Portfolio development: Week 12
General format I retitled the portfolio from a writing portfolio to a learning portfolio. It's now two sides of A4 for each day. The total contents are as follows: Space for twelve lines of daily…
General format I retitled the portfolio from a writing portfolio to a learning portfolio. It's now two sides of A4 for each day. The total contents are as follows: Space for twelve lines of daily…
About this routine This routine uses three conversation questions to build a teaching and learning framework. The routine 1 Show students three conversation questions in a Wordwall Unjumble activity. Students work on their own and…
The problem In the EFL universe, you sometimes hear reference to the idea of TTT or Teaching Talking Time. The concept is used to explain to teachers that talking incessantly at learners might not be…
AB options I curate interesting student language problems and present them to learners in an online table shown on the screen. I give the students two choices in an A-B form and invite them to…
The problem Correction codes are symbols that teachers write on student work to give them "clues" as to what might be wrong with their language output. Over the years, these symbols have become more or…
Student portfolios Students write half a side of A4 in every single lesson about topics that are related to the day's lesson. They have told me they appreciate this activity because it gives them a…
The problem Error correction usually refers to a process in which a teacher writes notes on a board about student language output and "goes through" the errors with learners. Why is this a problem? It…