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17 0 Practice Teaching: A Reflective Approach
Discussion questions
1. What advice would you give to a student teacher who is about to commence his or her teaching practice?
2. What are some goals you could set for yourself in terms of your longer-term professional development as a language teacher?
3. What forms of collaboration with other teachers do you think will be useful to you once you commence full-time teaching?
4. What professional organizations for language teachers are you familiar with? What benefits do you think belonging to such organizations could bring?
5. What unique strengths and dispositions do you possess that would make you an asset to a school or language-teaching institution?
6. What kinds of professional development activities do you think would be useful to you to foster your continued development as a language teacher?
Follow-up activities
Look at some of the following Internet sites (we thank David Deubelbeiss for these) and discuss how useful you think some of them could be for your teaching.
1. http://eflclassroom.ning.com - EFL Classroom 2.0: Lots of resources, games, discussion and tips for using technology in the classroom. For both students and teachers.
2. http://breakingnewsenglish.com - BreakingNewsEnglish: For higher-level students or teaching teachers. Articles with exercises and listening.
3. http://mes-english.com - MES English: Flashcards, worksheets for young leamers. 4. http://bogglesworldesl.com - Bogglesworld: Lesson plans, activities, for young learners and middle school students / high school students.
5. http://teachingrecipes.com - Teaching Recipes: Short and simple techniques, ideas and resources to help teachers.
6. www.de.mingoville.com/content/view/13/29/lang,en - Mingoville: Online leaming süite for young leamers. Free, great for practice.
7. http://acacia.pntic.mec.es/agip0002/auro/inicio.html - Click N Learn: Online leaming süite for older students. Free. Great practice.
8. www.diigo.com/list/eflclassroom - A Ust of MANY sites, all categorized and saved by fellow English teachers. A treasure chest!
9. www.voicethread.com - Voicethread: Create an account, put up a picture, and send your students there to practice speaking and to record messages. Really great for speaking practice.
10. http://voxopop.com - Voxopop: Much like Voicethread but no pictures, Only a series of recordings. Ask a question and your students can go there to reply and speak in English. Make your own class group.
11. https://plans.pbworks.com/academic - Wikis: Create a free wiki for your class and students to edit and share ideas.
12. http://writeboard.com - Writeboard: A class writeboard allows all students to work on a class document, add and edit and see the changes. Teacher friendly!
13. http://pageflakes.com - Pageflakes: Quickly make a page for your class that updates all the rss feeds you want of all the content around the world wide web that your students might need.
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14. http://quizlet.com - Quizlet: Allows you to make wordlists which your students can use for practice and also quiz themselves.
15. http://tarheelreader.org - Tar Heel Reader: Make books with pictures. The site has a voice which will read them! Also download them as PowerPoint and use in class directly! 16. http://eslvideo.com - ESL Video: Students or teachers can make quizzes using YouTube videos!
17. http://real-english.com - Real English: Watch videos with subtitles, for all levels. Unique!
18. http://englishcentral.com/teachers - Enghsh Central: Sign up as a teacher, invite stu dents to record their voice to real videos. Keep track of their progress!
19. http://edu20.org - Edu 2.0: Create a classroom community using this amazingly simple LMS (Leaming Management System). Sign up your class and they can chat, blog, share videos and music. All free!
20. http://penzu.com - Penzu: A very attractive and simple place for students to keep an Online Journal or diary. They can share with the teacher or classmates. Really easy to set up.
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