| Visual and Active Method of Teaching See also: VisualAndActive.com |
| The Visual and Active Method of Teaching English as a Second Language has the following elements Reflection Social Learning Focus on the students’ interests Real Work Bring in experts These elements are important in almost every learning situation. The Visual and Active Method of Teaching and Learning is described on the Internet at VisualAndActive.com Learning Styles are described at MathForArtists.com Sources: Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences, Intelligence Reframed Dennis Littky, The Big Picture: Education is Everybody’s Business Reflection and Social Learning It is helpful to give students a chance / an opportunity to thnk about the previous lesson. After a field trip, a CD is made and enough copies for HALF of the students are distributed. PAIRS of students sit at computers to select photos and write sentences about the photos. Some photos are printed, sentences are put on the photos and a book is created for later REFLECTION. Focus on the students’ interests Go ahead... leave the textbook and go to the internet. Ask students to describe their city, country, profession, favorite sport... Real Work Phil’s “Three Store” Rule Phil tells students to stop in at least THREE STORES to ask, “I don’t want to eat in a touristy restaurant. Where would you eat lunch?” Procedure: 1. Tell students to go to a café 2. On the way to the café, the students stop at three stores and say, “Excuse me. I’m looking for a nice restaurant – can you recommend a restaurant on Las Olas?” Students should write down the directions and repeat them to be sure that they understand the directions. 3. The teacher waits at the café. Bring in experts Videotape the expert while he or she talks. Then record the questions that the students ask on the day…. The next day, allow the students to play, pause and stop to ask questions about the vocabulary used by the previous day’s speaker.. |
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| Dennis Littky in The Big Picture: Education is Everybody's Business writes about the importance of introducing REAL WORK... not just "writing to practice making sentences." 1. Write an email message to contact a penpal bradstow2@yahoo.co.uk 2. Create a web site on oocities.com 3. Write a letter to the editor letters@sun-sentinel.com heraldEd@herald.com 4. Make a short video using a digital camera, record the video onto a CD for review (and the student's portfolio) or put the video on the internet (youTube.com). |
| This web page shows an example of using the Visual and Active Method in the ESOL** classroom. Click below for further explanation. **English for Speakers of Other Languages. |
| This research finding shows why you should support the CAMPAIGN for Visual and Active Classrooms |
| This research finding shows why you should support the CAMPAIGN for Visual and Active Classrooms |