BÀI THU HOẠCH SAU ĐỢT TẬP HUẤN PHƯƠNG PHÁP GIẢNG DẠY VỚI GV HỘI ĐỒNG ANH

REPORT AFTER THE COURSE

BY VU THI THU THUY- HAI HAU A HIGH SCHOOL

I am so happy when I finish my teaching methodology course with British Council, especially my devoted teacher, Barry Naruk. I have gained a wide range of teaching techniques and the most impressive is “Find someone who wrote it”. It is my dream to incorporate as many techniques as possible to make my teaching lesson plans become more and more interesting, and it seems to be coming true.

“Find someone who wrote it” is a kind of easy and extremely effective practice. Teachers can use this kind of activity in all grades.It can help students  a lot with their English language proficiency. Students can improve all 4 skills in learning languages, listening-speaking-reading-writing through this kind of activity. Moreover, it can make students become more active and confident in communication. From my point of view, this technique can be considered the excellent way of communicative-based learning. Language learners in this kind of studying environment can learn and practise the target language through interaction with one another and the instructor, and through the use of the language both in class and ouside of class. Learners converse about personal experiences with partners, and instructors teach topics outside of the realm of traditional grammar, in order to promote language skills in all types of situations. This approach also claims to encourage learners to incorporate their personal experiences into their language learning environment, and to focus on the learning experience in addition to the learning of the target language. Furthermore, the goal of language education is the ability to communicate in the target language. This is in contrast to previous views in which grammatical competence was commonly given top priority. This kind of method also focuses on the teacher being a facilitator, rather than an instructor.Interestingly, this approach is a non-methodical system that does not use a textbook series to teach the target language, but rather works on developing sound oral,verbal skills prior to reading and writing. Actually, when working with our enthusiastic teacher, Barry Naruk, he always provided us a lot of tasks, techniques and required us to complete and practise.Thanks to the teacher, I have boosted ample useful techniques in teaching in general and this kind of method is my cup of tea.

My students are so eager to practise this activity when I adapt it in my lesson plans. This is marvelous! After 6-week course, what I have earned is the idea that If teachers of English want to compose interesting lesson plans, they must apply communicative approach  that is the only way. Every lecture, we should know how to motivate students to practise their target language effectively, because “Practice makes Perfect”.

I love the saying that “The more hard-working, the luckier ”, and I have followed it to achieve my goal in teaching English. And here are the steps to use the technique” Find someone who wrote it”

• Instruction: (work individually)

• Prepare a pen and a piece of paper
• Write down 3 things you like doing most everyday
• Only one minute for you
• Fold it up and throw it in front of the class
• Stand up and pick up one
• Throw it back if it’s yours
• Walk round and find who wrote it. Ask them why they like doing that 3 things.

• ICQs:

• Show me your pen and paper
• Work alone or in groups
• Write or talk
• What you write
• How many things
• How much time
• Stand or sit
• Walk or sit to find who wrote
• What you do when you find out the writer.

• Let’s start.