Day 3

We continued our training with Diana. Points I picked up:

Lesson openers:

• write down what you don't know about...............


• write down 3 things you can remember from..................

Groupwork:

expertgroups:

• 3/4 persons per group,


• each group writes down the (dis)advantages in a chart


• swap the first groupmember


• he/she shares his expertise

groupwork in general:

• assign roles e.g. captain, timekeeper


• always give the time limit, preferably a funny one e.g. 93/4 minute

Boundaries + purpose: tell the pupils when to speak Dutch and English -> be more explicit

Choice: give pupils choices e.g. after having read a text:

• do exercise ...


• make an exercise on the text yourself


• make a vocab puzzle

Useful websites:

bloom learning styles: http://www.dbu.edu/faculty/bloompage.html

Howard Gardener on multiple intelligences and education: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm

ESL goeroe Cummins : http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/

content and language integrated learning (CLIL) : http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/teach/clil_en.html

Kenji Hakuta: has done a lot of research on biligual teaching. His personal website with publications: http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/

At night, we went out to the local church: St. Mary's church for an evening of bell-ringing.


We climbed the stairs of this really old church per group and were invited to join in on the bell ringing. It was quite an experience, because the bells, which are rung by a cord are very heavy and you are supposed to pull the cord at the right time.

What is bell-ringing?

(source: wikipedia)


Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes". It differs from many other forms of campanology (such as carillon ringing) in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody.
Today, change ringing can be found all over the world, performed in a variety of media; but it remains most popular in the context where, in the 17th century, it developed: English church towers. These typically contain a few large bells rigged to swing freely: a ring of bells. The considerable inertias involved mean that each bell usually requires its own ringer. Thus, contrasted with a carillon, in which a large number of bells are struck by hammers, all tied in to a central framework so that one carilloneur can control them all, a set of such bells is comparatively unwieldy— hence the emergence of permutations rather than melody as an organizing principle.
The popularity of "The Exercise" (as it is sometimes known) reflects its opportunities for physical recreation, intellectual stimulation, aesthetic enjoyment, and social camaraderie.