Have you ever tried to teach "Reading" in secondary school?, I have, and believe me, it's a hard work , however once we achieve doing it, it's SO REWARDING. share your experiences with me. : p
Wow, your classroom looks like a nice dream for me, imagine those girls multiplied by five, then I should ask any recommendation for reading in large groups?
I remember teaching High School students reading comprehension. They were between 35 to 40 students. At the beginning they were extremely reluctant due to the different learning experiences they'd been through. Afterwards they changed their mind when, in an experiment in another language rather than English, with a French text they had to apply different techniques like scanning, skimming, cognates, connectives and the like to answer difficult questions related to history. They felt they were able to read anything in any language as long as it shared the same characters and almost the same writing system.
Nevertheless, I also support Teacher Bell; for having a large class is difficult. Still, I would normally agree that giving students a small spark brings them a feeling of achievement and that there is still a lot to learn as you previously stated.
It is amazing to see how "multitask" you are. As you already mentioned you can do a lot of things because you are a teacher, that is the answer. Being a teacher is another world. You all in the master are very professional and full of strategies. Remember to have them always busy and check what you learned in the master when we worked with reading comprehension strategies. There were a lot of suggestions from your classmates.
Hi George, I can finally write on your blog! I think the key part in order to engage our students to read in English, Spanish, French or any other language is to provide them with something interesting for their age to read. I will suggest having a quick survey with your class and finding out one or two topics that they are interesting to know a little more and provide them with a text so you can teach them and apply all the strategies as teacher Celia said that we’ve learned from the master as well as from previous experiences. I am planning to post a reading activity on my blog any time soon so visit me, you might find it useful.
I cannot remember any significant memory about reading at this moment, but the teaching/learning of writing. It's pretty difficult to understand the English style of writing whilst we want to narrate with many details, they like to express straight and clear ideas.
I haven't taught a specific subject for reading, but I have worked on that with my students because sometimes it seems that they do not know how to read even in Spanish! And as you said, it is complicated!! But when you notice improvement, definetely rewarding.
Hey! You haven´t visited my blog! well, reading? Of course it's hard, if its hard for us...imagine those poor kids! When I was working in a bilingual school I was extremely concerned about this problem and I had a crazy idea: I asked students for a pillow, I rearranged chairs and stuff and I organized a kind of pajama party (this was usually on Fridays when they didn't wear uniform). I distributed short stories (horror stories were really succesful!), we read them individually (I did it too) and then we had to tell the story to the class. They could eat or be lying down. It worked!
Wow, your classroom looks like a nice dream for me, imagine those girls multiplied by five, then I should ask any recommendation for reading in large groups?
ResponderEliminarI remember teaching High School students reading comprehension. They were between 35 to 40 students. At the beginning they were extremely reluctant due to the different learning experiences they'd been through. Afterwards they changed their mind when, in an experiment in another language rather than English, with a French text they had to apply different techniques like scanning, skimming, cognates, connectives and the like to answer difficult questions related to history. They felt they were able to read anything in any language as long as it shared the same characters and almost the same writing system.
ResponderEliminarNevertheless, I also support Teacher Bell; for having a large class is difficult. Still, I would normally agree that giving students a small spark brings them a feeling of achievement and that there is still a lot to learn as you previously stated.
It is amazing to see how "multitask" you are. As you already mentioned you can do a lot of things because you are a teacher, that is the answer. Being a teacher is another world. You all in the master are very professional and full of strategies. Remember to have them always busy and check what you learned in the master when we worked with reading comprehension strategies. There were a lot of suggestions from your classmates.
ResponderEliminarHi George, I can finally write on your blog! I think the key part in order to engage our students to read in English, Spanish, French or any other language is to provide them with something interesting for their age to read. I will suggest having a quick survey with your class and finding out one or two topics that they are interesting to know a little more and provide them with a text so you can teach them and apply all the strategies as teacher Celia said that we’ve learned from the master as well as from previous experiences. I am planning to post a reading activity on my blog any time soon so visit me, you might find it useful.
ResponderEliminarI cannot remember any significant memory about reading at this moment, but the teaching/learning of writing. It's pretty difficult to understand the English style of writing whilst we want to narrate with many details, they like to express straight and clear ideas.
ResponderEliminarI haven't taught a specific subject for reading, but I have worked on that with my students because sometimes it seems that they do not know how to read even in Spanish! And as you said, it is complicated!! But when you notice improvement, definetely rewarding.
ResponderEliminarHey! You haven´t visited my blog! well, reading? Of course it's hard, if its hard for us...imagine those poor kids! When I was working in a bilingual school I was extremely concerned about this problem and I had a crazy idea: I asked students for a pillow, I rearranged chairs and stuff and I organized a kind of pajama party (this was usually on Fridays when they didn't wear uniform). I distributed short stories (horror stories were really succesful!), we read them individually (I did it too) and then we had to tell the story to the class. They could eat or be lying down. It worked!
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