PHILADELPHIA CELTA - OCTOBER 19TH, 2015 - NOVEMBER 13TH, 2015

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Comment by Chris Meoli on November 4, 2015 at 8:32pm

Here are a couple more sample lesson pans. You also got one from one of the trainers in week one that you can check out.
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Comment by Chris Meoli on November 2, 2015 at 11:29pm

FOL and Learning Styles
As discussed when we set up the FOL last week: No, the existence of "learning styles" has never been proven, folks. Sorry:/

And, yes there is research showing the opposite: No change in learning when "teaching style" is changed.... That's why we do research: so we do not continue believing things like the earth is flat or dyslexia is a problem with vision and symbol recognition.

yet... I am still reading words like "[name] is definitely a verbal learner." on the FOL assignments...
Please do not perpetuate this myth any further by labeling your students or allowing them to label themselves.

Psychologists and educational researchers have warned educators about this and how damaging this labeling can be to student learning. This is actually old news (disproven over a decade ago), but for some reason people cannot let it go. I have several academic research articles about this if anyone is interested. Just let me know.

Here are a couple of easier-to-read online articles summarizing the main points:

The Myth of Learning Styles

Learning Styles - Fact and Fiction. A Conference Report

Here is a pretty funny satirical article about how ridiculous all of this learning styles nonsense is.

Comment by Chris Meoli on October 28, 2015 at 9:37pm

SRT Resubmits:

For those of you who need to resubmit and are having trouble identifying the reading subskills, here are a few tips:

Below are a number of subskills from Harmer (2001) from which you can choose based on your task.

Below from : Cambridge ESOL CELTA Written Assignment 1 Language Skills Assignment – Clive Elsmore
Available here: https://clivesir.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/wa1-a.pdf

Receptive skills are further categorised into sub skills in Harmer, 2001: 201-202.
Applying
equally to listening, amongst them are:
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identifying the topic (by activating students' schemata – relating topic to pre-
existing knowledge)
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reading for general understanding (skimming for gist - reading quickly to establish
key topics, ideas, theme and structure)
•
reading for specific information (scanning - reading quickly to establish facts,
figures, dates, names etc)
•
reading for detailed information (reading carefully and intensely to extract
understanding of all details - such as when carefully completing a tax form)
•
extensive reading (reading widely)
•
predicting (including speculating, inferring, deducing)
•
interpreting text (takes us beyond the literal meaning - depends on shared
schemata)

Comment by Chris Meoli on October 23, 2015 at 1:24pm

Howard Gardener's article about what learning styles ARE NOT:)

Comment by Chris Meoli on October 23, 2015 at 1:23pm

This is a great professional development organization from some big names in the TEFL field:itdi(international teacher development institute).

Free membership. Free webinars and blogs and tips etc.

Check out the recording of Matthew Noble's presentation on:
(Un)consciousness & (In)competence: Tracing & Traversing Routes, Roots, Ruts, & Rules in Learning & Teaching

Comment by Chris Meoli on October 23, 2015 at 1:23pm

You don't need luck:) Just hard work and dedication:)

Comment by Yaseen on October 21, 2015 at 8:43pm

I'm in .... Good Luck everyone.

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