Overall Final Assignment Paulo Lucio Scheffer Lima 1

Name: Paulo Lcio Scheffer Lima Overall Final Assignment_Track 1 Brazilian English Teachers Program Assignment Due: February
21 , 2013 During your time in the U.S., you collected content and materials from Topeka, KS, Lawrence, KS, Kansas City, Missouri, and Independence, Missouri. You read about and discussed methodologies that encourage active classroom participation. You learned about technology you can use to make your language teaching more effective. You took language classes to continue to work on your English language skills and you also learned about creating assessment tools. This is your chance to demonstrate what you are taking away from your professional experiences in the U.S. Directions: Use this document to answer each question below. You may also refer to the grading rubric when answering these questions. When you finish, please post your answers to your Weebly page. 1. Describe some of the content you collected or some of the teaching materials you created since you have been in Lawrence? I collected a great amount of printed materials during the field trips, in all the places I visited in Kansas and Missouri. Among these are booklets, brochures, magazines, handouts, flyers and even a few books about Kansas and its history. I plan to use them in my classes through a content-based approach. I have also learned about several technological tools that I will start to use in my lessons to motivate students and improve their participation. TED talks, for instance, will be used to make them mirror native speaker speech models; Voice Thread will be used to evaluate students pronunciation; and Weebly and blogs will be used to display lesson contents, comments, videos, activities and games that students will be able to access anywhere, in a more motivating way.
2. You have been developing a lesson on at least one topic from the content and materials you have collected. What are some outcomes and goals for a lesson on the material you collected in Kansas and Missouri? The goals of my lesson on the Kansas fight against slavery are: to help students learn basic vocabulary related to politics, human rights, American political-geographic division and slavery; to expose students to the simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs, as a continuation to a previous introductory simple past lesson; to promote critical thinking in English about slavery and methods used in the fight against it. After the class the students should be able to understand the name of some American states, their location on the US map and the importance of some events in each of them; recognize the simple past ed and irregular forms; read a passage about the Kansas territory antislavery fight understanding the gist through cognate words; compare the American antislavery movements to the Brazilian ones.
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3. Explain the methodology you would use to present a lesson on your topic? I would use a content-based approach with practice in the four skills, starting from a listening activity using a video about John Brown and moving on to reading comprehension, using an adapted text about the Kansas fight against slavery. Then students would have some controlled practice in speaking and writing. For the speaking activity, the class would be split into Kansans and Missourians and students would hold a trial in which the imaginary defendant would be slavery. Depending on the group in which they are inserted, learners would complete one of the following sentences orally: Slavery must be abolished because or Slavery must be maintained because. As this lesson would be given to a class with very little knowledge of English, students would get help from the teacher to compose their sentences. The team with more sentences in a short time would win. As a wrap up, students would write some or all the reasons worked on orally, producing a small paragraph explaining both Kansans and Missourians points of view.
4. Explain how you would integrate technology into the lesson? I would use Quizlet and Prezi to present vocabulary. First, I would prepare the students for the listening activity showing its important vocabulary through Quizlet flashcards. Then, students would use Quizlet to play vocabulary recognition games, in which I would also check they are mastering the spelling. As a pre-reading activity, I would show students the vocabulary using Prezi, using pictures for the words fight, much, some, spread and some American states. Prezi would be particularly useful to zoom in and out of states, giving students a spatial idea. I would also ask students to deliver their written sentences as comments in a blog. I might even depending on the students motivation ask them to record their sentences using Voice Thread. 5. Language Fluency: Use Voice Thread to record your answers to these questions: (a) How does your lesson promote active participation among your students? (b) How does your lesson promote oral fluency among your students? (Push the button below.) 6. Describe an assessment you would use to measure student learning. All the students activities will be assessed and each assessment will be used to signpost the teachers next move. Students participation in the Quizlet flashcard game will show if they are ready for the listening activity; their answers to the listening and reading exercises will also be considered and used to see if the corresponding activity has been assimilated or should be repeated; their oral delivery of sentences for or against slavery should tell the teacher when to move to the final activity (maybe even to do totally at home), which will be the most formal assessment of the lesson that they will have, writing the sentences produced previously.
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