Workshop Plan Module 9

Nine Events

Description of Instructional Event

PowerPoint Slides or Handouts

1. Gain attention

5 minutes

Jazz chants

Worksheets with chants

2. Inform learners of objectives

3 minutes

 By the end of the workshop, teachers will be able to:

•            describe the benefits of communicative language teaching through discussions and debates and how to use them in the EFL classroom
• explore various cooperative learning and interactive language tasks and strategies that build language proficiency and a classroom discourse community
• develop higher order thinking questions that encourage critical thinking in the classroom
• design ways you plan to integrate and manage learning activities that support a communicative approach for language learning in your classroom

PPT slide

3. Stimulate recall of prior learning

5 minutes

 Stimulate participants beliefs in facilitating discussions and debates. As well as setting expectations for these activities in their language classroom...

Ask “How do you organize debates and discussions in your classroom?

 How do you set expectations for debates and discussions?”

What strategies do you use to involve all participants?

Mini-lecture on the reasons behind the necessity of using some strategies to organize debates and discussions?

Question:  

  “What is debate?“

   “What is discussion?”

“How do you organize debates and discussions in your classroom? How do you set expectations for debates and discussions?”   

What strategies do you use to involve all participants?

4. Present the content

 20 minutes

 Demonstrate the videos from TETE:

Video 1. Discussion activities. After watching Video 1 the participants apply “Tower Build “ activity for stimulating discussions

Video 2. Debates in the language classroom.

  https://sites.google.com/view/mason-tete/module-9-facilitating-discussions-and-debates?authuser=0#h.4dg8ph8jectx

 https://sites.google.com/view/mason-tete/module-9-facilitating-discussions-and-debates?authuser=0#h.8rgvedbu5ew

5. Guide learning

Give One and Get One information gap activity

20 minutes

Reading the Articles

Article 1: Navigating Discussions and Debates in the EFL Classroom by Kelley Webb

6. Elicit performance (practice)

10 minutes

  Consider the ways you already use or would like to integrate and manage learning activities that support a communicative approach for language learning in your classroom. Think about the following questions and write down some thoughts in your journal.

• What do “discussions” and “debates” look like for you? How about in your classroom instruction?
• How do you usually get students interested in discussing a new topic in your class?
• How do you generally select the topics of discussion for class? Do students have any choice or input in selecting topics?
• What are your challenges and possible solutions for facilitating discussions and debates in your language classroom?

7. Provide feedback

PQP

5 minutes

   Participants work in small groups to demonstrate their adapted activities.

P-Praise

Q-Question

P-Polish

8. Assess performance

5 minutes

• Participants write 1-2 paragraphs to reflect on Module 9.
• Collect their Exit Tickets to assess participants’ understanding of workshop content. 

9. Enhance retention and transfer

5 minutes

 Before leaving the workshop ask participants which activities of the workshop they liked and how they will change them or implement without change  in their classes.