Within each section it states what the students should be able to achieve for example under speaking and listening it states We want out students to develop increasing confidence and competence in speaking and listening so they are able to: • Clarify and explain their ideas and explain their thinking. • Use a varied and specialised vocabulary. • Listen with understanding and respond sensitively and appropriately. Under reading it states we want our students to enjoy reading, to be able to use their reading to help them learn to develop increasing confidence and competence in reading so that they are able to: • Read fluently and with understanding. • Select information from a wide range of texts and resources including print, media and to evaluate those sources.
The middle school students increased their abilities to locate main ideas when challenged with exercises in the lesson cycle. The lesson cycle was effective because it gave students practice with text structures, signal words, and graphic organizers (Montelongo, Herter, Ansaldo, & Hatter, 2010). The students also confirmed their comprehension through the correct rewriting of the given text. The authors conclude the study by acknowledging that further study is needed in order to evaluate the quality of expository writing and its effectiveness on comprehension. They further recognize that this study was limited to the specific use of main idea placement in either the first or last
Frank Smith, (2004), argues that teachers should model collaboration for their students by participating with them in writing skills for brainstorming, composing, and editing. This allows teachers to work with students to complete new writing skill tasks rather than one they already have agreed
Nowadays, many people on the world learn at least one foreign language because they want to improve themselves. The problem is how to learn a foreign language effectively. I think the best way to learn a foreign language is combination of the two ways: going to class and learning by yourself. When you study the foreign language in class, you have some benefits. You will receive the good materials that provide by school.
The opposite learning styles, involving listening and verbal skills, are more difficult for me. I would much rather learn how something works by using it than by listening to someone tell me how it works. When any of my teachers stand in front of the classroom and just reads form the text book. This type of teaching is my kryptonite, the words just pass right through me. To help me my learning process in class's like that i need to recreate the lectured material using my own visual tools and adapt my teacher's preferred teaching methods to my preferred learning styles.
Including a basket of items, which engage the five senses, can be handled and are catalyst for discussion might be considered. Providing large font posters of common expressions and quotes, which are familiar to students, could be helpful. Symbols, metaphors and similes in literature, would be good for small group discussion could be circulated. In small groups, students can write together sentences using similes and metaphors for each sentence, which the teacher offers topics. Allowing students to work in groups with magnetic words that are good words for similes and metaphors that students can choose from to help them in sentence assembly and improvement could be fun and educational.
Is it guidance, evaluation, or praise? For this paper, the definition of feedback comes from Wiggins (2005), where feedback is useful information about what happened in light of a specific goal, or “information about what and was not accomplished, given a specific goal.” This paper will discuss how feedback can be used most effectively in its implementation. Excellence is attained by the cycle of model-practice-perform-feedback-perform, and (according to the Academic Leadership Online Journal, 2007) research has “found that when teachers effectively employ feedback procedures, they positively and often powerfully impact the achievement of their students.” The journal article goes on to note, “Academic feedback is more strongly and consistently related to achievement than any other teaching behavior…This relationship is consistent regardless of grade, socioeconomic status, race, or school setting…When feedback and corrective procedures are used, most students can attain the same level of achievement as the top 20% of students.” Feedback is an important component of the formative assessment process. Brookhart (2008), describes the power of formative feedback as a “double-barreled approach” (pg. 2).
ENSP 703 At the beginning of classes in ENSP 703 I had simple goals that I want to reach, because this subjects it enhancing reading skills to improve writing abilities and improving character. First goal I want to improve my idea how to write and compose an better essay by following the basic pattern in composing essay, because this one is my weaknesses when I composing some essay it’s like a full of troubles that everyone’s cannot understand. Second one I want to improve more confidence in using the English language in daily conversations, because when I talk and speak in English like I said it’s full of troubles and it cannot understand. For the learning in this class, I learn some many skills from our professor that he virtuous when he
Teachers need to look at their ELL students as individuals with background knowledge, a culture, and prior knowledge. The goal of bilingualism is to teach the student English while appreciating their native culture including their ability to speak, read and write in their home language. Students, who continue to develop their native language while acquiring the English language, learn the second language faster. Due to this fact it is very important to get the student's parents involved in the education of their child, and to create a working relationship with their
This paper will briefly look at these two different approaches, discuss some options on how best to deliver an effective reading program, and review a commercial reading program, in this case, Jolly Phonics, and its usefulness in promoting phonological awareness. Phonics based instruction is basically the premise that reading is learned by making sense of the smallest components of language, meaning the letters, then slowly progressing towards the larger components of sounds, words and sentences, teaching the children the relationship between the letters. It is then that they learn to decode language and gain understanding. In essence, they break the code and master the components. This is generally taught through direct instruction, via the use of worksheets and rote exercises.