Submitted by tomash on 16 April, 2012 - 11:22.
Workshops by Professor Elizabeth Adams on lesson planning and teaching multilingual groups
Monday, April 23, 11:30 – 14:45
Room 601A
“DRAWING THE SHAPE OF A GOOD LESSON”
A SERIES OF PARTICIPATIVE, INTERACTIVE CLASSES / WORKSHOPS EXPLORING SOME OF THE ELEMENTS WHICH MAKE FOR INTERESTING, MEANINGFUL AND MOTIVATING LANGUAGE LESSONS.
- Relevant aspects of classroom management and lesson planning.
- A brief exploration of how drawing and metaphor might be used to find ways of conceptualizing a “ good lesson” and also to stimulate the communicative use of language in the classroom
- Creativity in the classroom.
The session would be given using visual presentations and various activities designed to involve students and collect feedback from them on issues arising from the sessions.
Wednesday, April 25, 11:30 – 13:00
“FROM MONOLINGUAL TO MULTILINGUAL TEACHING”
“Drawing on the creative possibilities of working with multi lingual groups”
PARTICIPATIVE, INTERACTIVE SESSION/ WORKSHOP EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES OF WORKING WITH MULTI LINGUAL GROUPS, BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH SUCH GROUPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN.
- Background and teaching context
- Monolingual v. Multilingual teaching
- Practical implications
- Activities and approaches
- An example of a popular and successful project carried out with students of Ingles Instrumental Avanzado ( a subject attended by Erasmus students of different nationalities and Spanish students)
The session would be given using visual presentations and a variety of activities designed to encourage interaction, to involve students, and to collect feedback from them on the issues arising from the session.
Biodata
Professor Elizabeth Adams teaches at the University of Jaén in Spain. Her interests include teaching methodologies and approaches which maximise and enrich the teaching / learning experience in general, and more specifically, the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Links between teaching processes and creative processes in art is an area of particular interest, rising out of a long experience of teaching both art & design and EFL in a variety of different situations. She has published various articles on topics such as creativity in teaching, the use of poetry in language classrooms, humanistic and holistic approaches to teaching and learning as well as the use of imagery and imagination in teaching and learning.
dr hab. Paweł Scheffler
