Nov 19, 2014

Class Reflection Noticed by Ülle. Comment Oct. 31, 2014

In the seminar several teaching methods were explained by participants. The following technics had been presented as useful hints for everyday work keeping the students in the role of active learners
- connect new information with students´ everyday life by asking about their experience (list the facts already known) and giving examples (put in, get out)

- keep in dialog with the auditorium during the lecture: speak to the auditorium like to  important partners and  future colleagues (put in, get out)
- usage of pair and group work (try out)
- usage of concept maps and matching exercises (get out). Try Matching Exercise Creator http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/test/matchmaker10.htm
- Ask the students to paraphrase information in text (try out).

Design of teaching-learning process (item, class, course) in four steps:
get out – put in – try out – review

Three basic questions in the course (curriculum, topic, assignment) design:
Why?
How?
What?

A way to describe the learners is to find the factors that determine their reactions and to analyse them in two groups (Stanley N. Herman, 1970) as a model of an iceberg:
-          Formal aspects (overt): goals, technologies of an organization, structures, policies and procedures, services and products, financial resources
-          Informal aspect (covert): attitudes, beliefs, assumptions, perceptions, attitudes, feelings, values, informal interactions, group norms.
The author very much emphasizes on the importance of having a balance between these two aspects.

An informativ video about the Schengen area:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y91IHg72sls

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