Institute+Materials

//On this page, you will find templates for many of the classroom activities in which you participated during the institute. Click on them to download them to your own computer so you can customize them for your own students!//

=Day 1 - Establishing a Climate for Learning=


 * Principles & Practices: Getting to Know You**

- Getting to know the participants in the institute

- Getting to know participants' professional circumstances


 * Circle - [[file:Inside Outside Circles ST.doc]] - Instructions for Inside/Outside Circles
 * Two lines (teacher walks down the middle of the row)

- Getting to know personal experiences

Debrief:


 * How could these activities help students practice linguistic content?
 * How could these activities expose students to cultural concepts?
 * What pedagogical processes did we use to facilitate these activities?


 * True Colors**

[|True Colors Test]

Four Corners Needs/Strengths/Values Charts



[|True Colors Interpretations]


 * Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences**

[|Table 1 - Summary of the 8 Intelligences] [|Multiple Intelligences - Classroom Application] [|Strategies] - Intake, Studying, Output [|Multiple Intelligences Quiz] - Flash-based, gives results as you take each section, then prioritizes them in a bar graph


 * Culturally Authentic Materials** **& Comparisons**

**-** Using realia





- Exploring culturally authentic products (food, maps, and paper plates paired activity; paired conversation activity)



= = =Day 2 - Contexts for Learning: Connecting Cultures & Communities with Social Technologies=


 * Activating Prior Knowledge: Content-based Connections and Cultural Comparisons**





[|Holidays & Seasons: Fasching] (Venn diagram demo lesson with German 3rd Graders)



= = =Day 3 - Interpersonal Communication: Cooperative Learning & Classroom Management=


 * Immersing Students in Comprehensible Language**





- Hear/Say Grid


 * Mentoring: Providing Feedback**


 * Giving Feedback**


 * **Perspective** – Start by ASKING for the learner’s perspective (because behavior doesn't change until perspective changes).
 * **Feel -** How did you feel about your lesson today?
 * **Think –** What do you think went well today?
 * **Do** – What will you change for next time?
 * **Probe -** Ask questions instead of making statements (to invite thinking).
 * **Personal Observations** – Use “I” statements, and be descriptive, not evaluative.
 * **Possible to Change** - Focus on behavior that can be changed.
 * **Prioritize** - Focus on 1 to 3 high priority issues (to limit the "cognitive load" on the mentee).
 * **Public Praise/Private –** Praise in public, provide suggestions in private.

- A template you could use for discussing a colleague's lesson you have observed

= = =Day 4 - Collaborative Learning Environments=



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