Raising Awareness & Enabling Application
Summary
TLDRThis video series focuses on how English language department heads and teachers can apply the six principles of English language teaching and learning in their curriculum planning. Two teachers, Miss A. Last Resort and Miss Some Common, discuss how they thoughtfully and flexibly apply these principles to support student learning. The video covers two processes: raising awareness, where students engage with sensory experiences, and enabling application, where teachers model skills and strategies for students. By breaking down tasks and guiding students step-by-step, teachers help build students' confidence and enhance their learning experience.
Takeaways
- 🎯 The video series focuses on how English language heads of departments and teachers can apply six principles of English language teaching and learning, along with six teaching processes, in their curriculum planning.
- 📚 Two teachers, Miss A. Last Resort and Miss Some Common, discuss their flexible and thoughtful application of these principles and processes.
- 🎥 The discussion begins with the process of raising awareness, which involves introducing the topics students will learn and guiding them on the skills they will acquire by the end of the lesson.
- 🧀 Miss A. introduces a multi-sensory experience, bringing in mini wheels of cheese to help students connect more deeply with the topic, including watching a video about a cheese rolling competition.
- 🗺️ Raising awareness also includes showing students a roadmap of their learning journey, highlighting the skills needed to reach their goals.
- 📖 Teachers emphasize that students should predict the content of texts, a key practice in becoming expert readers.
- 🔍 Miss Some Common breaks down complex topics and text structures into manageable pieces, specifying clear content, language, and behavior objectives for each lesson.
- 🛠️ The process of enabling application involves modeling the application of skills, helping students observe and learn from the teacher's demonstration.
- 🤔 Teachers model thinking processes, including how to deal with challenging words by asking questions and drawing inferences from the text, making thinking visible for students.
- 👥 The teacher gradually reduces support, encouraging students to co-construct tasks with peers, helping them build confidence in applying the skills on their own.
Q & A
What is the focus of the video series?
-The video series focuses on how English language heads of departments and teachers can apply the six principles of English language teaching and learning, along with six teaching processes, in planning their school's English-language curriculum, developing lessons, and making decisions about how to teach English.
Who are the two teachers featured in the video, and what do they discuss?
-The two teachers featured are Miss A Last Resort and Miss Some Common. They discuss how they applied the principles and processes of English language teaching, particularly focusing on raising awareness and enabling application in their secondary classrooms.
What are the two teaching processes highlighted in the video?
-The two teaching processes highlighted are 'raising awareness' and 'enabling application'.
How did Miss A Last Resort raise awareness about cheese rolling with her students?
-Miss A Last Resort brought in mini wheels of cheese for her students to see, touch, and smell while watching a video of a cheese-rolling competition. This multi-sensory experience helped students connect with the topic and better understand why people participate in such an event.
What strategy did Miss Some Common use to help her students understand the purpose of their learning?
-Miss Some Common used a 'roadmap' to show students where they were in their learning and where they were headed. She emphasized the importance of developing skills and applying previously learned skills to reach their goals.
What is the significance of predicting in reading, according to the video?
-Predicting is a key strategy that good readers use to have a sense of what they are going to read. It helps prepare students by engaging their prior knowledge and setting expectations for the text.
How does Miss A Last Resort structure her lessons for her technical students?
-Miss A Last Resort breaks down the lesson into three components: the specific content or learning goal, the language needed to achieve that goal, and the classroom behavior required to support learning.
What is the role of modeling in enabling application according to the teachers?
-Modeling involves the teacher demonstrating a skill or strategy while thinking aloud, allowing students to observe and learn from the teacher's process. This helps students understand how to approach tasks and develop skills themselves.
Why is it important for teachers to model reading strategies, as explained in the video?
-It is important for teachers to model reading strategies so that students can see how an expert reader approaches difficult texts, including how they think through challenging words or concepts. This makes the process visible and relatable to students, showing that even teachers struggle at times.
How does reducing scaffolding help in student learning?
-By gradually reducing the amount of teacher support, or scaffolding, students are encouraged to take more responsibility for their own learning. This builds their confidence and ability to apply skills independently.
Outlines
🎓 Introduction to Applying Six Principles of English Language Teaching
The video introduces a series for English language department heads and teachers on applying the six principles of English language teaching and six teaching processes in curriculum planning, lesson development, and classroom decision-making. Two teachers, Ms. Last Resort and Ms. Common, share how they applied these concepts thoughtfully to support student learning. They discuss raising awareness and enabling application, focusing on how to engage students with tactile experiences and contextual learning, such as bringing in a physical object like a cheese wheel to make lessons more relatable and multi-sensory.
🧀 Raising Awareness: Using Tactile Learning in English Lessons
The teachers discuss how raising awareness involves engaging students with multi-sensory experiences to enhance their learning. For example, one teacher introduces a cheese wheel to help students understand a cheese-rolling competition by engaging their senses of touch, smell, and taste. This approach helps students relate to the lesson content on a deeper level and encourages active participation. The teacher also explains the importance of helping students connect new knowledge with previous skills, guiding them through a roadmap of learning to become better readers.
📖 Guiding Students to Predict and Reflect in Reading
The teachers continue to explore raising awareness, focusing on helping students become expert readers. They use prediction as a key strategy, prompting students to anticipate what they will read. By reflecting on previous lessons, such as predicting content, the students are encouraged to think critically about the purpose of reading and how predicting enhances comprehension. The teacher highlights that this method helps students to engage more deeply with the text, and understand the importance of reading strategies.
🔎 Enabling Application: Modeling Reading Strategies for Students
The process of enabling application focuses on helping students acquire new skills or strategies through modeling. The teacher demonstrates how to tackle challenging words by breaking them down and using context clues, such as identifying the meaning of 'crevices' in relation to mountains. The teacher 'thinks aloud,' allowing students to see the thought process involved in deciphering difficult text. This method of visible thinking helps students empathize with the teacher's struggle, encouraging perseverance in their own learning.
🤝 Building Confidence Through Co-constructing Tasks
To further enable application, the teacher scaffolds the learning process by co-constructing tasks with students. As students grow more confident, the level of scaffolding is reduced, and they are given more responsibility for completing tasks independently or with peers. This gradual release of responsibility helps build student confidence and reinforces their ability to apply newly learned skills. The importance of modeling and shared responsibility in the learning process is emphasized, ensuring students understand how to apply strategies before working on their own.
📚 Conclusion: Applying Raising Awareness and Enabling Application
The video concludes with a summary of raising awareness and enabling application, two key teaching processes of Accolade, in relation to the six principles of English language teaching and learning (CLIPS). These processes guide teachers in making informed decisions to foster student learning. The use of multi-sensory experiences, prediction strategies, and co-constructing tasks are all highlighted as effective methods for helping students develop critical reading and language skills.
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Keywords
💡Raising Awareness
💡Enabling Application
💡Modeling
💡Scaffolding
💡Six Principles of English Language Teaching
💡Accolade Teaching Processes
💡Predicting
💡Multi-sensory Learning
💡Co-construction
💡Empathy in Learning
Highlights
The video series focuses on how English language heads of departments and teachers can apply six principles of English language teaching and learning.
The six teaching processes help in planning school curriculums, developing lessons, and making decisions about teaching English.
Two teachers, Miss Last Resort and Miss Common, discuss how they apply the accolade process thoughtfully and flexibly to support students' learning.
They emphasize the importance of raising awareness about the text topics and what students will learn by the end of the lesson.
Miss Last Resort introduces a tactile element by using mini wheels of cheese to make a multi-sensory experience, enhancing students' understanding of the lesson.
Raising awareness includes showing a roadmap of learning, where students need to acquire new skills or rely on previously learned ones to achieve objectives.
Engaging students in predicting what they will read next promotes active thinking and preparation for the text.
Teachers use breaking down content, language, and behavior to facilitate understanding in students.
Enabling application focuses on helping students acquire skills or strategies through thoughtful modeling and co-construction of knowledge.
Modeling involves demonstrating how to approach challenging tasks, such as understanding difficult vocabulary.
Teachers emphasize making their thought processes visible to students, guiding them in how to analyze and draw conclusions from texts.
Students observe teacher behavior and apply it to their reading strategies, learning how to approach challenges like an expert reader.
Scaffolding is progressively reduced as students gain confidence, moving from teacher-led tasks to peer collaboration.
Teacher modeling is critical for enabling students to apply skills successfully before taking on more responsibility themselves.
The accolade processes of raising awareness and enabling application are key for building student confidence and enhancing their learning experience.
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this is a video series on how English
language heads of departments and
teachers can apply the six principles of
English language teaching and learning
and the six teaching processes in
planning their school's english-language
curriculum developing lessons and
materials and making decisions about how
to teach English in this series two
teachers miss a last resort and miss
some common talk about how they applied
accolade thoughtfully and flexibly when
making decisions and taking deliberate
action as they teach to support students
learning Solarian common we'll make
references to their secondary to express
and secondary to normal technical
classrooms respectively in this video
they speak about how they applied the
accolade processes of raising awareness
and enabling application while bearing
in mind the clips principals their
conversation begins with a discussion of
the process of raising awareness about
the topics of the texts they would be
introducing to their students and about
what they would be learning by the end
of the lesson raising awareness I think
one thing I did was introduce a more
tactile element in the experiences so
for students who may have never even
heard of cheese being in a wheel so for
them what I did was I brought in mini
wheels of cheese so every group had one
and when they watch the video right of
the action actual cheese rolling
competition they could look at the wheel
of cheese in their hands and try and see
how it corresponds so the feel of it how
it smells like and I mean I also had
students asking whether they could try
it so um they did taste it after the
lesson and it and I think that helps
them have a better idea you know why
would people go through go to great
lengths to chase this wheel of cheese
because it might taste pretty good so
it's a multi-sensory experience
raising awareness I showed them the
roadmap where they are and then where we
are heating you know so at least they
know okay to get from point A to point B
they need to learn new skills or they
need to fall back on the set of skills
that they have already acquired how many
of us want to become expert readers
raise your hand wave I'm glad it's 100%
commitment good job
but at the back of your mind I would
like you to think about the larger
purpose why must we become good readers
today we will be looking at text number
two but yesterday what did we do we
predicted right what we will be reading
today okay because in a very first place
what do good readers do what's the first
P we predict and we talk about the
reason why we need to predict can
somebody recall why do we need to
predict yes Stella yes we will have a
sense of what we are going to read
raising awareness
for my 2t students instead of just
putting like the sSAB right there in
front of them and getting them to
understand it I tend to break it down
into a specific content purpose for that
specific lesson so what is the learning
that must happen by the end of today
what is the type of language we're going
to use to make sure the learning happens
and very importantly I think for them
what is the kind of behavior that we
need to see in the classroom to allow
that learning to happen an abling
application
the process of enabling application may
be used to enable students to acquire
skill or learner strategy thoughtfully
and with care this is achieved through
modeling the application of the skill or
learner strategy and through
co-constructing the learning and
thinking together when enabling
application the teacher can begin by
modeling the application of a skill
learn a strategy or process to the
performance of a task this allows the
students to observe and learn from the
teachers demonstration as I was reading
this paragraph right that's one word
that I am not quite sure the meaning of
this thing because how often do I get to
travel to remote places like Antarctica
okay the word is crack crack crack
versus crevasses each time they come
across a challenging word right most of
the time our students would give up
right so we don't want that to happen
yes so we sort of try to model what an
expert reader would do and I am going to
ask myself I have to ask questions you
see what do I think the word means what
does it describe is it a thing a person
does it describe a feeling and action
well I have to read paragraph 1 in order
to try to find you know clues in the
text in that paragraph and see whether I
can draw a reasonable conclusion as to
what or what means okay let's read ok
crevices and then I see the conjunction
and mountains that is important
mountains crevices and mountains ok so
I'm gonna highlight that word Mountains
and I know that these things are found
in the cold place called an Topeka I
think the most important thing is for
the teacher to be the model so I will
model
I will think aloud I will make my
thinking visible to for my students and
what my students do is that they will
have to watch me closely and they will
have to observe my behavior the
questions that I ask myself you know and
they also made observations like for
example I may not always be right yes
that I also struggle yes and that makes
it real for them so then they can
empathize and they know that I am also
empathizing with them when they struggle
to read the text an abling application
through modeling the application of a
skill learn a strategy or process the
teacher scaffolds student learning the
teacher can then reduce the extent of
scaffolding by Co constructing the tasks
with students or letting students work
with their peers to construct the task
so I think the teacher modeling partner
is really important to enable students
to apply the skills and that yes because
they need to see how we do it before
they can actually do it so and by
releasing that responsibility slowly and
one thing at a time yeah you find that
you're building their confidence yes
you've just been introduced to raising
awareness and enabling application these
are two of the six teaching processes of
accolade together with the six
principles of e/l teaching and learning
or clips they are used by teachers in
making decisions about teaching for
learning in the e/l classroom
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