Teaching Demonstration with TBL at Tan Show

Teaching Demonstration with TBL at Tan Show

Respect Different Cultures (B3L3 A Hard Lesson for Jason, Nan-I)

臺中市立光明國中李國禎

This class is aimed at demonstrating how incorporating a series of reading tasks and Cooperative Learning techniques can help engage students with the given text, “Respect Different Cultures”, and also develop some reading strategies, like predicting, questioning and summarizing.

This lesson plan mainly follows the framework of Task Based Learning, with three stages stated as follows.

MC of the Readers Theater Competition

.I have been assigned as a Master of Ceremonies for the fifth consecutive year. Five years ago, I developed the MC’s script both in Chinese and English and took part in Taichung’s Readers Theater Competition since then. Other members of the Advisory Group have also taken turns hosting this big event with the very same script since then. Probably I have sat through over 200 performances. Not every English teacher gets the chance as I did, which definitely will be an indelible memory in my career.

Cooperative Learning Workshop at Chung Lun

Sharing what I have learned about Cooperative Learning

Gorgeous campus of Chung Lun

Being invited to share my teaching practices with regard to Cooperative Learning many times, I got to sit through all the presentations of participants’ collaborative lesson planning for the very first time today. I picked up many brilliant ideas and definitely will give it a try in my class, and they are listed as follows.

Microteaching of Cooperative Learning and Reading Activities

Thanks to the event planner’s invitation, I got to travel to NNIEHS Tainan and TYJH, doing microteaching and introducing a series of intriguing reading activities that can motivate interest of learning and also benefit students in terms of reading strategies, such as making predictions, phrase match, Gallery Walk and so on. Based to the participants’ feedback and some detailed questions about teaching practices, I’m pretty sure I’ve made a positive impact.

Microteaching with TBL and Reading Strategeis at LMJH

It was totally my honor today to get invited by this well-established school which has achieved great success in Cooperative Learning. Principal Li took part in the workshop throughout the entire time and asked questions that indicated he himself is also an expert in this field.