Russell Stannard in ICT in ELT class in Warwick           Tuesday, 21 January 2014  

  

Mr. Stannard talked really enthusiastically in our ICT in ELT class and explained about the way how ICT for language learning should be in the future. That is the' Connected classroom.'

The summary of his talk is as follows:
Connected classroom:

             This can extend the lesson and link the out-of-class learning to the classroom lesson.

Flipped classroom:
             Everybody can share the common learning materials, flip in the lesson. 
            (cf.) Multimedia training blog

Using technology:
             How do we  teach/learn language by ICT ?

             Linking methodologies,  increasing communication,
                *  Pedagogy can lead technology (pedagogy comes first)
             *  Focus is speaking and communication
                *   The change of examination system can be happened
                *   Constructing knowledge
                *   People communicate with technology
                *   Communicative language learning

TTV by Russell Stannard - teachingvideos.com  

This is a very useful site which instruct us how to use some ICT tools visually. Everybody, even a novice teacher, can understand how to

manage them easily. A lot of  "How to" are introduced in this site.

A Classroom in Japan

What happenｓ in Japanese ELT classroom?

• A big class size: 30 〜 40 students each class.

• The differences in the students' capability of English language is striking.

• Teachers are always too busy to spare enough time for lessons. Because they have to play variety kinks of roles; such as consulting a student and his/her parents, managing a homeroom, guiding students for the future course, taking charge of club activites, doing school duties assingned to an individual teacher, having an experimental class and so on.

• A New Course of Study focuses on the communicative English and the MEXT prescribed that English high school teachers in Japan should primalily conduct an English class through English.

• Some students are never interested in English language. They think that they don't need English for their life. That is, their motivation in English is really low. On the other hand, other students are indulge in their learning English and won the devate competetion or won the championship in the speech contest.

The cherry blossoms in  my neighborhood.

Cherry trees are in full blossom in most all the schools in Japan in April.   It looks that cherry trees give us their blessing.

New semester starts in April in Japan. April is the new starting point for the freshmen and every students have their hopes up.

We, teachers, also hope that all the students will attain their goals and graduate from the school with delight. We teachers think that our main job is helping the students grow up to be a good member of the society. It is not just teaching English, but also fostering human nature through English teaching or other school activities.
This is a very impressive song by Naotaro Moriyama 'Sakura'.  Click here.

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