I was so thrilled that today's two teaching demonstrations with Class 912 panned out the way I planned. All the desired activities kept the students engaged throughout the whole filming process. Though I only met them twice for the two classes that I sat in for, their performances were much better than I expected, especially given the fact that it has been over two weeks after they took the CAP exam. Now, let's relish some memorable moments:
1. Present like Steve Job
I've been so fascinated by his 2007 iPhone
presentation and watched it over and over again, with his ideas deeply
ingrained in my head. Can I also introduce his secrets like memorable
headlines, rule of three, and stories with a villain and a hero to my students
so that they would come to understand the value of being a good presenter? With
the help of Backward Design and Task Based Learning, this seemingly too
difficult objective gets easier and feasible by getting my students finishing
tasks that the previous one paves the way for the next one.
With the 100 thousand TWD grant from winning the
International School Award, it has become my next big goal to build a scenario
simulation classroom where students pass challenges by completing tasks
collaboratively. For example, they need to watch home-made English speaking
videos about KMJH and nearby tourist attractions with cultural and historical
significance, along with answer the embedded questions correctly, in order to
move on to the next learning station. EDpuzzle provides exactly the easy-to-use
interface to trim any YouTube videos and turn them into educational materials.
3. Information Gap
3. Information Gap
With the two divided groups of students forming
an inner and an outer circle, students receive different sets of questions and
practice asking and answering them a few times with different partners. Through
repetition, they will be getting more and more familiar with the questions and
also get the hang of how to express their ideas.
4.
Learning English is fun
On a whim, I even got them shouting "We
make English learning fun" out loud at the end of the filming to celebrate
the satisfying outcome. I would really like them to feel that learning English
can be fun by experiencing a variety of engaging activities, with all the four
language skills involved during the demonstrations.
Lesson Plan
The communicative
purpose of this unit is to describe what technology can help improve our lives.
Who can better do that than the presentation guru, Steve Jobs? With the ideas
and techniques of Task Based Learning and Backward Design, students are able to
complete the given tasks as well as learn to appreciate the value of
simplicity, story telling, and a memorable headline when it comes to presenting
high-tech products.
I. Pre-Task
Objective 1: With the given dialogue and sentence
patterns, students are able to answer questions with the cellphones correctly.
Activity 1: Kahoot
Assessment 1: Observation
Objective 2: With the slides of techniques that SJ
used to present the very first iPhone, students are able to identify skills
like simplicity, story telling, rule of three, and humor with the teacher’s
introduction and compare
Activity 2: Comparison
Assessment 2 Discussion
II. Main Task
Objective 3: With the original script of Steve Jobs’
2007 iPhone presentation, students are able to fill in the blanks correctly by
using their listening comprehension.
Activity 3: Listening
Comprehension
Assessment 3: Check List & Observation
Objective 4: With two edited video clips of Jobs’
presentation created by the teacher on Edpuzzle, students are able to answer
questions and express their ideas correctly and clearly.
Activity 4: EDpuzzle
Assessment 4: Check List & Observation
III. Post-Task
Objective 5: With an inner and an outer circle formed
by students with two different sets of questions, students are able to get more
and more familiar with what just has been taught by answering questions and
exchange ideas through repetition.
Activity 5: Information
Gap
Assessment 5: Check List & Observation
IV. Teaching
Procedures
1. Greeting,
introducing the topic, rewarding system and what we’re going to achieve today (2
mins)
2. Kahoot (6 mins)
3. Steve Jobs’
secrets (10 mins)
4. Listening
comprehension with blank filling (5 mins)
5. Answering
the questions with EDpuzzle (10 mins)
6. Information Gap
(10 mins)
7. Wrap up (2
mins)
Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps
Well, today, we’re introducing three revolutionary(革命性的) products of this (1) ___________________.
The first one: is a widescreen iPod with (2) ___________________ controls.
The second: is a revolutionary mobile phone.
And the third is a breakthrough(突破性的) (3) ___________________ communications device(裝置).
So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communications device.
An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone … Are you (4) ___________________ it?
These are not three separate (分開的) devices, this is one device, and we are (5) ___________________ it iPhone.
Today, today Apple is going to reinvent (重新發明) the
(6) ___________________, and here it is.
So what are we gonna do? Oh, a stylus (觸控筆), right?
We’re gonna use a stylus.
No. No. Who wants a stylus?
You have to get em and put em (7) ___________________, and you lose em. Yuck.
Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not (8) ___________________ a stylus.
We’re gonna use the best pointing device in the world. We’re gonna use a pointing device that we’re all (9) ___________________ with – we’re born with ten of them. We’re gonna use our (10) ___________________.
We’re gonna touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal(突出的). [0:33:33]
It works like(11) ___________________.
You don’t need a stylus. It’s far more accurate (正確的)than any touch display that’s ever been shipped.
It ignores (忽略)unintended (不在意想中的) (12) ___________________, it’s super-(13) ___________________.
You can do multi-finger gestures on it.
And boy, have we patented it.
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