Peter Stepichev "Surprise as a Trigger for Active Learning: a Few Ideas for your Lesson"

You’ll learn how to make surprise a meaningful emotion for the English lesson, how to transform surprise into interest, what tools can be applied to make learning more effective and enjoyable for your students. Focusing on emotions rather that the material is a key for new professional insights and a basis for true learner-centered approach at the lesson.
На семинаре мы научимся зарождать и использовать удивление учеников, превратив его в ресурс для повышения эффективности урока, узнаем как преобразовать его в устойчивый интерес. Полученные инструменты и идеи помогут в практическом ключе реализовать идею обучения, в котором приоритет отдается личности ученика и его собственной активной деятельности.

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1. Surprise as a Trigger for Active Learning: a few ideas for your lesson Peter A. Stepichev PhD, NATE executive director
2. Teach people, not just subject matter
3. To teach people means to work with motivation To digest knowledge one should swallow it with appetite (A. France)
4. To teach people means to consider psychology n d k r b p 8 s i c e t l a h Von Restorff effect: make a difference
5. -  Fortunetelling and Magic Tricks -  Group: 2-15 players -  Time: 5-15 min. Irregular Verbs Cards
6. To teach people means to apply active learning methods
7. Vocabulary Puzzle An engaging way to teach: -  phonetics (e.g. make a word with a certain sound) -  grammar (e.g. make an irregular verb or adjective) -  vocabulary (e.g. make words from your essential vocabulary list) Grammar Puzzle
8. To teach people means to appeal to their emotions Surprise your students! Grammar Stickers for Grammar Mug
9. To teach people means to address their needs Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory 1983
11. Think bigger J
12. Teach people, not just subject matter. And people will choose you
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