She started off by giving us an overview of her teaching and the lessons she teaches. She shared a course that she has taught with us where the students do as much work at home (shared via Dropbox) as possible so the class time is spent on speaking, feedback and introducing new materials. Nellie commented that it is important for students to take responsibility for their learning.
Like me, she likes to give an overview of some grammar points which are often spread out over many units in a book or even more than one book. Sometimes it helps students to get an overview of some grammar and see the connections.
She gives links to students for websites which help with autonomous learning, these include podcasts, TEDtalks and audio books and a new one for me voscreen. (I had a look at it and it is a brilliant tool for listening comprehension!) and Elemental for pronunciation work. She also gives students other advice such as using sticky notes placed strategically to help with vocabulary.
She also shared some other sites that she uses.
She showed us how she personalises collections of links for students depending on their needs.
She then went on to talk about teaching unplugged which she had been using for a long time before she realised what it was called!
She talked about different tools that she uses and then reviewed the way that children learn by immersion and play. She tries to incorporate this in her lessons too in a way she calls living the language.
Elisa was a special needs student who she involved in her daily routine and used the activities to teach her the language connected with the tasks. This was another brilliant presentation and I have taken many screenshots of her slides so that I can look more closely at all the tools and ideas that she showed us. For me this was the most practical presentation so far because of all of Susan's wonderful ideas. Thank you very much!
I am adding her website as she has a list of links for students there. bilingual-communications
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