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1) Using Teaching as Inquiry to Support Secondary English Programme Planning
Planning Using Inquiry - English Online - an interactive tool created by MoE and English Online. Steps you through using a Teaching as Inquiry framework to guide your programme planning. Includes questions you should ask yourself before planning your programme, plus lots of supporting research, reading and viewing.
English Online - one stop shop of resources, pedagogical advice and teaching and learning sequences.
NZQA English Resources page - English specific resources on NZQA, this links to Level 1, you can then access Level 2 and 3 from here.
Beginning Teachers of English - a page of resources developed for a Beginning Teachers of English workshop held in 2010 at Kohia Teachers Centre for Team Solutions
Online workshops - just a few wiki workshops I have developed aimed at secondary teachers. Topics include how to set up a wiki, and differentiation workshops.
English Online listserves - join these! - great source of advice and support, you cn request resources and advice and get responses from over 700 English teachers across the country.
English Companion (American site) A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
Teachit - A free online library for English, media and drama teachers, offering quality worksheets, lesson plans, online lessons and links.
Web English Teacher - (American site) K-12 English Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans for reading, writing, and speaking on all grade levels
Creative Writing and Essay Resource.doc - This is a creative writing and essay writing resource that was originally developed to support school based workshops.
Planning your programme and units.doc - A rather large and meandering document with lots of tips, advice resources. Some original, some borrowed, some tweaked. This is the one that has the "checklists" of what needs to be covered for each type of unit at each level. It's a bit huge so you may like top skim, copy and paste the bits you want.
Part Two: Integrating e-learning in the English (and Media) classroom
Welcome to the 'Using ICTS in English' workshop page!
Information and communication technology (ICT) has a major impact on the world in which young people live. Similarly, e-learning (that is, learning supported by or facilitated by ICT) has considerable potential to support the teaching approaches outlined in the above section.
For instance, e-learning may:
assist the making of connections by enabling students to enter and explore new learning environments, overcoming barriers of distance and time
facilitate shared learning by enabling students to join or create communities of learners that extend well beyond the classroom
assist in the creation of supportive learning environments by offering resources that take account of individual, cultural, or developmental differences
enhance opportunities to learn by offering students virtual experiences and tools that save them time, allowing them to take their learning further.
Schools should explore not only how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching but also how it can open up new and different ways of learning.
Discussion Questions: How well is your present classroom providing for your students' future? With limited resources, how might we address this?
Discussion Questions: Do you agree? Why? Why not?
(Check out some of the responses online...or even add you own!)
Jigsaw Reading Activity: Each group will be given a section to read and then will extract what you see to be the most important key messages. You will then share your findings here.
Strategies for using mobile phones to support the teaching of visual and oral texts, presentation and speaking skills.
Activity: In pairs, you will have 15 minutes to complete the following:
Using your phone's voice recorder you will record a dramatic reading of 1-2 stanza's from the poem 'The Tree'.
Using your mobile phone you will then take still shots of (or film) a tree of your choice. Try to capture the feeling of the poem. Feel free to use your partner in the shots as well. Try to include a range of the following shot types: establishing shot, extreme close up, close up, low angle, high angle, long shot, extreme long shot.
NB. Unsure of the film terms? Check out this handy reference here
Extension Activity - Uploading your files to your laptop - One you have completed the task you will have another 10 minutes to attempt to upload your files to your and your partner's laptop using bluetooth. First turn on bluetooth on your phone and your laptop. Then locate your file on your phone, when you choose to send your file, an option should come up to send via bluetooth (not available on iphone). If your laptop doesn't have bluetooth you will need a bluetooth USB device.
Need more advice? Check out a handy tutorial here.
Bright idea - You can also use bluetooth to transfer files to your students' mobiles - imagine the possibilities!
Activity - Read this article about how Facebook was used to support teaching and learning in a history class. How do you think this could transfer to an English class? Discuss.
Activity: On your 'ICTs in English' wiki create links to any new sites you may want to use in the future. Then you might like to make a personal e-learning action plan! What can I use next week (and why and how will I use it) and what will I aim to use either later in the year or next year ( and what do I need to do to make it happen).
Activity: Share your ideas on Wallwisher!
Share the ideas you have taken away from today's session here.
Resources and reflection
Answering burning issues that have not been addressed
Fill in a workshop feedback survey here.
Keep up to date and join the English Online ICT English forum here.
3) Making an e-learning action plan!
Using ICTs in English - resources from 2010 workshop day run at Kohia Teachers Centre (Team Solutions)
Teaching and e-learning blog - the blog that I have developed to support the ICT PD contract at Epsom Girls Grammar School. Resources and strategies to support using ICTs in and beyond the classroom.
ICTs in English blog - the blog that compliments the English online ICTs in English listserve
Bio Claire Amos resides in Auckland, New Zealand. She is married and has two young daughters. She is the Director of e-learning at Epsom Girls Grammar School. She is also the facilitator of the ICTs in English community on English Online. In 2010 Claire held the position of Auckland Secondary English Facilitator at Team Solutions at the University of Auckland. Claire has taught English for 13 years in a range of secondary schools, most recently holding the position of Head of English Faculty at Auckland Girl’s Grammar School. She has worked at a national level in assessment and curriculum in English as a part of the writing team for the redevelopment of the NCEA standards and as a marker for NCEA external standards. In 2009 Claire was a Ministry of Education e-fellow for which she undertook a study of how ICTs can be used to support literacy in and beyond the English classroom.
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