ELT Cast

ELT Cast

By Benjamin L. Stewart, PhDEducationCourses
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ELT Cast episodes

  • Storytelling Assignment for a Writing I Class
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    Show Notes
    In this episode, I provide an excerpt of a class that is designed to assist English language learners - at an A2 level - to complete a story (one paragraph long) that is inspired by an image (painting or a picture) of a cabin in nature. 
    Content Objectives
    Build vocabulary related to nature: objects, animals, emotions, five senses, etc.
    Gain awareness of paragraph unity (staying on topic), coherence (organizational patterns), and cohesion (transitions)
    Gain awareness of sentence types: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex
    Gain awareness of parts of speech, types of phrases, and types of clauses
    Gain awareness of comma usage: serial comma, compound sentence, complex sentence, sentence connectors, introductory phrases (five words or more), and appositives
    Language (Linguistic) Objectives
    Rheme and theme
    Transitions
    Comma usage
    Descriptive texts using adjectives and prepositional phrases
    Simple, compound, and complex sentences
    Pedagogical Notes

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    22 min
  • Teachers Finding a Work Flow
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    Problem: Lean Teaching… how efficient, effective, and engaging is our teaching practice?
    Workflow...
    Keep in mind the following three things when considering one’s workflow: learner to learner engagement, instructor to learner engagement, and learner to outside expert engagement.
    Google Classroom
    Google Docs
    Google Gradebook
    Google Photos
    Eportfolio

    Sources: Lean Manufacturing - Wikipedia; Lean Thinking (Womack & Jones, 1996)

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    16 min
  • Instructional-Learning Episodes That Promote a Dynamic Classroom Experience
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    Instructional-learning episodes: knowledge-skill; metacognition-cognition; far (new context)-near (similar context) transfer; reproductive (less complex)-productive (more complex)
    Class
    Essential question: How does a song communicate with you? (far-near transfer)
    Brainstorm individually: emotions, people, events, etc. as a list. (knowledge - writing to understand)
    Convert brainstorming list to Mindmap and take a picture (Cognition, learning strategy, knowledge)
    Convert Mindmap to first and subsequent drafts
    Work/Upload information to Google docs
    Feedback - few students uploaded their paragraphs until the very end


    Sources: Elshout-Mohr, Hout-Wolters, & Broekkamp, 1999; Volman & Ten Dam, 2011

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    17 min
  • Teacher Learning Cast (TLC): How does a teacher hinder or facilitate the learning process?
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    Show Notes
    How can a teacher decide whether to break down the input into step-by-step activities or start by challenging students by asking them to perform a task where input proficiency is required? (Bottom up, top down, task based, structural content based)
     
    Task-based supplementation: Achieving high school textbook goals through form focused interaction: Conclusions: “Results” have historically been defined and measured by “objective” language tests - standardized tests.  However, focusing strictly on form (not meaning, use, discourse, culture, etc.) ignores the fact that we have no true way of knowing exactly what a learner does specifically that leads to language acquisition. Also, a learners’ internal grammar goes up and down… down in the case when internalizing new content.
     

    Conclusions: Task-based learning extremely effective when attending the personal, affective, and social development of the learner.
    Instructional-learning episodes: reproductive (less complex)-productive (more complex), knowledge-skill, metacognition-cognition, far (new context)-near (similar context) transfer

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Why In the Classroom?
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    In the Classroom: Why In the Classroom?
    In many ways, episode #25 is the “first” in the informal reflective discussions I have planned for this channel related to curriculum, assessment, instruction, and educational technologies.  My intention of this channel is to provide the means for me to share with the public my interests and perspectives around what I read (theory, research, internet, etc.) and my own teaching practice.  My hope is that others will voice additional perspectives on similar topics by addressing through line questions related to each episode.

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    3 min
  • Teacher Learning Cast (TLC): Task-Based Learning
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    In this episode we discuss instructional-learning episodes (task-based learning) by way of example.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Teacher Learning Cast (TLC): Flow in the Classroom
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    In this episode we discuss establishing flow in the classroom.

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    58 min
  • Teacher Learning Cast (TLC): Google Classroom
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    In this episode we discuss Google Classroom and WhatsApp in the classroom.

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    1 hr 13 min

About ELT Cast

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ELT Cast is an educational podcast of shared teaching and learning practices and perspectives as an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher trainer. Topics include 1) becoming a more effective,…