Building a castle teaching writing through teacher

performance

Colin Walker Professor at Hoseo University

forward

Above Average People

Theron Muller - MASH Academic Publishing

Greg Hadley – supervisor in the Birmingham MA

programme

Ben Cecil – my Geography 100

professor

Contents

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• 1) The writing box• 2) Teaching Performance • 3) Technology• 4) Evaluation and creativity_____________________________________

1) The Writing Box

Who Write a sentence about this person.(opinion, the person’s job, something unique you know about them)

1

2

3

4

Topic SentenceClosing Sentence

#1

#2

#3

#4

Who was born in Japan?

Topic sentence and Closing sentences.

1. Lee Myung Bak

He is the current president of South Korea, and is famous for building the 천계천 stream.

2. Kim Yuna She is a Korean figure skater, who won gold at the Olympics.

3. Ban Ki Moon He is a high-ranking official at the United Nations.

4. Jim Paek He is the first Korean to play in the National Hockey League.

Topic Sentence Korea has many famous people.

Closing Sentence

Koreans are awesome.

Famous KoreansWhat Famous Korean foods

Who Famous sites in Korea What Unique facts about Korea

Korean Food

Famous places in Korea

Unique Facts

What Famous Korean people

The Writing Box summarized

• ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’ – Steve Jobs. Start from the middle (eg body sentences) Add

topic and closing sentences later.

2) Teaching performance

Zoltán Dörnyei

___________________Dörnyei, Z. (1998) Demotivation in language learning. Paper presented at the TESOL ’98 Congress, Seattle, WA, March cited in Dörnyei, Z. and Ushioda, E. (2011) Teaching and Researching Motivation. 2nd Edition. Pearson Education Limited. Great Britain. P. 148

What is teaching performance?

1)Relevant2)Interesting 3)Meets student expectancy4)Satisfaction

Crookes and Schmidt (1991) way to motivate students:

_____________________Crookes, G. and Schmidt, R. (1991) 'Motivation: Reopening the research agenda'. Language Learning 41(4): pp. 469-512.

Walker, C. (2011) Managing student motivation through teaching performance University of Birmingham, CELS Essay Bank (in press).

Teaching Performance: making lessons that are 1) Relevant, 2) Interesting , 3)Meet student expectancy, and 4) give satisfaction

Student rapport

Leadership – supportive error

feedback

Encourage students to make good mistakes

Why is teaching performance important?

• Ben Cecil (Dean of Niagara College)

Students: L2 learning outside the class

Teachers: it can advance your career

3) Technology

_______________________De Mente, B.L (2004) Korean Business Etiquette. Tuttle Publishing. Singapore.

Antithesis: “I separate my private life from my work life”

Chris Giblin uses twitter to encourage student writing

Special Surprise

김다솔 – It’s not a duty to be a beauty

4)Evaluation• Show the students what you are looking for. I like writing that

has:

OrganizationGrammar ExpectancyCreativity

/10 /5 /5 /10

Summing up• The Writing Box – helps students organize ideas

• Teaching Performance:• Student rapport• Encourage students to make good mistakes• Leadership – supportive error feedback

• Technology is awesome!

• Evaluation • Encourage student creativity

Oh and 1 more thing…

Contact

@colinjerwalker

colinjerwalker@gmail.com

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Colin Walker