Teachable moment
Any
moment is a teachable moment.
When a teacher only has three hours or less a day to teach all subjects,
it is a challenge. So, any tiny moment
can’t be wasted. When choosing lunch, math can be added to the counting.
Gradually, a comparison can be made.
Do students yell out things
in English? Instead of telling them not to use English, just repeat it in
Chinese and put it in a sentence. The
language comes from the students, and it’s in a context they can understand. They will remember
it better.
I often make
a crazy laugh to the kids during early October and expect them to scream “Witch!” at me. “How perfect” I will tell myself, and I will point at myself and keep repeating “巫婆”. Now, they learn a word that is useful during
Halloween but has never appeared in the textbook. The best part is that they
won’t forget about it due to the context and the way they acquired this new vocabulary.
任何时候都是教学的时刻。当一个老师只有3个或不到3个小时来教所有学科,是个极大的挑战,一分一秒都不能浪费掉。
选午餐,数数可以加进来,等学生熟练数字后,可以趁此机会来比较多少和多几个,少几个。
学生大声喊出英文,无须浪费时间来纠正,顺势把中文词汇丢给他们,这是学生自己提供的语文,用在情境上,他们比较不会忘记这个词也不会忘记用法。
十月初,我会故意对学生奸笑,他们往往会喊出“witch”,正合我意,我总是指着自己反复再说几次“巫婆”,要他们跟着说“陈老师是巫婆”.一个万圣节有用的词汇就简单学会了。
Once, several students talked about one student
being a “smarty-pants”. How exciting! I
asked the student to come to the front. I asked him questions, and then expect
his “smart” pants to answer me after putting the microphone to his pants. Of
course, there was no sound from his pants. I asked him the same questions, and
he could answer everything. I turned to the students and asked in Chinese “who
is smart, he or the pants?” Everyone laughed and learned to say, “pants are not
smart,” “he is smart” in Chinese. Of course, there will be students trying to
answer for the pants. Ignore this
naughty behavior and reward positive behavior and let the students know your
expectations.
一次,几个学生形容另一个学生是个 “smarty-pants”。机不可失,我请这学生站到前方, 把麦克风放到学生膝盖附近问了几个简单的问题,当然裤子不会回答,我问学生同样的
问题,这个学生回答了每个问题,接着我问所有学生,是裤子聪明还是他聪明,笑得开怀的学生大声回答“他很聪明,裤子不聪明。”当然会有几个调皮的学生想替裤子回答,故意忽略,然后表扬听话认真的小孩就可以让学生知道老师的态度和期许。
When something drops,
say it out loud. When thinking of
something, say it out loud. When you can’t find something, say it out
loud. When you find something, say it
out loud.
When the students
match your actions with words, everything makes sense to them and they have a
better chance to remember the words.
东西掉了,大声的说出来 “啊,掉下去了。”在想事情的时候,也说出来
“我想。。。。”
找不到东西时,也说出来,“我的东西在哪里?”找到了,也大声说找到了或是在这里,学生自然可以从你的行为和言辞找到连贯,由此知道也学会一些课本上不容易教到的词汇。
Students need social language; they need to hear it
in daily life and in the most natural setting in order to remember and reuse
the language. So, when to teach these
social languages? Any moment is a teachable moment. Students are learning all
the time. Look for these teachable moments.
学生需要知道生活上的用语,他们从自然的环境,生活周遭听到这些语文时是最容易记住的。何时教才对?任何时候都可以教,学生无时不刻都在学习。善用这些时刻。
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