Affective Teaching

Discussion 3 - Task 1: Getting ready for story telling Storytelling is a memorable moment in which learners establish strong connections with the language. What aspects are important in your opinion to take in consideration when planning a storytelling activity? Find stories your children will like and appreciate. Stories should match their age and language level. They should have simple structure and positive attitudes. Stories that children could connect with their daily life and their thinking, curiosity and interest. How do they affect the moment in which we are with our studants? When the story´s background is considered; the vocabulary is mostly familiar to the students; or if the story has a lot of unifamiliar vocabulary (but is comprehensible, or can be pre taught); if the teacher uses pre and post storytelling activities; or employs the teachniques for both phisical actions and oral modulation to tell the story; then storytelling is likely to become an interactive way of enhan...

TASK 2: Getting ready for storytelling. I have a group of 12 kids ranging from 7 to 8 years old. They are already familiarized with the characters of the book (Tina the tortoise, monkey, own, duck and rabbit). The leading character is Tina the tortoise. This is a pre-teaching activity and I bring realia objects to the classroom like: football, a coat, socks, a cap and a mug. I ask kids where Tina is: where is Tina? ( I act like I'm looking for her..) Oh look! Tina is in her shell! Tina come out and play! ( sound of a negative answer) Help me kids! Repeat: Tina come out and play! ( sound of a negative answer again). Let's try again but louder! Tina, come out and play! Tina answers: No, no! It's cold outside! I say: Tina let's swim! ( I make the gesture) Tina answers: no, no! It' cold outside! I let children have ideas showing the objects inside the box! Let's play football! Children keep trying to convince her (Put on a coat! Put on a cap! Put on your socks!). A...

Discussion task #2: Introducing puppets and engaging learners (I'm going to introduce my first puppet ever). It doesn't look charming, but I meant to have it look like this and with the glasses - maybe to use it as a wise character later on !! He's called Mody ( a very popular nick name for many Arabic names) T : Hello Mody, why are you sad? M : I can't finish my English project. T : Why don't you ask for help? M : I'm shy to ask anyone for help. T : Why? you can ask any of your friends. M : But they might think I'm not smart and just laugh at me ! T : Oh, what do you think kids? Can you help Mody? SS : Yes, we can (hopefully, or they might ask about the project) T : Ok, great , so go ahead Mody and ask your friends here. M : But they will laugh at me (whispering to T.) T : Will you ? (Whispering to sts, facial expressions !) SS : No. T : Good, so what do you want to ask about Mody? M : (Ask a question that relates to a previous lesson or a language point ss...

Task #1 : Getting ready for storytelling I believe that besides all the wonderful features shared this week (the routine, the place, being fun, tone and voice, ..etc.), we should plan for how we will extend and personalise the storytelling session to go beyond just telling a story. While planning, I usually start as usual with exploiting the language in the story and the morale. But as our students create their own visualization of the story and that imaginary world (that's the bit they enjoy most), we have to give them more time to live with the story and enjoy their world. I think carefully about how to create post storytelling activities such as; arts and crafts work (draw and create characters or items used in the story), role play, a letter to a character in the story, imagining they were one of the characters and sharing how they would react, creating a poster or a wall chart, or even creating their own version of the story (using comics). These kinds of activities are often ...

Task 1: Sorry again for posting late! it's now that I have listened to the recording and I regret twice not being able to attend the live session. it was full of insightful ideas and joyful fun. Story telling is a great way not only to learn in a funny atmosphere but also to build strong affective connection with our students. To my mind, the important aspects when planning a storytelling activity are preparing an interesting hook , the secret to a successful storytelling is initiating well the story to catch the students' attention and keep them interested. Teachers should also prepare the necessary pictures, visual aids or flashcards that help the students visualise the content of the story and understand the new unfamiliar vocabulary. Visuals are generally captivating and students love them. Besides, it is crucial that the student prepare some elements of suspense in order to surprise the students and keep them attentive to the story. That can be possibly done when knowing e...

Discussion task #3: Building puppets with students for a specific purpose Please watch the Funtastic world of puppets video and choose one puppet your students can build and use during the English classes. Then design a guided activity that your students will use their puppets for a specific purpose. They could use their puppets to practice a dialogue, read, review, etc. Please share your puppet choice and your activity with the group. I find it amazing that, in my head, creating puppets was so hard and after showing the video, how wrong I was! Creating them can be so simple and it doesn't demand too many resources, just creativity. And as a result, here's my activity: I tell students they are in Potato city now. I ask them about a different name if they want to (e.g. Potatoville, potatoland, etc) and make potatoes doing different activities (e.g. playing soccer, watching TV, using a cell phone). I ask students to name them as they like it. Then, I say a Potasteroid crashes in...

ASSIGMENT 3 - TASK #3 This assigment was dificult to acomplish. I did this task with two groups and none of them like the idea puppet in the classroom. First the oldest students, they really dislike the idea. there were problems such as presenting their puppet or interact eachother. The second group like doing the puppet but they were younger students so, it was difficult for them to comunicate. After reflecting i consider that my students need more activities like charades or mimics for them to feel comfortable using new materials such as puppets.

Task 1: Storytelling is a memorable moment in which learners establish strong connections with the language. What aspects are important in your opinion to take in consideration when planning a storytelling activity? How do they affect the moment in which we are with our students? Seeing this question reminds me of my favorite teachers back when I was a kid. They always had an interesting tale, there was a hook, building tension and the outcome would always makes us laugh, or at least get startled by it. And as a teacher, I try to implement these elements in the stories I create for students: there should always be a hook, where I draw all students' attention to what I'm doing, and there must be some kind of conflict/tension we need to solve. I try to involve students in the story as they are co-authors in it (even if they don't know it) by asking questions, letting them decide which way the story should go and not letting it drift too much off track (or maybe doing it, ofte...

Week Three: Discussion Task #3 Building puppets with students for a specific purpose Personally, I am interested in Dr. James Asher's method called the Total Physical Response that use commands in action to teach, which is also excellent for total beginners. In fact, if I was going to teach a class of total beginners tomorrow who had zero English, and I also did not speak their language, so I could not do any translating, I would use actions in my first classes probably for about the first month I would use teach using actions like he said: “Stand up.” And then I would stand up and they would look at me. Then would say “Sit down” and they would look at me. Eventually they would understand “Stand-up” means stand-up and “Sit down” means sit down. Then I would use more and more command and building sentences long, long commands using several parts and this would give them a core of language. They would start to understand English. And then, I would use the same vocabulary and start cr...

Task 3 : Building puppets with students for a specific purpose There are so many ideas for making a puppet in the video! Love it! I have often been using stick puppets. They are easy to make and kids love them. I would like to share with you my activities when teaching " Hey diddle diddle" song with my kindergarten students. It is a funny song and in the song ate mentioned a cat and the fiddle, a cow, a moon, little dog, a dish and a spoon. They can all be made puppets but for the first class I choose the funniest part of the song " the cow jumped over the moon " . First I introduce them with the puppets, then I tell them the song like a story using the puppets. They especially like the part when the cow jumps over the moon and when the dish runs away with the spoon :)))))) I play the song while making the cow and moon puppets. They are easy to make and after we are done with them we sing, using the puppets. The next class, we make the rest of the puppets and we act...

Week 3: Getting ready for story telling Discussion task 1 I use lots of stories in my classes. They are excellent way for learning the language, they are fun and the teacher can create lots of activities from the story. What is important when storytelling? Act, pretend, change your voice, use puppets and the kids will enjoy! I act the stories, prepare story puppets, use simple words if I think they can not understand the language in the story. They do not even breath while listening with their mouths open :)))))) There are some easy to remember phrases in the story and we act them together. Kids enjoy acting. We retell the story several times together, and they make their own puppets and I often see them during the breaks playing with the puppets, acting and enjoying, which means we had a successful class.

I realise that we are beyond Week 3, but as this is somewhat/tangentially Week 3-related and it just made me LOL...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU ...  (not for the faint-of-heart!) ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU

Week 3 Task #3 Box Puppets I did this activity during Purim, to decorate the school all the classes did a box puppets. Since k2, the grade that I am teaching this year, was working with Spot's book, we got a Spot's friend from the book "Where's Spot?". We did the Lion. They could play copying the book and the sounds that the lion says. We worked the language of the book and all the animals in the book. They had a lot of fun.

Week Three: Discussion Task #1 Getting Ready For Storytelling Stories are the oldest tool of teaching, and still the most potent. For most of human existence, we have used stories to share information and educate our offspring about the world. It is no wonder our brains have evolved to process stories more effectively than other formats of information. In fact, stories do more than allowing information transfer only.   In other words, storytelling as a particular method to teach language is powerful. Storytelling is a great way in teaching language because language learning happens unconsciously. It happens naturally when students to a certain degree understand the language. The best way of establishing strong connections with the language is listening to stories or listening to audios with natural, real language that learners understand. And when they understand, they do not need to be focusing on the parts, they do not need to focus on grammar or think about it. They will naturally g...

Discussion task #2: Introducing puppets and engaging learners A bit of puppetry; I think I need to work on not moving the puppets mouth when I'm speaking and sound a bit more lively! How can Norton get home?

Task 3 This is part of our summer school course where students make a toilet roll puppet. We use instructional language in English and show them how to make a puppet. They then get to design their own puppet. Finally in the video they introduce their puppet.  https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftectrat%2Fvideos%2F1266142120064348%2F&show_text=0&width=560

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Task 1 What aspects are important in your opinion to take in consideration when planning a storytelling activity?  Yesterday was the first time I have had an  storytelling activity in class. So I waited to do it to know what could be useful feedback to keep in my for next time. Now I know that 1 students need a little bit more build up to enter the story time world. Also, ss need to be more part of the experience than just listeners; so, it would be useful to think ahead of some role they can participate on. Lastly, I would say that planning wisely on the time aspect would be beneficial. This is all very new for me but I am very willing to learn and try out new things. How do they affect the moment in which we are with our students?  -I believe every moment where we are showing our students how much we care and how much we want to do things with them shows. I can asure my students appreciate all the efforst in making them a big part of the learning process and knowing how to do these ...

What aspects are important in your opinion to take in consideration when planning a storytelling activity?   I was teaching storytelling to maternal (3 year old kids) it was so difficult because they are spanish speakers learning in a bilingual context. the first I did  was to choose the correct story for their age. I choose The hungry giant.  i choose flashcards for the story and after i did pictures of vocabulary. I started the class introducing vocabulary showing the flashcard and i intruduced the chracter. After that I started with the story. At first was difficult for them to understand, but at the end they mimic what the giant was doing in the pictures.  thing to consider in my opinion: age, level, context.   How do they affect the moment in which we are with our students?  I believe that storytelling specially for young learners is very important. As a teacher i like to give my students this moment of fun where i can see that they not only enjoy the pictures but also to make the...

Third week assignment. So here are the snakes Sasha and Sushi:-D because they go Shhhhhh. Sasha is the naive one and Sushi is kind of cheeky. I inspired myself on a famous tv show in Spain called El Hormiguero with two similar puppets that are ants and which has even been exported to Argentina and other countries. On the second photo Sacha and Sushi are posing with the whole family: Venus and Blanquito (whitey). I am going to give them to my two private students who are sisters. I hope they will like them!