Different needs discussion
Dear Svitlana,
Reinforcement and recycling
are definitely important and I'm also trying to figure out how to make them
work :) And my plan is .. to use technology.
You can create Power Point
presentations with new words for each text / topic / unit etc. They are great
for presenting and learning new vocabulary, as well as revision. It will take
1-2 minutes to go through the slides and revise target vocabulary as a class.
Here you can download and have a look at two recent presentations that I've created for my daughter.
Here you can download and have a look at two recent presentations that I've created for my daughter.
Power Point presentations for
grammar topics work well, too.
You can create all
presentations in advance, save them on CDs and distribute among parents so that
children can revise the words at home throughout the school year and on
holidays.
Surely creating so many
presentations will take you loads of time but think of engaging your
colleagues. Together, you can create PP presentations to support every unit of
your coursebook!
Another idea that I've tried
is to keep a kind of 'class reference folders' with all grammar and/or
conversational topics that they've learned. I created one folder for each desk,
kept them on the shelf and distributed among students at the beginning of each
lesson. With these folders, I didn't have to waste time explaining the rules
again and again. I just asked my students to open their reference folders on a
certain page and complete some revision exercise with the help of it.
Usually we ask our students
to write down some rules at the back of their vocabularies or copybooks but
students are sometimes absent so they don't have all the rules, some students
aren't neat writers so their rules are a mess. They also tend to forget or lose
their vocabularies. That's why I thought that classroom reference folders would
be a good idea. A copy of such reference folders can be saved on CDs and
distributed among parents as well. They can print them out for their children
to use at home.
Finally, I sometimes hold
myself back from trying to have my students remember everything we've learned.
At the early stage, I think we should estimate the result not only by the
number of words / topics / rules that our students have learned. What's really
important is their motivation, their improving memory, their confidence, their
skills that have been developing during the process of learning.
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