MARIA FRAGKAKIO.U.CY.

MOHAMED S. ABU MALIQQOU

Learning Activity Templatefor

“English”

Learning Activity Identity

Teachers name: Abeer Ayaseh School name/for boys or girls: Raba Secondary Girls’

School Grade/Age: 11th Grade Subject Matter: “English” Topic of the learning activity: Education First

Relation with the curriculum:This theme it concerns “English” and especially the unit three from the book English for Palestine on page 26-35. You can also find information about the targets to the English Curriculum : Arabic & Civil Education

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The description of the activity

Activity name : Education First Improving writing and speaking skills are targeted in this activity.

Activity in brief : dividing students into three groups, asking them to search the Internet to get the following information in years 2000 and 2014 Group1: number of students \ # schools \ educational system in India.

Group 2: number of teachers & illiterates educational system in America

Group 3: number of graduates & Internet users \ educational system in Britain

The idea is to promote the students to know about the condition of education in Palestine and compare it with other systems in other countries in charts then convey them into paragraphs on ppt slides. They will also be able to discuss their needs as students in Gaza and the West Bank at schools and write a letter to the Minister of Education telling her about the solutions.

Moreover, the students will read their letters through the morning program and share them on their page on Facebook.

Cognitive targets/Skills/products

21st c skills

Living in the worldCitizenship – local and globalLife and educationPersonal, social responsibility

Ways of workingCommunication; Collaboration;

Ways of thinkingCreativity and innovation;Critical thinking, problem solving;

Ways of feelingEmpathyCare

Teaching-Learning Process

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Communication: the students build their knowledge by exchanging information with their classmates and teacher.

Critical thinking : - discussion in groups -comparing and contrasting

 

invention ( create solutions)

analytical thinking Critical thinking Learning with fun Communication Co-operation Social awareness Long-life learning Empathy

Teaching-learning process

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The teacher's role The students’ roles

*monitoring*directing

•*Asking students to collect information

•*counseling• *

Using different sources and ICT tools to create and find solutions for problems

cooperating and communicating by working in groups

Critical thinking and searching on the Internet to get information.

Teaching-learning process

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ICT Environments and Resources utilization & added value

Wordle helps students to brainstorming and their more common thoughts /knowledge to be distinguished through a quantitative analysis of the data

Wikipedia helps students to find information easily and flexibly Google helps students to find information easily and flexibly Excel helps students to organize their data and visualize them

easily E draw Mind Maps help students to organize-reorganize analyze

and synthesize their thoughts more flexible and creative. It helps students visualize their thought

youtube helps students to watch and collect information about their lessons .

Game: “Against all adds” ” helps students to cultivate empathy emotions and critical thought through playing

Moviemaker helps students to write stories, poems and illustrated them as the wish via a professional and easy way

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Activity: “ warm up ” ICT environment:” Words clouding

Warm up activity: Hangman game.( school subjects ) . Dividing students into three groups .Students guess the letters that are in the words. If they make 4 wrong guesses, they will lose. The words are about the school subjects.

http://www.manythings.org/hmf/hm-subjects.html

*Alternative : the classroom spin wheel. Dividing students into three groups. Each group chooses a topic of four and answer the question about it. The topics are: school subjects \ school rooms\ school supplies and school actions. The group that answers the largest number of questions correctly is the winner.

http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/SpinOff/School,%20Classrooms,%20Subjects%20&%20more/play.html

http://www.manythings.org/hmf/hm-subjects.html

Learning Activities Templates for “English”

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http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/SpinOff/School

Activity: “ what do you know about education in Palestine? ”

ICT environment: Google\ Wikipedia

The students work in three groups. Each group has homework to collect information about the following topics about the educational system in Palestine in 2000 & 2014.

Group1: number of students \ # schools \ educational system in India.

Group 2: number of teachers & illiterates educational system in America

Group 3: number of graduates & Internet users \ educational system in Britain

Then, the students bring the information to the classroom. Each group discusses their information. •Students work in groups and discuss the reasons that make education comes first . Students write down their own opinions and suggestions .Then, the groups exchange their ideas . A student from each group visits the other groups and discuss her group’s point of view with them.

Learning Activities Templates for “English”

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Activity: “ Magic box ”ICT environment : Wordle

students make their own clouds of words (related to school) using wordle. Then each student writes her best word on a piece of paper and put it in the magic box that the students made. Next, a student from each group picks a paper and helps the others to guess it by telling them the first letter or its type of speech or acting it, then they give information about it http://clipflair.net/overview

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Activity: “changing information from linear into non-linear .

Excel (charts )- PowerPoint- game (Monopoly)

•Students work in groups of three to organize their information ( statistics )about numbers of learners, schools, illiterates, Internet users, teachers and graduates in charts • Then they convert the linear information of the charts into non-linear in paragraphs (using simple past and simple present) on their classmate laptops using PowerPoint prg and give presentations.• wrap up : Monopoly : students pick a number using the dice and talk about the topic that it has this number.

Learning Activities Templates for “English”

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Activity: “ Palestine between developed and developing countries educationally.

ICT environment: Google\ Wikipedia \ excel(charts)\ PowerPoint

compare the Palestinian education with the education in India and America

Sts collect information about the educational system in America and India. Then, they upload the information on their group “ 21st C skills “ to share ideas and avoid repetition.

Then they prepare presentation about each educational system on PowerPoint

Students work in groups to comment on the presentations and discuss critically the educational condition in Palestine.

Then they are asked to find solutions to the discussed problems .

Learning Activities Templates for “Science”

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Activity 3: “ let's interact and create?”

ICT environments “Microsoft word, youtube ”

Students show youtube videos about schools , students, teaching and education conditions in the West Bank and Gaza.

Then the students work in two groups ( West Bank students and Gaza students) and write letters to the Minister of Education to convey their problems and need in education .

Then they are asked to write their final draft of the letters on word document and print them out and read them during the morning program,

Learning Activities Templates for “English”

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Reflection- Evaluation

Teachers Reflection on students knowledge 21st c skills

Conclusions: Students get self-confidence and strong characters to deliver

presentations in front of their classmates and teachers. Minimizing the teacher’s talking time and maximizing the

students’ talking time. Students w0rk cooperatively in teams. Students start using ICT tools in the classroom. Students get long life learning by collecting information by

themselves and exchanging information with other classmates in groups.

Students’ participation getting better ; 99% of the students participate in most of the activities .

Propositions. Getting training on some programs such as Clip Flair. Cooperating and Exchanging activities with other teachers to

perform them at schools. Preparing evaluation sheet to evaluate students work in groups . Getting a special place to show the students’ work and

production . Promoting the individual work in groups. Having Internet connection at my school

Reconstructions on students thoughts: students were able to gather information from the Internet and convey it into charts.

Students were able to be creative ( writing letters to the Minister of Education and making a report about education in Palestine using moviemaker)

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Reflection- Evaluation

Students Reflection on teaching/learning Process

Student reactions and actions during activities: Students get self-confidence to sit in groups

without being asked to do so. Students get upset to have a class without ICT tools

, team-work or asking them go on the Internet to find information about a specific topic or entering the classroom without markers and A3 papers .

Consideration of spontaneous verbal reactions of students and discussions among students:

At the beginning of applying the activities, students were noisy, unorganized ,and they don’t show full respect to each other.

Then the Students start w0rking cooperatively in teams. They communicate at the classroom in the groups and at homes on Facebook to discuss and share ideas.

Students started to have good ideas, excellent, fluent English during the brain storming and discussion activities .

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Pictures from the teaching process,

worksheets, ICT students activities etc

Presentation of students work

Wp2- T1.3.-“English_ Learning Activity Template _M. Fragkaki

Pictures from the teaching process,

worksheets, ICT students activities etc

Presentation of students work

Wp2- T1.3.-“English_ Learning Activity Template _M. Fragkaki

Pictures from the teaching process,

worksheets, ICT students activities etc

Presentation of students work

Wp2- T1.3.-“English_ Learning Activity Template _M. Fragkaki