TLS Activity & Resource Building

Look at the two Google Docs below.  Add any Listening and Speaking activities and resources.

TLS Activities List

TLS Resources List

CDE Listening and Speaking Activities for Adult ESL Learners

Oral English Activities

Qualities of a Good Teacher

Discussion Questions

• Who was your favorite teacher? Why? Who was your least favorite? Why?
• What do you like about teaching? (besides vacation time)
• What are the qualities of a good teacher?
• What qualities make YOU a good teacher?
• What are your greatest strengths & weaknesses as a teacher? 
• How can you become a better teacher and/or maintain your passion for teaching?
• What advice would you give to beginning teachers?

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Daniel Pink, author of Drive, on the power of intrinsic motivation

TLS - Listening Overview

Look at the two Google Docs below.  Add any Listening and Speaking activities and resources.

TLS Activities List

TLS Resources List

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Materials this is based on:
http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/listening/

List of Listening & Speaking Activities

Dictogloss & Dictation

• Dictogloss Handout
• Dictogloss Procedure
• Dictogloss Ebooks

Our in-class dictagloss Activity

Types of Dictation
 From Teaching ESL/EFL Listening & Speaking

• Running dictation  - dictation text outside of room, reader has to go back and
  reading it to their partner
• One chance dictation - text read only once
• Dictation of long phrases -  long phrases or sentences instead of paragraphs
• Guided dictation - some of the words put on board beforehand
• Dictation for a mixed class - read quickly, then read slowly
• Peer dictation - dictation in pairs or small groups
• Completion dictation - progressive cloze activity
• Perfect dictation - keep doing it until perfect
• Sentence dictation - one sentence at a time
• Unexploded dictation - slow down the speed of audio source
• Pair dictation - cloze activity in pairs

Sources of images for image related dictations

• What's the Difference Photos
• Life Magazine 'Pictures of the Year'

ELT Music Resources & Sites

• Lyricsgaps.com
• Lyricstraining.com
• Learn English By Songs.- another EFL music resource
• Musicalenglishlessons.org
• Teaching with Songs - ESL music materials from Isabel Perez
• Songsforteaching.com
• Tefltunes.com - ESLSong Lessons Songs For Teaching Grammar
• Lyrics Mode - find lyrics to popular English songs 
• K-POP MADNESS: Lyrics
  
  Online Karaoke
• Karaokeparty.com
• Karaokepla
• Singsnap

TLS (Lebow) Week#1

Reference Materials

• Teaching Listening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice by Jack Richards
• Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course- The Four Strands
• Paul Nation - The Four Strands of a Language Course (1996)
• The Four Strands (2007)

• Handout#1
• Handout#2

Flipped Classroom Resources

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

More about Khan Analytics (starts at 1:10)
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Education/Sal-Khan-Analytics-Khan-Academy

Interview with Salman Khan
http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Khan_Academys_Salman_Khan_The_Real_YouTube_Revolution#chapter_07

Flipped Classroom Network
http://vodcasting.ning.com/

About Flipped Classroom
http://www.peterli.com/spm/resources/articles/archive.php?article_id=2604

Teachers "Doing The Flip" To Help Students Become Learnershttp://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/teachers-doing-the-flip-to-help-students-become-learners-531.php

Gamification of the Flipped Classroom
http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/the-final-plan-khan-academy-gamification-and-the-flipped-classroom/

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Discussion Questions

• How effective/efficient is your direct instruction?   How much of this could students receive independently?
• What do you consider to be your most valuable 'student to valuable human time' in the classroom? 
• What do you do when there's a great disparity in how much different student seem to understand what is being taught?
• How do you deal with Swiss Cheese gaps of knowledge in your students (and yourself)?
• How could you envision a 'flipped classroom' model working for language learning?
• What would be the advantages and disadvantages?
• How would being part of a global learning community affect language learning in your class?
• How might gaming dynamics like 'badges, scores, and virtual role play' affect your students learning?
• What would the role of the teacher be in all this?