We had the time today to sit and discuss teaching and learning for about 45 minutes! Lovely! Here are a few ideas that came about.
- Learning buddies and experts
- Seating plans (e.g. B grade girl with C grade boy)
- Group/ Peer work
- Create own activities or teach somebody something
- Reading games - race reading, shout out next word where teacher stops, cloud text, running dictation, paragraphs around room with question sheets for students, group work with different paragraphs - students make another group to answer questions, groups have same text but 4 sets of questions
- Coloured slides not black text on white background
- Structured questions
- Vocab sheets with key words for new topics
- Think of 3 adjectives, 3 verbs, 3 nouns for topic so far, if partner can guess meaning, they get a point but if not, I get one. Move to next partner.
- Translate sentences but mix the order so doesn’t go from easy to hard
- Put cards in correct order to build sentences. Instead of giving to students ask them to come and pick to build up their own - throw them on the floor!!
- Listening activities - peer support in answering questions together on MWB, bang the table when you hear the keyword, predict the answer, multiple choice.
- Homework - think of an interesting sentence, create a starter for partner based on...
- Varied use of target language
- Carousel activities
- Use of MFL assistants or TA in lessons
