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With the best of intentions, we go from one workshop to another, learning theories and the most ‘up-to-date’ methodologies in education to date. However, once we return to our classrooms, we are often at a loss as to how to apply these very valid methodologies to our curriculums.
This scaffold is an effective way of introducing critical information at the beginning of, for example, a task-based lesson. It’s easy to prepare, it’s interactive and dynamic. It also uses more 3-dimensional space of the classroom than usual so it will appeal to students of all ages, if only for its novelty.*
The activity I present here is inspired by a very desperate music teacher who, though facing the last few days of the school year, still has a unit on Romanticism to teach and students’ minds to captivate since they are already mentally and emotionally at the beach and summer parties.
*See Dave and Jane Willis’ Doing Task-based Teaching for more ideas like this.
Step by step: CLIL DEFINITIONS DATES
- Divide determined information from the unit you are about to begin into two-three categories (1) dates, 2) terms, 3) definitions.
- Write the dates, terms and definitions on separate pieces of paper. With the definitions, leave blanks where a date or the identifying word for the term should be placed.
- Hang the pieces of paper on clothes lines from the walls of the classroom so they are hanging down but also within comfortable sight range of your students.*
4. Give each pair of students a worksheet with images and lines next to each image (see below for an example). (Remember, every time we include images and text, we help students double their learning.)
5. In pairs, students work together to transfer information from the pieces of paper on the clothes line to their worksheets. To reinforce reading, listening and writing, students take turns reading the information while the other listens and writes. They are both involved in looking at the pieces of paper to identify where the information goes on their worksheets.
6. When finished, students read through the definitions and make a timeline of the information according to the dates and then write 4-5 sentences synthesising the information. (See example below.**)
Definitions And Dates To Hang On Clothesline
Worksheet With Images For Pairs To Add Definitions And Dates
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