Oral Presentations in the classroom

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This is a padlet with some examples of oral presentations of books and magazine articles the students had read (we usually do this in a JIGSAW dynamics).
The first time there are likely to be texts copied from Google, presentations read from notes etc. But by observing their peers with "detective cards", students soon become aware of what makes a good presentation.

LEARNER AUTONOMY

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In this padlet you will find interesting overview as to how we can gradually develop learner autonomy in our classroom

ARTIFACT BOX

Here is an example of an Artifact box I did with my 5-year-old daughter on the topic Saturn. She was able to present it all by herself and especially the hairdryer (representing the strong winds on that planet) turned out to be a huge success. Fotobabble on the project

Foster self- and peer-observation

In order to increase students´ awareness of different aspects of communicative competence (speaking, talking, listening, reading and writing), we have developed a series of tools that allow them to observe these aspects.

These tools furthermore allow us to multiply the "role of the teacher" and to have every student in the classroom ACTIVELY participating.

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On this padlet you find an overview of some of these tools
- Detective cards for oral presentations and for writing
- Rubrics to observe different aspects of collaborative communication, the use of English in the classroom
- SCOBA Observation grids for different text genres (travel experience, opinion essay, personal letter,...)
- Bull´s eye to evaluate group participation
- Observation sheets for co-teaching activities
- Metaplan-mapping to decide on evaluation criteria