Leanne showed the DVD from her school on how they celebrated the
Halloween holiday.
Jimmy and Alenda shared the TPR game for teaching new vocabulary like:
Brave, cute, honest, shy, etc. They also showed how to play a Bingo game differently.
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~ Introduction of Anita again to everyone.
~ Group discussion on Team Teaching questions collected from last
meeting. All participants were divided into 3 groups focusing on:
Ⅰ. Planning-
Ⅱ. In the classroom
Ⅲ. Team Relationship
Group Ⅰ : They picked question No. 1,3,5,7 in that category. Their discussion
on these questions are: Set a routine time for face-to-face meeting and strictly stick to the discussion. Ask each other questions—any questions about the class, students, textbooks. Asking is also a reminder for each other. They also gave a suggestion for less communication time: put a notebook on a certain desk, whenever who wants to talk or leave message to Fulbright teachers they can just write something on it.
Group Ⅱ : They talked about the discipline in classroom. Some said that a formal
introduction of Fulbright teachers is very important so the students accept them as a REAL teacher, too. Some would like to separate class into 2 parts(LET with the basic part, Fulbrighters with the advanced part) so teachers can have better control of the classroom management. Others shared that they acted out a skit which showed how a well-behaved student can get rewards from teacher so the students can have a clear idea of following the rules. And different teaching style can benefit students in different ways.
Group Ⅲ: They said that LETs would like to learn something new from the Fulbright
teachers. And the Fulbrighters can try something and then they two together can so some adjustment to fit students’ need. When the two teachers have different opinions, just give each other a chance to give it a try. Being patient to each other and even to students is also very important. Another thing is to ‘ work on the problem!’
Outcome-based teaching: Dr. Sroda explained:
When two teachers worked as a team, two may know what their goals are but
NEVER talked about it! Something to start with in order to make it easy is to :
Write them down. Make them explicit as possible. For example: What do we want our students to achieve in terms of language skill? What do we want our students to obtain by the end of this semester?
Dr. Sroda suggested that all teams keep working on the outcomes and bring the list of outcome of the team to Joanne Tseng at the teacher’s center on 6th, Dec. our next meeting.
Extra comments:
1. Please hand in the weekly reflection and attendance on time. Ariel will send an e-mail with a chart shows who’s missing which week. Please do remember to bring those missing ones to Ariel on the next meeting day, i.e. Monday, 6th,Dec.
2. The Happy Squad is going to present a show on 3rd and 4th of Dec. They would like to invite all the teachers to go to see the show and cheer for them.