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Pro-ELT Teacher Training MaterialsLevel: (B1& B2)

Expectations: Y Chart & Think, Pair, Square, Share

Time: 25 minutesAims: To allow teachers to think about what they expect from themselves, their peers and their trainers. This activity is designed to be an introductory task, to be conducted in lesson one. Its a good idea to set out expectations from the first lesson to provide some structure, and also to act as a guideline that can be referred back to in later lessons.

This also deals with the fact that these classes may be very different from the ones they attend on other development programmes so guide them quite a lot as you are setting the climate for your interactive training room. You also need to complete it and at the end, project up your own list. This is important as you are showing them your expectations. Procedure: Stage 1 Y Chart

a) Project up these headings:What do we expect from ourselves, our peers and our trainer?

Attendance/Punctuality Attention/Participation

Support for each other

Get teachers to add to the list.b) Ask the teachers to work individually. They draw a big Y in their notebooks, which separates the page into three sections. Then, ask them label each section with the following headings Me, Peers, Trainer. You fill in 2 areas: Myself, My learners.Time the teachers (1 min per section = total 3 mins) to write down what expectations they associate with: Themselves, Each Other, Their trainer. This is stage 1 Think (working individually).Stage 2 Think, Pair, Square, Share

a) Stage 2 Pair: Time the teachers (3mins) to discuss the ideas brainstormed in their Y charts with a partner. Encourage them to write down any ideas their partner has that they may not have thought of in their own charts.

b) Stage 3 Square: Ask two pairs to join together to discuss this further (3mins). Again, any new ideas that they think are good should be written into their own charts.

c) Stage 4 Share: The whole class comes together to discuss this. Time the teachers (3mins). Stage 3 - Feedback

a) Ask the class to feedback their ideas. Record them and email them to the class. This can serve as an informal contract made between you and the class, and it is good to have this as record to return to in future lessons, if needed. b) Project up your expectations in the two categories: Myself and My learners. c) Ask the teachers to think about how they could use this with their own learners, especially if they are going to move into a different way of teaching them. It could be done in Bahasa Malay if the students are very low level, then translated into simple English.d) At the end of the whole first day of interactive activities invite them to think as they go away about any other expectations they now have as a result of working in this way. Ask them to add these in the following week.

Contributed by: Carrie Bewley The British Council, 2013

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