AfaP Fremdsprachmodul, Rudolf Steiner Schule-Basel, 17 - 18 - 19 April 2015

Friday, 17 April, 10.30 - 12.00

15-minute Input

- Finding the rhythm of verse

- What in language teaching makes the Waldorf approach what it is

- The thing about being "artistic"

Then we do practical work on following topics:

- we practise two or three practical aspects of Story-telling 

- we practise introducing a poem (Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Yeats ...)

Saturday, 18 April, 10.30 - 12.00

15-minute input

- pupils' varying readiness to do some solid work

- pupils' varying ability to follow a train of thought or sequence of actions

- ways of involving pupils with the tasks we have planned for them

Then we do practical work on following topics:

- we rehearse a scene from Shakspeare

- we plan (grammar, writing, reading) exercises 

so as to maximise students' involvement and responsibility

Discussion topics:

- Do we actually plan MEMORABILITY when preparing lessons and tests?

(we remember 0-10% of what teachers said; 10+% of what we have read; 20+% of what was visually demonstrated; 40+% of discussion content; 70+% of what we practised doing; 90% of what we explained, demonstrated, taught others)

- "Tell me, I' ll forget; Show me, I' ll remember; Involve me, I' ll learn."

Sunday, 19 April, 14.00 - 16.00

15-minute input: 

- choosing a reader 

- literary texts, feature-based articles

- silent or communal classroom reading

Then we do practical work on particular text excerpts (one per group of two)

(R.L.Stevenson, Dickens, Ray Bradbury, an Arab Tale "The Boy Judge", 

- introducing a passage, page or chapter (pre-reading activities)

- ways of dealing with reading texts (activities during reading) 

- post-reading activities (discussion, writing tasks, finding aspects of the story such as plot and theme, exposition, rising action, complication, crisis, antagonist, climax, dénouement, moral)

We choose one or two of the following discussion topics :

- effectiveness (careful time-content planning)

- teacher talk, classroom dialogue

- social learning (pupils working in groups)

- showing, explaining, linking topics

- lively interaction

- teacher behavious, language and variety of methods as role model

- allowing pupils' need for inner time-out

- continuous discourse for continuous development

- pupils need to feel they are being prepared well for tests, that they are learning

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On 17 mars 2015, at 17:36, gerwin mader <gjm@bluewin.ch> wrote:

Liebe Teilnehmer/innen des 3. Blocks im Fachmodul Fremdsprachen

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Alles Gute und viel Erfolg

wünscht euch

Gerwin J. Mader

Praxisleitung der AfaP in Dornach

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