Workshop 3 Building Routines in English classrooms

Workshop 3

Workshop Title: Building Routines in English classrooms

 

Workshop Description: In this workshop participants will learn how to build routines by collaborating with colleagues, they will be able to share and apply essential elements of routine of the lesson.

 

Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction

1. Gain attention
  1. Warm up  students : Sing  ‘Hello Song’ together  as a greeting

Hello everybody how are you today

It is time to move your body and learn and play

Hello to my teachers how are you today

I am gonna listen to what you say

 shake your head yes shake your head no

Let your arms up ,put your arms down

Let your arms up and shake it round again

  1. Gain their attention with a quote ‘Tell me and I forget, Teach and I remember, Involve me and I learn’
  2. Elicit participants’ responses about what the quote means...

2. Inform learners of objectives
  1. TWBAT to use effective activities to make routines of the lesson
  2. They will differentiate types of lesson activities and use them in appropriate parts of the lesson.

 

3. Stimulate recall of prior learning
  1. Mini-lecture on benefits of using routine activities on the quality of the lesson (learners feel less anxious as steps are predictable, they act more independently as they have already experienced the same activities before)

4. Present the content

Watch the  Videos from TETE Building Routines: “Start Up” Language Routines/ Do Now & Wrap-up routines.

Write them into Routine Chart:

Name of Routine

When to use

Purpose

Warm up

At the beginning of the lesson

help  students feel

confident and ready for the classroom activities

 

5. Guide learning

 -Thumbs up and thumbs down (the trainer reads statements about types of routines, trainees agree or disagree with them)

- Experimental activity  “Do Now” routines

 

 

6. Elicit performance practice)

Use Clock Mingle.

 

Ask PP to share the Routines they use in their classroom. PP will share it first in plenary, then they will mingle around the classroom and fill the boxes provided by trainers.

7. Provide feedback

Wrap up Routines

 In groups, participants will present their boarding cards each other and evaluate the questions/ statements in 1-5 Scale.

8. Assess performance

 Exit ticket 3-2-1 three routines they have learned today, two routines they have applied, one question they still have

9. Enhance retention and transfer

 Before participants leave the workshop, ask them which routine activity they liked the best and write them into their Activity Tracker.
Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Theme
Building Routines in English classrooms
Language Level
Intermediate
Student Age
Adult