Monday, November 3, 2008

The Classroom Story.


Stone Fox.
Strategy: Teaching with High Speciation.
The teacher has high expectations of his students. So he feels comfortable and confident to their abilities.
This strategy is quite effective


Wine Box Sledding.
Strategies: Teaching through Social Interaction.
Students are support in L1 and also in C1
Students play role and have outdoor activities
These strategies are quite effective to catch students’ interest


Scene- Setter Visuals.
Strategy: Teaching Through Content
The creation of a pre reading activities facilitates the students’ process of learning, even more if they are exposed to images and videos.
Paraphrasing is another useful strategy to facilitate the learning process.
Very effective strategies.


Power Words.
Strategies: Multimodality (use of color, drawings, magazine pictures, charts stick on the wall, etc)
Students create a list of terms that they want to use. Also they have to classify words into categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)
These are good strategies because each student learns different. For example, some can learn vocabulary faster classifying words into categories.


Spin-Off Stories.
Strategies: Teaching Through Content
After reading the story, students share some personal experiences related to their pets and also the teacher does. There is a kind of rapport between students and the teacher. Students can express themselves using the multiple intelligences. Some of them are better in expressing their ideas writing them and other is better in expressing their ideas through drawings.



All the strategies that I could find in the text are quite useful; after all, the purpose of each strategy is to improve students’ skills.

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