b. 13.40 Nataly Shebeko getting_the_most_out_of_your_lessons

1. Getting the most out of your lessons

Natalia Shebeko, Mayak school

2. Successful learning requires learners’ full involvement into the lesson

3.

Do students love doing homework? – No
Do they love checking it? - Yes

4. How to involve students into checking HW assignments?

5. WRITING

Concerns with checking written tasks:
• Make it student-centered
• Ensure connection to the previous lesson
• Save my personal time (of utmost
importance)

6. An online review

7. Students’ works

8. Discuss one work together as a class

• Compare the work to the
requirements
• Focus on the strengths
• Check if anything needs
improvement

9.

10. Peer correction

11. Benefits of peer correction:

• Student-centered task
• Revision of the material
• Analysis of the task
I saved my time!!!

12. Tip 1 Involve your learners into peer correction

13. LISTENING

14. Challenges boost the feeling of achievement

15.

16. Tip 2 Work with the script

17. SPEAKING

Use visual supports

18. Combining writing with speaking

Write down main ideas, target vocabulary,
collocations, grammatical structures etc.
Use them to form the
basis for speaking
activities.

19. SPEAKING

20. Turning writing into speaking

21. Tip 3 Combine the tasks

22. READING

23. Students make their own tasks

• True and false
statements on the text
• Questions
• Gapped sentences

24. Tip 4 Ask learners to make the tasks themselves

25. Tip 5 Challenge your learners

26. Involve learners into peer correction Work with the script Combine the tasks Ask learners to make the tasks themselves

How to get the most out of
your lessons:
Involve learners into peer correction
Work with the script
Combine the tasks
Ask learners to make the tasks themselves
Challenge your learners

27. Thank you for your attention!

Nataly Shebeko, Mayak school