CALL Course for High School Teachers
Petach Tikva 2001-2
Instructors: Frida Austerman
and Gail Shuster-Bouskila
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Learning Styles, CALL and the Israeli EFL Curriculum
Introduction
The English Curriculum
lists about 70 principles underlying language learning, teaching, choice
of material, tasks and assessment.
One of the principles
states that “Language teaching is more effective
when teachers… are aware of and sensitive to pupils' diversity and cater
to it”. During this session you are going to explore one aspect
of the issue of pupil diversity.
Tasks
Think about your own learning
style. Copy and paste a picture into a WORD document and write about its
connection to your learning style.
Read advice columns for
teenagers. Copy a letter of advice found on the Internet and paste it into
a WORD document. Write your own advice about the topic you chose.
Plan your own lesson to
use in your classroom
Online material
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Reflect on your
personal learning style
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Look at the lesson plan we prepared for
you about writing letters of advice.
Reflection
It’s time to reflect on
implementing lessons of this type:
What is it about this lesson that makes it teachable?
What is it about this lesson that makes it difficult to teach?
Did you like being a student having this lesson "done" to you?
Was it engaging? Did it inspire you? Why or why not?
How does the duplicated lesson plan do a better job teaching than the
traditional method?
Where Do I Go From Here:
Make plans to prepare
a lesson for your pupils which will integrate computers. You will need
to do some pre-computer work and some post-computer work too. In
the first session we looked at two different types of lessons. One was
available online on our site and the other was duplicated and given to
each participant. In the second session we used one or two PowerPoint slides
to introduce the topic of our lesson.
Your First Assignment
Choose the topic that interests you and then create a lesson plan that
integrates use of computers.
Create a trigger or prediction exercise in PowerPoint.
Hand these in to Frida and Gail by bringing them to class on diskette or
sending them to our course's email address: [email protected]
Resources
Babylon Online Multilingual Dictionary
http://www.babylon.com
Israeli English Curriculum
http://www.etni.org.il/ministry/curriculum/curriculum.doc
Graphic Organizer
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6291.html