Friday, March 20, 2020

Pro-D For Teacher Trainees of Rural China

Hey, this is a bit of a dated post-been busy..to say the least but in light of the virus situation...guess what!? One has time!

A while back now-I was asked personally to work in cooperation with Dalian Local Educational Bureau in their efforts to improve rural China's education through training and resource sharing.

Having guests from rural China is interesting, having to stand in front of them and give advice on English Language personal enhancement strategies-really takes the cake.




I don't know if it is a matter of, "well that was interesting" because of that fact that its been awhile since I have had a room of adults (in general) actually listen to me and take what I say seriously-or that I have actually been teaching the right way and I might have actually impacted a teacher or two.




I can't say I thought I was the best presenter ever (although I did have handouts stapled and photocopied" prior to the activity-so "props."

But in reality, people (some of which were very experienced individuals) who made a point of participating and chatting with me a bit during my circulating in which they were able to basically take away what I was putting down (regardless of how drawn out my overall conclusion would have been).



Nonetheless, I shared some resources with them in the activity (that I had made and created). I thought I might share them with you along with the main idea of what it is that the "BIG IDEA" was essentially becoming-originally the plan was that I was to share the ways of running reader's theatre, as well as other essential ELL training ideas. These teachers already had those tools in their toolbox, what they needed and wanted was someone to hear them and tell them that its okay to fail.

Resources shared are available on my teachers pay teachers,

(ELL Teaching in ON)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/PLC-Presentation-on-What-does-an-Effective-ELL-Program-Look-Like-ON-Curr-5062706

(Active Classrooms and cross-Curricular lesson planning to engage interest based learning)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-to-Budget-TJF3C-ON-Curriculum-Financial-LitTourism-and-Hospitality-5031026

(How to Talk About Mental Health in a School that Doesn't Want you to)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/World-Mental-Health-Day-Classroom-Kicker-OCT-10-4863417

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