CREATIVE AND INDEPENDENT LEARNING THROUGH …Ideal language homework •Have a balance in the 4...
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CREATIVE AND INDEPENDENT LEARNING THROUGH HOMEWORKEngaging students outside the classroom
Puchan Liao 廖朴婵[email protected]
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The least efficient homework I found with my students
1. Copy Chinese characters according to stroke orders
2. Translate from English into Chinese or vice versa
3. Reading/listening/grammar exercises
4. *Writing a short essay or a paragraph
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How should we teach?
---- Watkins, C. et. al. (2002). ‘Effective Learning’ NSIN Research Matters 17 (Summer)
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Lesson hours for Mandarin in the secondary schools in the UK
• 1 - 2 hours per week in KS3
• 2 - 3 hours per week in KS4
• 5 - 6 hours per week in KS5
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My current school: limited learning time in class• Non-selective, boys’ school• Class size: 28-32• IT facilities: require update
Challenges for teachers:• Behaviour management• Short attention span• Homework problem• Lack of motivation
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Ideal language homework
• Have a balance in the 4 skills– listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• Differentiated tasks
• Active learning
• Opportunities for students to show their creativity
• Developing students’ independent learning skills
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My plan
Attract interests
Encourage lower achievers
Find role models
Form habits
Train skills
Shape the culture
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Mandarin Homework Menu
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Year 8 – In the Restaurant
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Year 8 – Weather
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Year 8 – Family
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Group work
Design a homework menu for one of the following GCSE topics:
Environment
Poverty/homelessness
Charity/voluntary work
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Students’ work
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Students’ feedback on the homework menu
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How much have they enjoyed working from the HW menu?
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How much the menu has helped them learn/consolidate Mandarin?
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Would they like to continue to receive homework like this?
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HOW TO ADAPT THIS MENU IN DAILY TEACHING AND
CLASS MANAGEMENT?
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Behaviour and Effort BingoLink three boxes in a row– one House PointComplete all the tasks to get a prize!
Have all stationaries (black pen, Mandarin book, glue stick,) x 3
Volunteer an answer 3 times in a lesson
Work on the starter worksheet in silence once sitting down x 3
Hand in homework on time x 3
Don’t get your name under the sad face x3
Complete DIRT for homework and assessments
Complete anextension task withoutbeing asked
Complete extra homework
Come to the Chinese club X3
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Encouraging form time contributions
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GCSE- Making sentences(Use the fewest sentences to score the highest.)
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GUIDED PROJECTS AT GCSE LEVELS
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Provide clear guidance and assessment criteriaHow to efficiently work in a group?
– Train students to divide work and take responsibility
Follow GCSE marking criteria:
– Communication and content
– Linguistic knowledge of Language
– Accuracy
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Examples (Year 9 projects)
1. Film project: My school
2. Magazine project: Film
3. Listening recording project: Living environment
https://padlet.com/puchanliao/4q333j1kup9r
4. Chinese culture project
https://padlet.com/puchanliao/crvoactgg6no
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授人以鱼不如授人以渔。
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Piper by Disney PIXAR