Thursday, March 28, 2019

TTP2019 in Canada



Advice from TTP Alumni:  Elementary   Secondary
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 TTP2019 in Canada, eh? Map

Mississauga Overview   Demographics
   Malls
   Other

News & Guides


Events & Tickets
Recreation
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Teaching Demonstration #1


Teaching Demonstration Ahoy!

  • 25-40 minute recorded lesson demonstration (mock teaching)
     Demonstrate beginning, ending, and most lesson activities.
  • Should include some type of experimentation 
    • Can include aspects of your mini-presentation if additional components and/or something new is included

  • Sources of Inspiration/Experimentation: 
    • Classmate Mini-presentations, TTP courses, TTP Kitchen posts and Activity Sources, Resource Books, and/or TTP goals. Must be somewhat unique within your TTP class

  • Priorities: Experimental, Realistic, Replicable, Demonstrates TEE (assessment criteria)

Teaching English in English - Classroom English Megalist  *  Checking for Understanding (ICQ & CCQ)  More TEE Resources

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Monday, March 25, 2019

Cultural Resources for Overseas Presentations


Earlier Presentations 
- Jannie & Yoni - Korean Cultural Presentation
- Jenny & Jiyoung - Overseas Presentation 
- Jieun & Kangcheol - Overseas PPT
- Gawon - Hanbok
- Jenny - Korean Culture
- Eunjin -  South Korea Introduction
- Claire - Busan
- Richard - Korea
- Emily - Culture Quiz   (white background)
- Korean Language Handout
Assorted Facts About Korea
Other Presentations
CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
Proverbs, Sayings, & Folks Tales
Blog Posts
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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Extensive Reading - Reading Process

Partner Reading Observation

  • How often do they move their eyes?
  • How would you describe their eye movements - smooth, jumpy, flowing, other?
  • What else did you observe?


Reading Processes
People have a visual field of about 120 degrees in front of them, which contains three regions for viewing information:   the foveal, the parafoveal, and the peripheral. The foveal region is the area in which we think of as being in focus, providing us the greatest visual acuity. The foveal region is only 2 degrees of what we are looking at; in terms of reading, that would be about 6 to 8 letters. Beyond the foveal is the parafoveal, which extends to 15 to 20 letters. Everything else is considered to be in the peripheral region.

We do NOT read letter by letter but rather by recognizing whole words by sight. To illustrate the point we use this 'fi yuo cna raed tihs' handout. This is why comics are often harder to read for second language learners of English because they are in capital letters giving no tall/tail letter patterns that the mind uses to recognize words.

    There are three basic eye movement processes involved in reading
  • fixations
  • saccadic jumps
  • regressions

    Slower readers have longer fixations, shorter saccades and more regressions. Hence fluency activities aim to decrease the time of fixations, increase the length of saccades to an appropriate level and reduce the number of regressions. Good readers therefore read at 250-300 words per minute. If people are reading faster it is termed 'expeditious reading' which is like skimming or scanning.
Videos
The original General Service List of 2000 words was created in 1953 by Michael West and this is used by most graded readers in the development of their level system.
This list includes the list of 300 sight words which cover 50~70% of most texts.
(Dolch Sight Words About   Word Lists)

The New General Service List is an updated version that includes 2818 words. It is a "list of the most important high-frequency words useful for second language learners of English, ones which gives the highest possible coverage of English texts with the fewest words possible."Newgeneralservicelist.org

NGSL Quizlets
50 word blocks here
100 word blocks here
560 word blocks here

TestYourVocab.com
    Findings: 
    • The most common vocabulary size for foreign test-takers is 4,500 words
    • Foreign test-takers tend to reach over 10,000 words by living abroad
    • Foreign test-takers learn 2.5 new words a day while living in an English-speaking country


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      Wednesday, March 13, 2019

      End of Week#2 Tasks


      Preparing for       Mini-presentation#1

      TILL Tasks (Week 1 & 2)
      • Create a Blogger Blog, post something
      • Create a Quizlet Account and your own Quizlet with the title 'My Name TTP Vocab'
      • Create a Diigo Account (you'll need to use Jeffnet [password: topsecret] or your own hotspot)
      • Add URL's to  TTP 2019 Account Info Doc

      Reflective Journaling

      Extensive Reading
      • Enjoy .... and Update your ER Log
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      Sunday, March 10, 2019

      Teaching Workshop - Preparing for the first mini-presentation


      Your Task: Find a specific aspect of teaching that you’d like to share and/or workshop. This can be...

      • A Method - (e.g. speaking jigsaw, flipped classroom, fluency writing, start with a Bang!)
      • A Tool/Resource - (e.g. non-naughty pop songs, Class123, Smartboard)
      • A Language Skill - (e.g. past perfect progressive, understanding World English accents, asking for directions)
      You can get ideas from your own teaching and observations, something you’ve experienced at a workshop (including TTP), the TTPKitchen, your TTP Goals, or any other source. You will have 2+ hours of TW time to research this and prepare a mini-presentation. We will start presentations Week#3.
      This is an opportunity for you to share and develop something potentially useful to you and  your colleagues. Have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh, I’d like to try ‘x’ in my class, but just don’t have the time”? Now you do :)

      Sign up:     Elementary    Secondary 


      Please add your brainstormed ideas to these document:
      2019 Brainstorm Topics - Secondary                 2019 Brainstormed Topics - Elementary

      You can see brainstormed ideas from last year here:
      2018 Brainstorm-Secondary          2018 Brainstorm - Elementary

      You can also get ideas from the TTP Kitchen
      Create your own Mini-presentation Overview Form, by clicking on that link and selecting 'File/Make a Copy'. Save that document in your Teaching Demonstration Folder.
        Example Overviews from past sessions:   Secondary   Elementary

        ----In-class Resources----

        Videos
        Sites to fine video examples of words and phrases
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