第二届全国体验式英语教学理念与实践高级讲习班.docVIP

第二届全国体验式英语教学理念与实践高级讲习班 Reflections on the Demo Teaching We learn best by doing. We have known this to be true for quite sometime. More than 2,500 years ago Confucius observed, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Most educators acknowledge that our deepest insights and understandings come from action, followed by reflection and the search for improvement. from ,Learning by Doing, a handbook for professional Learning communities at Work, by Richard DuFour et al (2006) Dear Participants: You are welcome to the session of demo teaching. In order to help you have better reflections on the demo teaching, we list some questions for you to think of. Certainly you can add more questions to the list. After the demo, try to answer and discuss these questions with other participants in the group. At the end of the session we are going to have a panel discussion on these or other related questions. We are looking forward to sharing your reflections on the demo teaching. Best wishes! Reflections on general principles of EFL Comprehensible input: Does the teacher provide instruction in a way that ensures that students are given comprehensible input (material presented in a manner that leads to the student’s understanding of the content, i.e., manipulative, scaffolded in L1, and so on)? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Interaction: Does the teacher provide opportunities to increase verbal interaction in classroom activities? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Contextualization: Does the teacher provide instruction that contextualizes language as much as possible? _____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________