Module 4 Summary & Tips
Module 4 Summary
The TBLT method can have obstacles caused by class size, students previous learning experiences, and digital v. live classroom.
Pre-task: As the facilitator you will first introduce the topic to your students. We offer advice on how to start the pre-task when you teach in a blended classroom.
Task: As the facilitator, your goal is to engage students in one of the following while that are doing the task -- listening, speaking, reading, writing comprehension. We provide an example of how to engage your students in speaking practice during the task.
Post-task: We provide an example of flyer making as an example of a post-task exercise. There are many post task exercises that your students do to engage with the material. As the facilitator, think about how the post-task might be done in class, at home, individually, or in small groups.
As the teacher/facilitator you want to be fair to your students, knowledgeable about the topic, and motivational to your students.
During the class the teacher will be an assessor, prompter, participant, tutor, facilitator, model, and monitor at different times.
Student Centered Class: Teacher helps the students become active in making projects and doing research. There is collaboration between the teacher and the students.
3 Cs of Change: Cease, continue, commence. As the teacher you can keep this in mind while you teach, so that your teaching continues to grow as you get more teaching experience.
When you make a task for your class, keep these ideas in mind: does the task make sense, involve an obstacle that can be overcomed, give way to questions, let the students critically think, is this a real world situation, give general rules, use metacognition.
Tips and Recommendations:
Think about what aspects of the course should be digital - what should your students prepare at home? What should be discussed in class?
There are various tools that can be used for collaborative work online (Google docs/presentations, jamboard, canva, etc) - (Here i would link to our other projects that show how to make lesson plans: Digital Pedagogy Cookbook and Shaping)
How can you engage your students to discuss the topics?
Example of a worksheet in which they need to tick off every phrase as they use them
Pre-task Tips:
All lesson types -- Ask them what jobs they have already had, since it will get them to practice the past tense
1-1 lesson tip -- Find an example job application online, and ask your student to read the text. It will check their pronunciation
1-1 lesson tip -- make the pro/con list with them
Group tips -- make smaller groups to have them make the pro/con lists. If the class is very large, they probably don’t have to come together to discuss all of the ideas.
Group tips -- the students will definitely want to have technology devices
Group tips -- Have the students write down the pro/cons on a live shared documents
Task Tips:
1-1 lesson tips -- be prepared to write definitions of key terms with your student
Group lesson tips -- provide a shared link with key definitions. Students can add vocabulary to the list in a collaborative way
Classroom where the students know each other's tips -- When you will choose jobs to learn about, encourage your students to research the jobs of the other students. They probably know what the other students jobs are
Post Task Tips:
1-1 lesson tips -- Try a role reversal, and challenge your student to be the agent and you the job candidate
1-1 lesson tip -- It may be challenging to build the questionnaire with your student, since you will use the questionnaire in the exercise. Feel free to use the pre-made questionnaire.
