Workshop 9 Extending Textbook activities.

Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction

1. Gain attention

1. Show participiants different textbook activities on projector, and then Show them the adaptation of those textbook activities. After that participants  will be asked  to discuss in pairs the difference between  these activities, choose the one they liked.
2. In pairs, Turn and Talk, ask elbow partners why they like it.
3. Show and read the quote:

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, “We’ve always done it  this way !” Grace Murray Hopper.

4. Ask participants whether they agree or not. They  show their choice with doing Thumbs Up/Down. Then give Follow up question to their pairs “Why?”

2. Inform learners of objectives

• Read the objectives ( which is written on the boarding card)

               By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to :

  ~    analyze textbook lessons/activities and adapt content for appropriate and      meaningful use to meet the learner needs and enhance classroom interactions.

  ~    use textbook materials, and other relevant sources to develop effective communicative lesson/activities appropriate for their learning environment.

3. Stimulate recall of prior learning

• Stimulate participants ideas  by asking question:
• Have you ever need to do any changes with the textbook activities?
• Why did you need to change the given textbook activities?

4. Present the content

 -  Display the video about Adapting Textbook activities  from TETE Course

-Display the video about Tips for Adapting Teaching materials from TETE course.

5. Guide learning

Teachers will be introduced the ways to adapt, extend the textbook activities according to their students` needs using PPT slides

(Here  the PPT covers some questions, on which teachers need to answer) .

The importance of adaptation will  be discussed. Here participants will work in small groups, and give important reasons to adapt textbook activities.

6. Elicit performance (practice)

 Then participants will choose one activity,  that they currently use in their school. Participants have to adapt the chosen activity answering the question, How can this be adapted and used to give your Ss more chances to use their English communicatively? Then they will describe their learner characteristics and teaching context, and explain to why they have adapted the activity.( This is an individual task)

In the next step participants will present their adapted lesson/activity.

7. Provide feedback

• In groups, participants demonstrate  their  newly adapted activities.
• Organize a Gallery Walk, in their groups participants will choose the best adapted activities, and demonstrate to another groups.
• Give P-Q-P feedback to each group.
• At the end participants will answer the question, Are there any new activities you have learned today?

8. Assess performance

 Before they leave, give participants a piece of paper  will write their reflection on these  three questions:

• What was the most interesting thing I learned?
• What was the most important knowledge I gained?
• What question do I still have?

 Collect the Exit Tickets  to assess the participants understanding of workshop content.

9. Enhance retention and transfer

Ask PP to choose one activity from their textbook and  they should adapt and extend it.