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TEACHING IN PRIMARY CLASSROOM

 

HOW TO TEACH?

 

Teaching is a difficult task and o be a competent teacher we all have to cover many important aspects This wheel called C-Wheel, shows all the aspects that we have to consider when teaching.  
Around the wheel there are eight blocks showing key elements, all beginning with the letter ‘C’, which help us to work towards creating optimal conditions for learning:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTEXT: the context for learning needs to be natural, real and make sense to the child. It also needs to support learning and allow for the active discovery and construction of meaning.

CONNECTIONS: we need to build in connections to other areas of learning, e.g. science, as well as to the child’s own real life experience and language, and how these compare and contrast with English. Content and Culture are therefore two further ‘C’ ingredients that come in here.

COHERENCE: we need to provide carefully linked opportunities for children to acquire and learn language in ways which are meaningful and comprehensible, and to ensure that the reasons for doing things are perceived as relevant and worthwhile.

CHALLENGE: we need to develop thinking skills as well as language skills and there needs to be an appropriate balance between linguistic and cognitive challenge.Cognition is therefore another ‘C’ ingredient which comes in here.

CURIOSITY: we need to arouse and maintain children’s curiosity and make the act of learning interesting, relevant and enjoyable in its own right. Curiosity can extend to topics and content from other areas of the curriculum, as well as to other people, cultures, literature and language itself.

CARE: this includes treating children as individuals, supporting their learning appropriately and using positive language – some of the areas already discussed in the previous two posts.

COMMUNITY: children need to feel part of a community in which they feel valued and secure, and participate willingly. Community is the superordinate for three other important ‘C’ words which develop when children feel this way: Communication,Collaboration and Cooperation.

CREATIVITY: we need to include activities which develop creativity, fantasy and imagination that are so much part of the world of primary-aged children and can lead to positive new learning.

 

 

Carol Read's ABC of Teaching Children : http://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/c-is-for-c-wheel/

 

 

TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

 

To teaching pronunciation is important: 

 

• To give our students the opportunity to imitated. 

• To review the parts of the mouth to make appropriate English sounds.

• To practice the use of a sound or a sound pattern with tongue twisters, for example:

 

 

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

The slippery snake runs smoothly down the sluiceway.

She sells seashells by the seashore,
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.
So if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

 

 

Here we have more tongue twisters to practice with our students: Visit here

 

 

Also it is important to know the International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

 

According to Howard Gardner, creator of multiple intelligences, the intelligence is the ability to solve everyday problems, to generate new problems and create products or offer services within their own cultural sphere.

The theory of Multiple Intelligences address the differentways human beings learn. 
Offering pleasant and relevant activities according to the skills, interests and developed intelligences in our students, we will allow them to learn properly, and they’ll be motivated to discover and use their acquired  knowledge to different situations, improving teaching and learning and also improve our work as a teacher.
If we explore the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses, we’ll be able to better help our students. Also, we will feel that education provided by the teacher fits students’ needs, preferences and tastes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACTIVATING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TELLING TECHNIQUES

 

1. Have an interesting story to tell.
2. Memorize the basic story. Don't read!
3. Use body motions to emphasize the story.
4. Use facial expressions.
5. Allow our voice to be expressive.
6. Stimulate their sense (Listen! Look! Let's...)
7 Add details. Described (Can you see?...)
8 Find a suitable place.
9. Practice in advance.
 

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