимся в ходе обучения различными видами речевой деятельности по техноло­гии полного усвоения».
http://happyschoollife01.blogspot.com/2013/11/blog-post.html
 В настоящее время в современной школе внедряется и успешно работает предметно- языковое обучение (Content and Language Integrated Learning), направленное на формирование как учебных так и жизненных навыков и умений учащихся. 
В области изучения иностранных языков применяется стратегия (a method for obtaining a specific goal) формирования интегрированных навыков и умений изучения и  владения иностранным языком, которое предусматривает возможность учащегося быть эффективным в каждом из видов речевой деятельности.
What are learning skills?
The 21st century learning skills are often called the 4 C’s: critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating, and collaborating (критическое- аналитическое, творческое мышление, умения к общению и сотрудничеству).   These skills help students learn, and so they are vital to success in school and beyond.
Critical thinking is focused, careful analysis of something to better understand it. When people speak of “left brain” activity, they are usually referring to critical thinking. 
Creative thinking is expansive, open-ended invention and discovery of possibilities. When people speak of “right brain” activity, they most often mean creative thinking.
Communicating is the process of transferring a thought from one mind to others and, in return, receiving thoughts back. Communicating allows minds to tune to each other, thinking together.
Collaborating is working together with others to achieve a common goal. In this age of social media and crowd sourcing, collaboration is more important than ever.

 Language activities.
Combination of teaching of Language skills, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing; Receptive and Productive skills. 
The  lessons are designed to be as flexible as possible, so they can be used for different kinds of classes and teaching styles,so each lesson plan follows the same basic framework:
Lead-in: A short discussion activity designed to elicit some ideas from the students and provide an introduction to the topic. A variety of task types will be used pictures, vocabulary tasks and speaking activities.
Pre-reading task: Another topic-focused activity with a particular emphasis on vocabulary.
Reading: A number of short texts that cover the topic and one or two reading tasks. The short texts are designed to be fully exploited and digested in depth.
Working with the language: Tasks focusing on language features used in the reading texts. These will include ‘noticing’ activities which involve getting students to see how the language is used in context.
Working with vocabulary: Tasks focusing on vocabulary connected to the topic. This section includes activities designed for students to understand words in context and learn how to work out the meaning of new vocabulary items they encounter when they are reading.
Listening: A short listening task connected to the topic. These activities ask students to listen for specific details.
Speaking: A post-reading task, taking the form of a discussion or debate designed to get the students to use some of the language and vocabulary from the lesson and also give them a chance to express their personal opinions.
Project: a project section that can either be done in class or set as homework. The aim of the project is to extend the topic and either add a writing component or require the students to look at authentic sources.
1. Practice in INTEGRATED SKILLS.
2.What is language learning?  Not only acquisition of language.  Not just something we learn about. Rather, a set of skills, something we learn to do.So, students need meaningful and interactive practice in the skills, in order to learn to USE the language.
3. Language skills Listening Reading Speaking Writing Receptive skills Productive skills.
In real life, language skills never occur in isolation. In conversations, we listen and speak.  When filling in a form, we read and write. When taking notes, we listen and write. Often the use of one skill leads on naturally to another. We see a film, and we talk about it later.
4.How can you integrate skills in a lesson?  As in real life, skills are integrated with one activity leading on to another:
5.Sub-skills- Specific behaviours that language users do in order to be effective in each of the skills, e.g.skimming in reading and intonation in speaking.
6.Productive skill- a term used to refer to speaking and writing as two language skills that require the learner to produce new language.
7.Receptive skill- A term used to refer to listening and reading as two language skills that do not require the learner to produce any language.
8.Why is it useful to integrate skills? It allows for the practice of Lg. as in the real world.Integrated lessons are more satisfying for learners. They offer more variety. One single topic can be fully explored, and vocabulary can be practised and recycled. The same context or text can be used for another activity, so the teacher does not have to waste time setting up something new.
9.Practical Work.(Reflection) Get into groups of some students. Talk about your “Proficiency” or “Text & Use” lessons that you’ve had during the first week. Describe one of those lessons, stating clearly the stage, the activity and the skill developed with each activity.Once finished, share your lesson with the rest of the class.You also may do the Project.

References and Recommended reading.
1. http://thoughtfullearning.com/resources/what-are-learning-skills
2. http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/integrated-skills/topics/
3. INTEGRATED SKILLS GOWER, G. Teaching Practice.   http://www.slideshare.net/mrsyanez/integrated-skills-15892900
4.Teaching English Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching (CiSELT). Module3: Integrated skills.

понедельник, 21 сентября 2015 г.


Планирование и Проектирование урока английского языка.
Designing  lesson plans.
British Council. Teacher Development Summer School.
August 16th-21st.2015.
Project work. Syzko V.S.
Pavlograd. Ukraine.
ПИСЬМЕННОЕ ОФОРМЛЕНИЕ ПЛАНА УРОКА
Планирование урока предполагает анализ и трансформацию примерного плана в Книге для учителя, словесную формулировку выделенных задач, обсуждение процесса их построения и композиции урока. Процедура планирования завершается письменным оформлением плана урока в виде плана-схемы или развернутого плана. Для начинающего учителя предпочтительна вторая форма.Она позволяет более плотно отразить процесс формирования навыков и умений и соответственно провести более качественный контроль (или само- контроль) целесообразности планируемого.
Авторская работа Сызько В.С. по теме "Lesson Planning Observation". Документ доработан в 2015 г. (Введено понятие социо-культурные задачи обучения).В соответствии с "Загальноєвропейські Рекомендації з мовної освіти: вивчення, викладання, оцінювання." Страсбург. Ленвит Київ-2003р. https://sites.google.com/site/happyenglish05/planirovanie-uroka

Sample Lesson Plan Format

Lesson plans are generally made up of a few different key parts.  Here is a fairly standard sample of a lesson plan.
Title. Lesson title/topic.Grade.Duration: mins.
At the top of the page, you should list the grade level and class name as well as the subject that you are teaching.
Materials. Resources to be used.
Creating a list of materials helps to keep you organized. However, when you taking a class yourself or when you have to present your lesson plans to a supervisor, this section also allows the supervisor or teacher to know that you are organized and you are preparing for your lessons beforehand.
After you write down the course basics, you need to include what you hope your students will learn. They must indicate action on the part of the student. Objectives are generally written as bullet points.
Expected Learner Outcomes
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able...
Anticipated Students’ Problems
The students may/ will not understand some teacher's instructions and explanation.
Procedure
The procedure is the body of your lesson plan, the ways in which you'll share information with students and the methods you'll use to help them assume a measure of mastery of that material.
The teacher now writes down exactly what he or she will do, and how the students will be engaged in the activity. Procedures are written in numerical order.1.Stages; 2.Time;3.Aids; 4.Teacher activity; 5.Student activity; 6.Interraction;  7.Stage aims.
Plenary activity (e.g. seeing who has understood what, groups presenting, etc.):
Notes / special needs / differentiation for different pace groups or learners.
Follow-up lesson plan. Post- lesson refflection on the lesson.
What went well? Why? What didn't go well? Why? What changes will I make next time? Why?

В залежності від цілі, учитель може провести різні типи нетрадиційних уроків іноземної мови (за А.В.Конишевою): урок-диспут; урок-турнір; урок-гра; урок-КВК; урок-телеміст; урок-екскурсія; урок-аукціон; урок-пресконференція; урок-конкурс; урок-дискусія(-бесіда, круглий стіл); урок-дослідження; урок- проект.

References and Recommended reading.
1.Teaching English Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching (CiSELT). Module1:Lesson Planning
2. http://education.yourdictionary.com/for-teachers/what-are-some-sample-lesson-plan-formats.html
3.  http://www.academia.edu/2278127/PROCEDURE_AND_LESSON_PLAN_I-CELT_ESOL_
4.  https://www.teachervision.com/curriculum-planning/new-teacher/48346.html
NB.5.Lesson plan: Defining Aims  http://www.ukessays.com/essays/teaching/lesson-plan-defining-aims.php
6. С.Ю. Ніколаєва.  Основи сучасної методики викладання іноземних мов.Київ. Ленвіт,2008. 

понедельник, 7 сентября 2015 г.

Learner-Centered Classrooms and Learner-Centered-Teaching.
British Council. Teacher Development Summer School.

August 16th-21st.2015.
Project work. Syzko V.S.
Pavlograd. Ukraine.

I do not teach you, I show how to learn. Very often I address these words to my students when we have English lessons at school.
As you know I happened to attend the teacher training course by the British Council at  Teacher Development Summer School in August 16th-21st.2015. It  has been designed specifically for the needs of teachers in the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of the Needs Analysis which was carried out by the UK English teacher trainers in Ukraine in May 2015. That days the UK English teacher trainer Fiona Conolly came to Pavlograd and attended some lessons by English teachers at schools. To tell the truth all of us, lesson- givers got excited about the results of our work. But the visit was very friendly and soon many teachers appreciated the full meaning of a visit.
Now after the teacher training course I understand the aim of the visit for educational and school purposes. At that time I gave  "Career Magic.The World of Professions and Career Prospects." demonstrative lesson http://happyschoollife01.blogspot.com/2015/05/career-magic.html  It was a traditional  with some elements of learner-centred classroom. But now after investigating the Teaching English Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching (CiSELT). Coursebook.Module 4:Learner-Centred Classroom I focus more attention on the concept, can see the difference between teacher and learner- centred teaching and education.
There are some sentences and aims making the situation in the classroom more learner centred: 1.Making the  topic more personal; 2.Increasing the level of learner involvement: 3.Selecting different methods for completing the tasks; 4.Checking what learnes have done; 5.Deciding on timing to complete the activity; 6.Providing options for individual, pair work or group work; 7.Verying levels of difficulty for the tasks; 8.Checking what learnes already know about this; ets.
I am sure these sentences-statements may help many teachers in their work. And you may try out a new idea/activity from the workshop with one of you classes. Then you should reflect on your lesson to improve the work you will have done.
Here you can find a very useful information on the subject of Learner-Centered Classrooms and Learner-Centered-Teaching. It has become a very important and vital theory in Modern Pedagogy. A very nice and good way for self education.

References:
Teaching English Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching (CiSELT). Coursebook.Module 4:Learner-Centred Classroom. British Council 2011.
Student-centred learning.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student-centred_learning
Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/five-characteristics-of-learner-centered-teaching/
Learner-centered Teaching  http://fod.msu.edu/oir/learner-centered-teachingLearner-Centered Classrooms  http://lfonetwork.uoregon.edu/learner-centered-classrooms/
5 Ways to Make Your Classroom Student-Centered
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2013/12/24/ctq_powell_strengths.html

пятница, 4 сентября 2015 г.

British Council. Teacher Development Summer School. 
What is classroom management and why it is important.
August 16th-21st.2015.
Project work. Syzko V.S.
Pavlograd. Ukraine.

One of the sessions at Summer Teacher Training Programme was Classroom Management and Dynamics. Here I try to render  the meaning of the session content accurately, learn about  the subject more.
The  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia describes Classroom management as a term used by teachers to describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly despite disruptive behavior by students. The term also implies the prevention of disruptive behavior.Classroom management and management of student conduct are skills that teachers should acquire and develop all the time. Effective teaching requires considerable skills in managing  a lot of tasks and situations that occur in the classroom each day and require "common sense," consistency,  teacher behavior, a sense of fairness to all students.These skills also require that teachers understand in more than one way the psychological and developmental levels of their students.To learn more about the subject you can just find the information in the net.
Here is some specific information on Classroom Dynamics I learnt during the session at  Teacher Development Summer School. First of all it was information on group dynamis which refers to the relationship between learners in a group and  the impact that these relations have on the way students work. We had to take into account and discussed the ideas of purpose, climate, participation, conflict, roles communication which make an effective group and work of students.We shared our findings and they happened to be very similar.Then we investigated Patterns of interaction and discussed classroom activities.We dedecided what the most appropriate "grouping" (Individual work, Pair work, Group work)  for each activity would be.We were proposed to discuss such classroom activities: Doing grammar/ vocabulary exercises from the coursebook; Discussing topics of personal interest; Reading a passage from the coursebook and answering comprehention guestions; Doing project work; Doing ice-breaking activity; Writing a progress test; Describing a picture; Role playing a situation; Problem-solving task; Writing a book review; Doing a true/ false exercise, ets.
After that we worked in small groups and disscussed different  Seating arrangement of students in the classroom, its advantages and disadvantages.We understood that each one was perfect for this or that activity.Here are the names of seating arrangement to organize the work of students in the classroom:1.Traditional arragement; 2.Cafe style; 3.Boardroom style; 4.U-shape; 5.V-shape/Herring bone; 6.E-shape.
A very useful information was Stages of group development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Perfoming). We were shown a model of group development which is very important, neccessary and inevitable  for the team to grow, to face challenges, to tacle problems, to find solutions, to plan work and to deliver results.
For many teachers it would be useful to use in the classroom different Types of activities we were busy at the session: 1.People, rooms, lives-Look at the picture the teache has given you  and try to answer the guestions to it; 2.Department XYZ- work in group. Develop a new name for the team using the letters given to you; 3.Hot seat frenzy- describe the word, using synonyms, antonyms, definitions,ets.to your teammate who can't see the word.The person in the "hot seat" listen to the team and tries to gess the word; 4.Senses-take turns telling your partner what you could smell, hear, taste or feel if you were "in the picture"; 5.The for walls- choose one of the four photographs that you find the most appealing and stand in front of it. Share reasons for your choice; 6. Funny dialogue- memorise and role play the dialogue given to you by the teacher.These are only some of types of activities the teacher can use in the classroom.
A very important and useful knowledge was different roles the students play in a group and how the teacher has to deal with challengers to help a group work well.The roles may be: the adviser/opinion giver, the agressor, the latecomer, the joker, the whisperer, blocker, help seeker, the know-it-all, the sillent type, the teacher's pet, the playboy. So if teacher can manage  good classroom arrangement, know how to deal with each type of student role in a group it may  guarantee of good behavior of learnes in the classroom.
To guarantee good behavior of students, their perfect work and good results, the teacher should make a very good planning in this area and can create favorable conditions to avoid problems and gain success in teaching and learning.
So, to make a conclusion I would rather say the learning at British Council Teacher Development Summer School was very useful for me.I found a lot of new information and solutions to many problems we usually face in the classroom management.

References:
Teaching English Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching (CiSELT). Module5: ClassroomProcesses Classroom Dynamics. British Council 2011