Demand-High Teaching: Pushing your students to learn more
Emma and Al
What do the following stand for?
a) TTT
b) PPP
c) ZPD
d) RCP
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“there is a large undemand”
3 zones of change...
• attitude – expectation that learner is capable of more than we expect
• focus of energy – moving from obsession with mechanics to where the learning is going on
• technique – nudging interventions
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What do the three following concepts have in common?
a) Audiolingualism.
b) The “phonological loop”.
c) Working memory.
•Being supportive
•Asserting authority
•Telling
•Eliciting
•Questioning
•Checking Learning and Understanding
•Being catalytic
•Structuring and signposting
•Giving encouragement
•Giving difficult messages
•Permitting emotion
•Being unhelpful
•Vanishing
Key teacher interventions
Being unhelpful
Out with the old and in with the newReceived contemporary Demand HighMaterial-centred
ritualised methodology
Teacher as hub
Abdicated facilitation
Little language upgrade
Fun is added on
language work developed
praise all learner attempts
questions test right answers
getting a correct answer closes the question
accept first answers
don’t put “students in the spotlight”
expect that most of your learners are unlikely to get better than “half good” at anything
Main goal = communicate and get correct
learning-centred
go where the learning is
everyone interacts
active interaction management
lots of language upgrade
engagement is integral
hands-on language work
give precise feedback
questions uncover process
stay with answers and work on improving them
push and nudge each student moment by moment
work “one-to-one” within the class
expect and believe that your learners can do much better than you currently ask of them or that they ask of themselves
main goal = playful and continual upgrade
Demand more…
Fat Grammar vs. Spindly Grammar
Te toca.
More information...
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Demand-High 1 – Demand-High 2
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