HOUSTON 2015 C2 - MAY 18 - JUNE 12

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Comment by David R Vaughn on May 25, 2015 at 7:26pm

Hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend.

I have a quick question. On the SRT coversheet we are asked to attach a lesson plan outline. What should that look like?

Comment by Matthew Noble on May 23, 2015 at 12:27am

The PDF copy of 'Learning Teaching' I linked to below is a much older edition of the same book from which a few pages about Receptive Skills work was taken and included in the packet from Tuesday. Use that first (the older edition isn't as focused).

The other most popular and reliable source to find support in the SRT assignment is Jeremy Harmer's 'The Practice of English Language Teaching', the PDF of which is here: http://www.researchgate.net/publictopics.PublicPostFileLoader.html?...

Comment by David R Vaughn on May 22, 2015 at 8:47pm

HAHAHAHA!!!! Amen. I wish there was a "LIKE" button on this thing.

Comment by Matthew Noble on May 22, 2015 at 5:23pm

Comment by Matthew Noble on May 22, 2015 at 12:29pm

The Tense Chart that I showed you on Friday:

http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/verb_tense_chart.pdf

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Your first submission of Assignment #1 (SRT) is due Tuesday. Remember that you WILL have a chance to RE-submit each and every assignment IF there's some main aspect missing. Resubmitting assignments won't affect your overall grade/assessment.

You'll find the 'Skills Related Task' COVER PAGE in the 'assignments' section of your CELTA Handbook.

When you finish writing your assignment and print it out to hand in on Tuesday morning, take the COVER PAGE from your handbook and staple that onto the front of your assignment.

You might also want to have a look at the COVER PAGE during your assignment writing process as well because it has our grading rubric on it...a rubric that you'll see matches the assignment instructions I have you on back on Tuesday (the back page of the packet with '10 Receptive Skills Tips' on the front).

You can also find all these forms as .doc files in the 'COURSE FORMS' section of this group page.

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One more supplementary support for the 1st assignment is this VIDEO linked to below (it's from the same source I liked to below, with lots of helpful videos for CELTA trainees on the various topics and assignments of the course).

In this video Jo Gakonga very systematically goes through all the essentials of the SRT assignment.

VIDEO: http://elttraining.mdl2.com/mod/page/view.php?id=244

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One requirement of the SRT assignment is that you show that you've read about Receptive Skills and can cite/connect something you've read to the lesson you're constructing/describing in the paper.

A few pages from "Learning Teaching" by Jim Scrivener on reading were included in Tuesday's packet. That really should be enough. Just in case, here's a link to a PDF of the entire book. Look for the receptive skills/reading section for something to backup the what/why of your tasks and/or text choice rationale. Use direct quotes in your paper. Then just cite the book in a bibliography.

Here's 'Learning Teaching': https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6s45WWdJGrcTV9tVWw4UDUxXzQ/view?u...

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Finally, just in case the assignment outline/instructions page on the handout I gave on Tuesday is too 'busy' for you, I've attached here another outline of the assignment criteria (same thing, many fewer words).

Cheers :)

SRT Basic Outline

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Have fun...and no, not ONLY working on your CELTA assignment and lesson plans. ;)

Comment by David R Vaughn on May 20, 2015 at 7:55pm

Good luck with that Matthew. I feel like you will be a little disappointed with the outcome of that game. Enjoy it either way.

Comment by Matthew Noble on May 20, 2015 at 7:26pm

That's true. Remind me to mention it tomorrow!

Another reason to help your peers get on here: I've got the audio files!

Find the files for all the book's audio tracks here:

(CD 1)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4m_FqU4Oew3Rlc3ejk1TWFoa2s&a...

(CD 2)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4m_FqU4Oew3dERMd0xVVUQxdGM&a...

You can download them from there.

Right. I'm off to watch the Astros lose to Oakland. :)

Comment by David R Vaughn on May 20, 2015 at 6:59pm

Thanks Matthew.

BTW...we never learned why #9 was "bunk" on the receptive skills worksheet.

Comment by Matthew Noble on May 20, 2015 at 6:41pm

I noticed that the 3 of you (David, Jan, Sydney) have successfully made it on here and that leaves 2...so: if and when you get a chance, can you perhaps show the absentees how you did it, maybe nudge them to click through? It would be really nice to have the whole crew on here.

And I never leave a message without some kind of CELTA-related gem, and this one's a good one!

If you're looking for follow-up materials to certain areas of the course or particular input sessions..even the assignments...look no further than the CELTA trainer Jo Gakonga's online videos.

They can all be found here: http://elttraining.mdl2.com/course/view.php?id=11

What she talks about only very occasionally differs from what we espouse/focus on in our course. These are great videos and really clearly and systematically break things down...and of course you can pause and rewind as needed. Past trainees have found them extremely helpful in reviewing how to appoach, for example, a lesson type that they had an input session on 4 very, very, very long days ago. Or review aspects of an assignment because they really, really want to pass it on the first submission.

To be clear, these are simply supplementary aids for the training process - no essential info will be missed out on for our course without them.

So if you like, put one on while chopping veggies for dinner, or play it on your phone (she's got them all on YouTube as well) while on the subway coming in to the center....OOPS...we're in Texas, baby. Hehehe.

Matthew (a Bostonian) ;)

Comment by Matthew Noble on May 19, 2015 at 10:28pm

I wanted make an addendum to the packet I gave you guys today (with the SRT assignment guidelines on the back page). The first page of that packet is "Top Ten Receptive Skills Lesson Tips"...and #9 contains something that really, really shouldn't be in there.

Tip #9 overall is pretty bad (I'm going to give you a really really good replacement 'tip' for it tomorrow)...but the worst part of it is where it says "play problem sections as often as necessary". BUNK.

I'll explain why tomorrow. In the meantime, think about why that might be bunk (nonsense).

Obviously this isn't crucual, life or death info here...but I did want to do a test of this 'comment wall'. And it's YOUR wall, so feel free to use it for anything you'd like to put out there for everyone (your 4 colleagues and myself) to see/read/know.

Cheers

PS - here's that 'how English sounds to non-native speakers' video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

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