Could anyone help me with new ideas that are used in teaching especially in warm-up activities????

Question

we all know that as teachers, we need to change the traditional ways that are used in teaching especially in teaching a second language for learners. I am a teacher-to-be who teaches English for children and young learners. I am here asking for new. creative, and unusual ideas to teaching my students and encourage them to participate. Long ago and till now i hear that second language learners believe that learning a new language is the most difficult task in the world. How I could change their opinion, I think by selecting a new ideas an teaching?????
soooooooooo, plz help me!

Answer 1

Your choice of warm-up activity should supplement your communicative, skills and linguistic goals for your lesson that day. When you set your objectives for a particular lesson, think about student-centered ways to guage their current level of knowledge and get their minds focused on the day's ideas. In general, I like to use activation activities that ultimately lead the students to realize where their knowledge falls short, so that they will understand the purpose of the day's lesson. I also like to use activities that they can later compare to the work they produce during the Production phase of the lesson (not saying that I always follow the PPP model), so something that can be adapted but still compared is good.

I think the most important thing as an educator is to have a thorough knowledge of WHY you're doing something in the classroom. The why is much more important than the what.

Answer 2

If you want to teach young children anything......................................
#1. Don't indoctrinate them with left wing propaganda.
#2. George Bush is not Satan and the USA is not hell.
#3. If they get something wrong tell them it is wrong...their hurt feelings will recover much faster than their empty brains will when they are passed to the next grade level.
#4. Encourage parents of your students not to give their male children drugs to help you control your classroom. Amphetamines lead to depression and that leads to mass slaughter of other students, with guns and bombs from said students.
#5. Hopefully you are the adult. Students are little empty vessels that need to be trained. Act like an adult and don't cower to their little outrages. If the administration won't back you up....seek employment at a private facility.
#6. If you are under the age of 35, you were most likely trained at an institution that taught you just the opposite of these last five instructions I just gave you. In that case you most likely will end up mentally and morally defeated by these little guys and gals you will teach. The system you work in will be the most challenging foe though.

Answer 3

I taught a first grader hebrew one-on-one last year, and it was difficult for him, so we decided to play a game. In his room, he had a little basketball net and the way it worked was that he had to tell a little story (ex: the girl walked the dog. the dog ran away. the girl found the dog.) and then make a shot. If he got it in, he got a point. Then it was my turn. And he had to tell me if my sentence was correct. I would make mistakes on purpose and he had to catch them, or I would get to shoot a basket (I would let him know I made a mistake if he didn't realize afterwards).

If you want more of a classroom-setting type idea, then you should read a lot of stories with them/ to them. Picture books, if they're young. It keeps kids interested and even though it's hard, they want to know what comes next.

Answer 4

Though I teach a higher grade and all academics, not ESOL, I choose to use PowerPoint Presentations for my warm-up activity, Instructional Focus, and presenting lessons.

The PowerPoints can be animated with English/Spanish words or phrases to enhance learning. Your students will be engaged, they will retain what they have seen, and they will tell their friends which will reinforce their learning ability.

Just one thought!

Answer 5

you have a bottle of air (that one is trouble-free) and a bottle of CO2 with thermometers in each and every. positioned them under a similar warmth source and notice if there is any difference. If there isn't it only is going to instruct that the greenhouse effect isn't as clean shrink as some human beings think of.