Values for ELT #2 - Work

Values for ELT

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Andrés Ramos

To find out the concepts, methodology, style, and sources supporting this series for

Values Teaching, check out “Values for ELT: Introduction And Framework” at

http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-0-intro-framework-30932000

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Are You Tired of…..

… dreams not come true yet?

… unfinished business?

… just longing to get ahead but going very slowly?

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Get up and do something!!

What Is Work All about?

“Activity that involves physical or mental effort […]

something produced by a writer, painter, musician, or

other artist; the repairing and building of something.”

Macmillan English Dictionary Online

“ Activity in which one exerts strength or faculties

to do or perform something; sustained physical or

mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve

an objective or result.”

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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Now, let’s see work for ELT.

Talk The Talk about Work:

• - What do you do (for a living) ? - I’m a…

• I’m working (on / for)…

• I work (at / for / with)…

• I do (something) every (expressions of frequency)

• (Just) do it!

• I’ve been working on / making an effort /striving to (do something)…

• I’ve endeavored to (doing something)...

• “Let’s get serious about business”

• “I’ll get down to it.”

• I’m committed to getting (something) done…

• (someone) has / possesses a (not so) good / strong / hard work

ethic which enables / encourages (them) to / prevents (them) from…

Ways to assist students in practicing this, next!

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Walk The Walk towards Work…

Along with children:

• Engage in creative activities by helping students persist,

enjoy the process, and celebrate the finished creation.

• Include indvidual or team work with an achievable degree

of complexity / challenge, while giving step-by-step

instructions and developing problem-solving skills.

Teens can also walk this way by…

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Along with teens:

• Prompt discussion on effort or work ethic from a reading,

audio file, video, website, anecdote, or prominent case.

Then elicit attitudes towards work among them.

• Help learners relate work to achievement by rewarding the

outcome of a project, community service, or entrepreneurial

effort.

• Considering students’ skills sets, lead them to coach /

assist each other in completing comprehensive tasks.

Adults and professionals can go along!


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Along with young adults & adults or professionals:

• Help them devise new ways to be more effective and

efficient in their academic and business lives, experiment with

those ideas, and report the results back to class.

• Compare own individual and societal beliefs about work

to those in other cultures, organizations, or communities,

and draw conclusions with action points.

A few tricks of the trade to make it happen, next!


Work + ELT Strategies

of Cognitive Nature

Whole Brain Teaching: Include work-promoting

activities that appeal to both brain hemisferes,

i.e. sequences + awareness of emotions / mood,

or partial facts + 360° perspective.

Mutiple Intelligences: Plan work-fostering

practice that also develops visual-spatial, logical,

mathematical, musical, kinesthetic, etc. skills.

Good for the brain! How about language acquisition?

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ESP: Ask students to share perfomance-

enhancing techniques in their disciplines

and integrate them in (out-of) class

language skills practice.


of Linguistic Nature

Didactics: Use Scaffolding procedures for

class practice on the value of work to help

students effectively streamline efforts and

achieve results.

No, we’re not leaving IT out. See next!


Mobile Learning: Get students to

create scripts, podcasts, or memes

with standard mobile / tablet apps.


of Digital Nature

Blended Learning: Instant-poll students on

attitudes towards work, or use IWB to

collaborate on a work-promoting exercise.

Gamification: Use scheduling apps to plan /

simulate business activity, or city / farm management

apps to play and keep a journal on progress.

Let’s see how all this connects across the curriculum.


Work, The Perfect Match for…

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• Science: Encourage students during trial & error stages.

• Art: Try more challenging techniques for painting, modeling…

• Math: Perform larger arithmetic operations.

• Physical Education: Set fitness goals and train for them.

• Biology / Physics / Chemistry: More demanding experiments.

• History: Make timelines, summary tables, comparative analyses.

• Literature: Understand and emulate authors’ styles.

• Music: Help students practice more complex works.

• Extracurricular clubs: Organize and engage in outreach.

• Engineering: Achieve efficiency gains for advance deadlines.

• Management: Analyze and balance workloads.

• Pure / Applied Sciences: Conduct more ambitious research.

• Performing Arts: Increase production values.

Last but not least, inspiration!

Inspiration from Work

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

Anne Frank

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“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the

thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you

have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

Margaret Thatcher

“Do you know a hard-working man? He shall be

successful and stand before kings!”

Proverbs 22:29 (TLB)

Our next month’s value: Initiative

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More Values for ELT

What you’re about to see: Cover slides of the

previous and next parts of this series and links thereto.

Values for ELT

PERSEVERANCE

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Andrés Ramos

The first installment of this series, available at

http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-1-perseverance

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Values for ELT

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Andrés Ramos

The third installment of this series, available at

http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-3-initiative

INITIATIVE

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Values for ELT

WORK

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Andrés Ramos

To find out the concepts, methodology, style, and sources supporting this series for

Values Teaching, check out “Values for ELT: Introduction And Framework” at













