Educational links for primary school children

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Eleven Principles of coping in Large Multilevel Classes

 Principle three: pace

Correct pacing means that we should handle each activity and phase of activity at the tempo and momentum suitable to it. Without correct pacing, we can lose control and make our students either bored or frustrated, and in a large mulitilevel class such students become troublemakers. We have to make provisions for students who finish early and create the kinds of activities that allow the slower student extra time.

Each class has different demands for pacing, and only careful observation can teach us just what kind of pace to set for our students.

Authentic Materials and Cultural Content in EFL Classroom

Advantages of Using Authentic Materials

ü  They have a positive effect on learner motivation.

ü  They provide authentic cultural information.

ü  They provide exposure to real language.

ü  They relate more closely to learners ‘needs

ü  They support a more creative approach to teaching.

Changes in linguistic and learning theory suggest that culture can be used as an important element in language classroom, but many students say that they do not want to learn about the language culture of the target language. This might be because of the fear of assimilation into what they perceive as something strange to them. I believe that cultural content is a key to effective teaching and learning a language provided that problems arising from introducing culture in EFL classroom are dealt with effectively and teaching strategies and learning materials are chosen appropriately.

As all we know, knowing a language goes beyond the knowledge of grammatical rules, vocabulary items and pronunciation of these items. Successful language learning requires users to know that culture underlying language in order to get the meaning across.

Choosing a textbook

Choosing a textbook is one of the most important tasks for the foreign language teaching at any level.

Criteria for Evaluating Textbooks and other Printed Materials

As elementary and middle school foreign language teachers evaluate text series or curriculum materials developed in other districts, the following questions are recommended for the screening process:

1.    Goals

2.    Communication

3.    Culture

4.    Subject Content and thinking Skills

5.    Bias

6.    Physical Characteristics

7.    Support Materials

8.    Budget.

There fore it is important to take into account the personality and likes of your students, as the teacher you know them and you must choose a tool useful for you and for the learners.

Whole Brain Teaching: 4th Grade Critical Thinking

Evolution of instructional materials design

I think that the evolution of Instructional Materials Design tries to maximize the effectiveness, efficiency and demand of other learning experiences. This is a hard work that consists of determining the current state and needs of the learner, defining the end goal of instruction, and creating some intervention to assist in the transition.

Effective materials include certain components: Teacher´s manual, test items or resources, a study guide and activity guide.

Effective materials usually include the following features:

1.      Instructional goals with adaptability to course requirements.

2.      Accurate, relevant and relatively up to date information.

3.      Well organize, coherent, and unified flow of information.

4.      Appropriate reading level and vocabulary.

5.      Effective layout, visual presentation, and physical features.

6.      Absence of stereotypes and biases.

7.      Multidisciplinary content with multiple rather than single perspectives.

8.       Small concepts taught as variations on larger themes.

9.      Development of insight and thinking skills rather than just memorization of insolated or unrelated facts.

10. Real world applications of information skills.

11. Inclusion of supplemental and references for teaching.

Priorities for Evaluating Instructional Materials

Teachers make a difference in students learning and materials with effective learning strategies can support or impede their impact. It is important the kind, frequency, and intensity of active participation and lesson related tasks included with materials.
Motivational Strategies: Features that maintain students motivation include:
1. Positive expectations.
2. feedback
3. appearance.
Setting Positive Expectations
In addition to the clear statement of goals and settings expectations, development of the right climate for learning sets expectations and contributes to students' motivation, involvement, learning outcomes, and contentment. the learning climate must be intentionally designed into a course.
Factors that contributes to a learning climate include:
1. friendly, attentive, and encouraging communication.
2. Student collaboration assignments and group projects.
3. student communication and presentations.
4. Informative feedback on students progress.

Principles for Effective Materials Development

By  Teacher Stephanie Segura


 According to Brian Tomlinson, author of  Principles for Effective Materials Development, each principle needs to be derived from principle of language acquisition and should them be used to develop frameworks that link together procedures in an organized and coherence way.

Some principles of language acquisition mentioned that called my attention are:

• A prerequisite for language acquisition is that the learners are exposed to a rich, meaningful, and comprehensible input language in use.
• Students need to engaged both effectively and cognitively in the language experience.
• Language learners who achieve positive affect are much more likely to achieve communicative than those who do not.
• L2 language learners can benefit from using those mental resources that they typically utilize when acquiring and using their L1
• Learners need opportunities to use language to try to achieve communicative purposes.

Some principles of language teaching mentioned that called my attention are:

• The content and methodology of the teaching should be consistent with the objectives of the course and should meet the needs and wants of the learners.
• The teaching should be design to help learners to achieve language development and not just language acquisition.
• The teacher needs to be able to personalize and localize the materials and to relate them in different ways to the needs, wants, and learning style preferences of individual learners.