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educational-origami - home - 0 views

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pedagogy teacher-training teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Feb 13
     
    "Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what." A most interesting site that tells us what the learner needs to know. [Thanks to Bee.]
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ESL EFL Teaching Activities, Worksheets, Lessons, Games - 8 views

www.teach-this.com

online-lessons teacher-training games tasks teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 08 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 08 Jan 14
     
    "Whether you are looking for teaching activities, worksheets, lessons, games, ideas or articles, you've certainly come to the right place. The pages at Teach-This.com are designed to direct you quickly and easily to the ESL/EFL teaching resource you are looking for. You will find lots of new teaching ideas and activities to keep your classes imaginative and interesting." Created by Paul Adams, this crowd-sourcing site collects lesson plans and activities from teachers and lets other teachers download pdfs and use them. Categorized roughly by themes and grammar structures, there is a lot of helpful cross-referencing. Each lesson has a designated level (intermediate, elementary, etc.) and a brief abstract. Most lessons are for teens/adult learners. It's up to you what pedagogy or approach is going to work with your students. It's free -- add your own lesson!
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Getting Results - 0 views

www.league.org/...index.html

Joy_BOOK_Intro video online_lessons pedagogy teachers teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Module 1: Creating a Community of Learners Module 2: Planning for Outcomes Module 3: Active Teaching and Learning Module 4: Moving Beyond the Classroom Module 5: Teaching with Technology Module 6: Assessing Teaching and Learning
  • Module 1: Creating a Community of Learners Module 2: Planning for Outcomes Module 3: Active Teaching and Learning Module 4: Moving Beyond the Classroom Module 5: Teaching with Technology Module 6: Assessing Teaching and Learning
  • Elizabeth Hanson-Smith on 22 Apr 09
     
    A multi-week video course for professional development. Sponsored by NSF. Communty-college oriented but good for all levels of teaching and learning.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Oct 12
     
    6 self-access video modules for the effective use of technology in classrooms. A multi-week video course for professional development. Sponsored by NSF. Communty-college oriented but good for all levels of teaching and learning.
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UNESCO Office in Bangkok: SimAULA: Training our teachers through innovative methodologi... - 4 views

www.unescobkk.org/...ologies-based-in-serious-games

ESP teacher-training games pedagogy teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 25 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 25 Jan 13
     
    This is a teacher training simulation/game that helps recreate the realities of teaching. A European Lifelong Learning Programme project. The trainee contols and avatar that interacts with student avatars in a virtual classroom where a series of situations arise that challenge pedagogical skills. The first example deals with teaching biology.
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Shaping the Way We Teach English - 6 views

oelp.uoregon.edu/shaping.html

teacher-training teachers pedagogy online_lessons VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Deborah Healey on 09 May 09
     
    Teacher training website with links to video content from a US Department of State funded project with the University of Oregon. All content is freely available.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 24 Oct 11
     
    "Shaping the Way We Teach English is a video-based training product for English language educators. It has 14 modules (topics). The videos showcase classroom scenes from around the world and have an accompanying training manual plus additional readings. "The University of Oregon developed and produced the materials through funding from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs ©2007. All materials are free of charge and copyable for non-commercial educational use."
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Buck Tradition or Risk Being Crushed By the Scope of Your Paradigm « LIVING I... - 0 views

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pedagogy teachers teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Mar 12
     
    "Too often we have hung our hopes on an amazing piece of technology to improve our training outcomes, when all we have succeeded in doing was improve our access…our ability to track…our ability to test…our ability to organize…and our ability to report on…training that still did not sustain improved human performance in the workplace. My point…technology is not a solution to a restricted paradigm." A little dense in the writing, but Gary Wise makes some good points about learning/teaching/training.
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4 Tools to Teach About Climate Change | graphite Blog - 1 views

www.graphite.org/...-to-teach-about-climate-change

content-based project-based K-12 online-lessons tools environment VSL science

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 10 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 10 Jul 16
     
    "As part of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), students need to "ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century." Many teachers have little to no formal training on how to teach about climate change. Along with the ever-changing research and the controversy that comes with it, some teachers inevitably shy away or even prevent students from digging deep into the content. Some suggest that teachers might be getting climate change all wrong. Since teachers can't rely on books to stay current with all the new research, digital resources are the only effective way to stay on top of such a dynamic field. Consider these practices when using technology to teach about climate change:" Sites include NASA Global Climate Change, Climate Kids for younger learners, Global Oneness Project, and Earth-Now to analyze realtime data.
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MERLOT Grapevine - 0 views

taste.merlot.org/...index.html

CoP MERLOT teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • MERLOT and TLT Group partner to deliver two faculty development programs 1. Group Webcast – MERLOT: Teaching with Technology In April of 2006, MERLOT and the TLT (Teaching, Learning and Technology) Group will offer the three week, online, participatory workshop, MERLOT: Teaching with Technology. The workshop will focus on how the MERLOT collection and services provide faculty with valuable resources in the design, delivery, and assessment of courses offered face-to-face, entirely online, or in a blended (hybrid) format. The workshop is one of many planned activities in which MERLOT and its partner TLT are cooperating. The first of the three part series begins April 5th and runs from 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST. Other session are April 12th and April 19th. Ray Purdom, Editor of MERLOT’s Teaching and Technology discipline, will coordinate the series and conduct the workshops with members of the TLT Board and other MERLOT discipline boards. For more information and to register visit http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Schedule.htm. For information regarding other TLT events click on http://www.tltgroup.org/Events/EventsCalendar/Chronological%20View.htm 2. TLT Group Presents On-Line Events The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (http://www.tltgroup.org/) strives to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change. For a list of scheduled events, go to http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Schedule.htm.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13
     
    MERLOT has Webcast conferences and online journal now. This very useful resource is sponsored by the California State University consortium, and also has a Second Life venue.
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Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught - 9 views

americanradioworks.publicradio.org/...rethinking-teaching.html

teachers pedagogy teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • "We need to educate a population to compete in this global marketplace," says Lukoff. We can't do that by relying on a few motivated people to teach themselves. "We need a much larger swath of [the] population to be able to think critically and problem-solve."
  • , Mazur told the students to discuss the question with each other. Eric Mazur teaching his class at Harvard. (Photo: Emily Hanford) "And something happened in my classroom which I had never seen before," he says. "The entire classroom erupted in chaos. They were dying to explain it to one another and to talk about it."
  • But here's the irony. "Mary is more likely to convince John than professor Mazur in front of the class," Mazur says. "She's only recently learned it and still has some feeling for the conceptual difficulties that she has whereas professor Mazur learned [the idea] such a long time ago that he can no longer understand why somebody has difficulty grasping it." That's the irony of becoming an expert in your field,
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  • Mazur says. "It becomes not easier to teach, it becomes harder to teach because you're unaware of the conceptual difficulties of a beginning learner."
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 15 Feb 13
       
      How can this approach best be applied in teaching languages?
  • g. Students end up understanding nearly three times as much now, measured by a widely-used conceptual test.
  • You can see a video of Mazur's peer instruction approach in action here:
  • Peer instruction has proven effective in a range of subjects from psychology to philosophy.
  • "I know I'm frustrated now with some of my other classes when I go to lecture and I have to just sit there and take in information and I don't really get the opportunity to think about what I have just learned," she says. Lyne says she's learning more in this new way.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 15 Feb 13
     
    Be sure to view the 2.21 min. video of Mazur at work in his "lecture" class. If students "end up understanding nearly three times as much..." in a flipped classroom, how can this approach best be used in a language class?
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Book review: 'Building a Better Teacher,' on secrets of good teaching by Elizabeth Gree... - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

pedagogy teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 17 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 17 Oct 14
     
    Interesting thoughts, by M. S. Roth of the Washington Post, on the relationship between money spent and excellence in teaching. Is great teaching "natural" or a learned behaviors. The discovery of effective strategies to use in classrooms needs to be shared and built upon.
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Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - The Chronicle of High... - 2 views

www.chronicle.com/...49497

learning-styles pedagogy teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Jan 18
     
    "If you've ever sat through a teaching seminar, you've probably heard a lecture about "learning styles." Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and others are kinesthetic learners. Or maybe you were given one of the dozens of other learning-style taxonomies that scholars and consultants have developed. "Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners-students who learn best through hands-on activities-are said to do better in classes that feature plenty of experiments, while verbal learners are said to do worse. "Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom." Be wary of any teaching/learning fad, and look for experimental design in research. However, it does make sense to use a variety of stimuli, "styles," and approaches to spark curiosity and give variety. Kids do get bored if it's all "by the book."
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Teaching in the Online Classroom - 1 views

www.teachingchannel.com/tlac

online-teaching online-learning online-tutorial teacher-training blended-learning VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 16 Nov 20 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 16 Nov 20
     
    "Each 45-minute webinar will feature clips of real educators teaching students remotely as we explore the most effective ways to engage and educate students in an online classroom." I expect these webinars will be available for some time after the COVID crisis ends, so this may be a good spot to learn more on blended and fully remote teaching. Reasonably price at $149 for a 15-hour course of study.
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Asking Questions - ESL EFL Teaching Activities - 3 views

www.teach-this.com/...asking-questions

online-lessons teacher-training teachers young-learners adult-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 08 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 08 Jan 14
     
    Teach-This.com is an interesting site that appears to be developed by teachers for teachers. A typical page, like this one contains a dozen or so activities/lesson plans with a brief description and downloadable pdf files for each. The bottom of the page has links to other topics in the site. The activities specify a learning level, but not age, but almost all are for teens/adult learners. A really good resource, but you'll have to decide for yourself if the activity is appropriate for your own students and teaching style.
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Preparing Students For Tests: Have Students Generate Questions - 5 views

www.teachingchannel.org/...preparing-students-for-tests

teachers teacher-training video pedagogy VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Jul 12
     
    The TeachingChannel has some beautiful, professionally edited videos on how to teach different things (not specific to ESL/EFL) - the techniques are what is important. Each video has discussions by the teacher, classroom shots showing the students at work, and excellent Lesson Objective and Questions to Consider in the sidebar. Very valuable for teaching training in techniques, classroom management, and ways to approach subject matter in a student-centered approach. These would all be very adaptable to ESL/EFL environments.
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10 Things I've Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC - 0 views

www.hybridpedagogy.com/...earned-from-making-a-meta-mooc

MOOC cMOOC online-learning pedagogy VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Technology has a way of making people lose their marbles — both the hype and the hysteria we saw a year ago were ridiculous.  It is good that society in general is hitting the pause button. Is there a need for online education? Absolutely. Are MOOCs the best way? Probably not in most situations, but possibly in some, and, potentially, in a future iteration, massive learning possibilities well might offer something to those otherwise excluded from higher education (by reasons of cost, time, location, disability, or other impediments).
  • Also, in the flipped classroom model, there is no cost saving; in fact, there is more individual attention. The MOOC video doesn’t save money since, we know, it requires all the human and technological apparatus beyond the video in order to be effective. A professor has many functions in a university beyond giving a lecture — including research, training future graduate students, advising, and running the university, teaching specialized advance courses, and moving fields of knowledge forward.
  • My face-to-face students will learn about the history and future of higher education partly by serving as “community wranglers” each week in the MOOC, their main effort being to transform the static videos into participatory conversations.  
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  • I’ve been humbled all over again by the innovation, ingenuity, and dedication of teachers — to their field, to their subject matter, and to anonymous students worldwide. My favorite is Professor Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania who teaches ModPo (Modern and Contemporary American Poetry) as a seminar.  Each week students, onsite and online, discuss a poem in real time. There are abundant office hours, discussion leaders, and even a phone number you can call to discuss your interpretations of the week’s poem. ModPo students are so loyal that, when Al gave a talk at Duke, several of his students drove in from two and three states away to be able to testify to how much they cherished the opportunity to talk about poetry together online. Difficult contemporary poets who had maybe 200 readers before now have thousands of passionate fans worldwide.
  • Interestingly, MOOCs turn out to be a great advertisement for the humanities too. There was a time when people assumed MOOC participants would only be interested in technical or vocational training. Surprise! It turns out people want to learn about culture, history, philosophy, social issues of all kinds. Even in those non-US countries where there is no tradition of liberal arts or general education, people are clamoring to both general and highly specialized liberal arts courses.
  • First let’s talk about the MOOC makers, the professors. Once the glamor goes away, why would anyone make a MOOC? I cannot speak for anyone else — since it is clear that there is wide variation in how profs are paid to design MOOCs — so let me just tell you my arrangement. I was offered $10,000 to create and teach a MOOC. Given the amount of time I’ve spent over the last seven months and that I anticipate once the MOOC begins, that’s less than minimum wage. I do this as an overload; it in no way changes my Duke salary or job requirement. More to the point, I will not be seeing a penny of that stipend. It’s in a special account that goes to the TAs for salary, to travel for the assistants to go to conferences for their own professional development, for travel to make parts of the MOOC that we’ve filmed at other locations, for equipment, and so forth. If I weren’t learning so much and enjoying it so much or if it weren’t entirely voluntary (no one put me up to this!), it would be a rip off. I have control over whether my course is run again or whether anyone else could use it.
  • Interestingly, since MOOCs, I have heard more faculty members — senior and junior — talking about the quality of teaching and learning than I have ever heard before in my career.
  • 9. The best use of MOOCs may not be to deliver uniform content massively but to create communities and networks of passionate learners galvanized around a particular topic of shared interest. To my mind, the potential for thousands of people to work together in local and distributed learning communities is very exciting. In a world where news has devolved into grandstanding, badgering, hyperbole, accusation, and sometimes even falsehood, I love the greater public good of intelligent, thoughtful, accurate, reliable content on deep and important subjects — whether algebra, genomics, Buddhist scripture, ethics, cryptography, classical music composition, or parallel programming (to list just a few offerings coming up on the Coursera platform). It is a huge public good when millions and millions of people worldwide want to be more informed, educated, trained, or simply inspired.
  • The “In our meta-MOOC” seems to me to be an over complication, and is in fact describing the original MOOC (now referred to as cMOOC) based around concepts of Connectivism (Downes & Siemens) itself drawing on Communities of Practice theory of learning (Wenger). This work was underway in 2008 http://halfanhour.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/mooc-resurgence-of-community-in-online.html
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Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 5 Tasks to Teach Yourself to Teach with Technology - 7 views

nikpeachey.blogspot.com/...ch-yourself-to-teach-with.html

teachers teacher-training tools VSL web2.0

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Dec 10
     
    Nik Peachey's blog has 5 tasks for starters: "...anyone can download them and use them either to do teacher training or to develop their own ability to use technology."
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Adult ESL Training Videos » New American Horizons - 0 views

www.newamericanhorizons.org/training-videos

literacy adult_learners teacher-training teachers grammar reading VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Dec 11 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Dec 11
     
    For adult learners, mainly in the U.S., but also of generally wide application. These teacher training videos use the Whole-Part-Whole approach to teaching literacy.
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CALL Resources on Diigo for Teacher Training | TESOL Blog - 1 views

blog.tesol.org/...-on-diigo-for-teacher-training

teachers teacher-training VSL online_lessons

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 11 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 11 Nov 11
     
    "Do you Diigo? To be honest, I signed up but never used the online social-bookmarking tool. Fortunately, TESOL's Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Section has been busy bookmarking some great online resources. Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith shared the Diigo CALL IS Virtual Software List on the TESOL CALL Community: http://www.diigo.com/user/call_is_vsl. This list contains tons of resources on various teaching topics! However, this post focuses only on the teacher-training videos." A nice review and selection by Sandra Rogers for the TESOL Blog.
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Teacher Training Video (on the Arts) - 1 views

www.arts-impact.org/...teachtrainvideo.cfm

video drama art content-based teacher-training teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Oct 09
     
    "See the Arts Impact program in action as teachers participate in the summer institute and teach the arts in their classrooms. Hear comments from participating teachers and artist mentors." This is a very nice teacher training video if you are using drama and/or art in the classroom. Great ideas.
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Teaching Online - A Time Comparison - 0 views

www.westga.edu/...cavanaugh81.htm

research pedagogy teachers teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Teaching Online - A Time Comparison Joseph Cavanaugh, Ph.D. Associate Professor Of Economics Wright State University, LC joseph.cavanaugh@wright.edu Abstract The success of distance courses has prompted universities nationwide to increase the number of courses offered online. As the number of these courses has increased, the challenges involved in developing and offering them have become more apparent. One particular difficulty when teaching in an online format is that it can be more time-consuming than teaching in a traditional in-class format. This case study investigates this issue through the use of a detailed comparison of the time required to prepare and teach a traditional course, and that required for the same course presented in an online format. The additional time required by the online format is found to result largely from increased student contact and individualized instruction and not from the use of technology per se.
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