Small Changes In Teaching Big Results In Learning : Videos, Activities And Essays To Stimulate Fresh Thinking About Language Learning And Teaching

Small Changes in Teaching Big Results in Learning is a new resource book aimed at both novice and experienced teachers of English as another language. It can be used in formal/informal teacher education groups or by individual teachers. The approach is simple and effective: Videos introduce new activities and types of feedback. You read more about the activities you saw in action. You try them out in your own classes. As you master the activities and types of feedback introduced in this book, you will be able to move from teaching as a ritual to teaching as discovery. You will decrease the time you spend making lesson plans, quizzes and tests, looking for the ideal syllabus, and preparing worksheets and handouts and, as a result, you will have more time to analyze transcriptions and video clips of what you and your students are doing. "In Small Changes in Teaching Big Results in learning, Fanselow teaches us, in the chapters and the videos, some incredibly powerful lessons. In his typically sensitive yet bold and direct way, he teaches us to pay attention to the emotions of characters, and our own feelings, as well as students' discomfort and the value of rehearsal and scores of other changes along the way. This is a new and important book for educators everywhere!" Ann Lieberman, Professor Emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University Past President, American Educational Research Association "John Fanselow, the gentle iconoclast, is back and his new book was well worth waiting for. John has long been an advocate of careful self-observation, noticing small details, experimenting with original and varied procedures, factoring in the affective features of learning - and above all with challenging our routines, habits and preconceptions. This new book does all this and more. It is packed with practical ideas and fresh insights into what teachers do in classrooms. A must-read." Alan Maley Series Editor for Oxford Resource Books for teachers 25 years British Council English Language Officer "Small Changes in Teaching Big Results in Learning is aimed at both novice and experienced teachers of English as an additional language. The contexts in the examples are decidedly EFL and traditional in terms of the focus on grammar. The activities (never described as tasks) are explained with such detail that the novice teacher can understand them. The book can be used by individual teachers as well as in informal teacher training groups. The resource is user friendly and can easily be dipped into - a chronological reading is not necessary. Each chapter is accompanied by videos, freely available on the internet, that demonstrate the activities. Making Small Changes in Teaching may appear deceptively simple in that it focuses on the detail of teaching and learning activities, but Fanselow's underlying and primary concern is to challenge our classroom routines, habits and practices through analysis, together with our students, of classroom transcripts. Such a process is both challenging and transformational and yet infrequently practised." Margaret Kitchen, University of Aukland (review in the TESOLANZ Journal, Volume 26, December 2018)

• | Author: John F. Fanselow
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 265 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1983023922
• | ISBN-13: 9781983023927