https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk English Together YALOVA en-us 2021-08-31 11:19:42 UTC 2025-04-21 18:15:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f929.png ilkayseven27 https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1707329602 I need to have a careful needs analysis about my trainees in terms of personal, professional and common teaching issues. I can give them a survey or just simply start a discussion to know more about them including age, gender, interests, hobbies, motives, background,attitudes, level of knowledge, English levels, etc and also about their teaching; the difficulties they have, their teaching environments, school standards and facilities, ICT tools, the aims, levels or types of their schools, needs of their pupils.. etc. In this way the context of my PLC will be more relevant to them and I can also differenciate my activities in terms of the expectations and interests of them. I can give concrete and familiar examples by taking their ideas into consideration. Maybe I can give some sentences like : Think that you are.., Imagine that you have... problem.., I like when the trainer does..., In sessions, ı don't really want..., I learn best by...  Or Ask them questions like 'What are the strenghts and weaknesses? What skills do you need to have?]]> 2021-08-31 15:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1707329602 ilkayseven27 https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1710116449 I'd like to use describe and draw activity to develop listening and speaking skills. The students may tell a story and we can divide the story parts into tasks for each group. They can describe the scenes and the plots and then draw them. We can collect all the pictures, put them in an order, tell the story again. Or simply, the students may use the activity to talk about hobbies and interests... etc. I suppose there is no one way of doing any of the activities that we learned and experienced here. We can reorganize, recreate a new game, play, task or activity through a blended approach by including the other techniques and methods. Thanks for the session. It was beneficial.]]> 2021-09-01 14:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1710116449 ilkayseven27 https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1710165417 I think the most important problem for both speaking and listening is that the students don't seem so enthusiastic. That's not only because they feel shy about talking in a foreign language but it is also because they simply ignore the value as it is not evaluated by the teachers in regular exams at school. They are accustomed to be evaluted and graded by tests in which they only see gtrammar, reading and writing. In fact, we should include all four skills to our rubrics for portfolios or every kind of evaluation criterias. Furthermore, the government policy for the general exams should be upgraded, too. This is an attitude and motive issue and very hard to change but absolutely it will worth trying. Besides, we can talk about some other problems. some students insist on talking in their mother tongue because of shyness or their low level of language proficiency. On this occasion, we can supply them extramaterials, pre study tasks ( handouts, worksheets, videos and maybe even lesson presentations highligtening the most difficult parts) , some phrases and useful expressions to use, splly them speech cards or some extra materials... etc. 
The content of the listening may be fast or not interesting at all. Then, we can differenciate the activity  using live listening or active listening techniques. Lack of motivation could be lowered by using some active learning strategies like guessing games, role plays, ranking or information gap activities. Apart from all of these, the teachers shoudl be well prepared, organised using the most relevant materials or content that takes students' interests. Also they should have good classroom management skills.]]> 2021-09-01 15:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1710165417 ilkayseven27 https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1712471276 First I share what, why and how we will learn that particular topic. The most difficult part of my lesson could be the unwillingness and lack of motivation. They may not be eager to read sth at home. I can create an audio e-book using storyjumper tool. I can prepare a paperslide or find a video with subtitles and give it to them as an assignment which is cut and added three questions using edpuzzle. By this way, fun in reading is emphasized and also I can ask the 3 questions again in class to check if they fulfilled their task at home or not. Maybe I can ask them to create a mini summary video in which they answered the questions and they can send them to me before class using EBA platform or google classroom. I can givesome handouts or worksheets for main vocab or grammar for them to practise.  They can also have the audio forms of the text to practise pronounciation and fluency. I believe this builds self confidence. 
When they come to the class, they will have a short quiz about the topic using the tool Quizizz. The ones having no or less idea about the topic can go to a corner and study either the text, video or handouts...etc for max 5 min while other will keep on with some activities. 
After checking all if they have studied or not, we can move on the class activities. In class the groups of students can walk and find 3 papers on which there is a warm up question. They answer all of them and discuss in one minute I can whistle and they can pass the other question. Then they read it to scan some key words that they don't know. We can write the words on board and have a Quick search with groups having one or two of them and sharing with the class. Then they can find the paragraphs ardından and put them into the correct order. After that, they can read it with short breaks when i clap and show someone she/he continues reading. After reading we may have some extended questions, matching, filmini, categorizing exercises, cloze tests ... etc. At last they can discuss about it and write a summary in groups using station technique.]]> 2021-09-02 10:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1712471276 ilkayseven27 https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1712648116 Today we set and practised so many new, creative and enjoyable activity plans. Read out loud is not considered as a reading activity. It can enhance pronounciation and fluency but not reading skills. We revised the general structure of reading (pre- gist- detailed- post) and created sample exercises. They were very useful I'll certaiy share them with other collegues. Onion ring can be applicable for most of the classroom activities. 
We also had a chance to discuss about flipped classroom via a text we studied for reading. It was an interesting topic for us and we were eager to read with curiosity. That is the same for the students. If we can find a topic of interest for them, or something that they are curious about, they will be actively participated. 
For creating groups, our facilitators used different activities, matching the color pens, cities and capitals, favourite animals... etc. More enjoyable ways than just to say ok kids here are your groups. I'll certainly try and share with my collegues practising together.
I had some idea about penzu, british council wewebsite, readtheory, and lots of other tools. Also product, process and snack writing practises were really engaging. I'll use especially snack writing lesson plans and my collegues will have the chance to see how engaging it is. The topic shoudl be interesting for reading and writing to take the attention of learners. We should try to do the reading and writing more collaboratively. We can use picture text, hide the text, dissappearing text, key word inspectors, Gap stories, parallel texts, adding colors. It was a catchy session. And I'm süre it will be the same when I share the info and experience with my collegues, too.


]]> 2021-09-02 12:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1712648116 ilkayseven27 https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1714716154 This was an enjoyable activity]]> 2021-09-03 06:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ilkayseven27/2v1f00ikv4cdbnk/wish/1714716154