b. 13.40 Nataly Shebeko getting_the_most_out_of_your_lessons

Successful learning requires learners’ full involvement into the lesson

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

How to involve students into checking HW assignments?

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

An online review

Students’ works

Discuss one work together as a class
Compare the work to the requirements
Focus on the strengths
Check if anything needs improvement

Peer correction

Benefits of peer correction:
Student-centered task
Revision of the material
Analysis of the task
I saved my time!!!

Tip 1
Involve your learners into peer correction

LISTENING

Challenges boost the feeling of achievement

Tip 2
Work with the script

SPEAKING
Use visual supports

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

SPEAKING

Turning writing into speaking

Tip 3
Combine the tasks

READING

Students make their own tasks
True and false statements on the text
Questions
Gapped sentences

Tip 4
Ask learners to make the tasks themselves

Tip 5
Challenge your learners

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