The process of education must be accompanied by the
school activities
that help to enrich the process of
teaching, presentation and learning
inside the class
and outside the classroom.
Students learn through their participation in the
attainment of
knowledge by gathering information and
processing it by solving problems
and articulating what
they have discovered.
Each activity below
provides students with opportunities
to deepen their learning by
applying concepts and
articulating new knowledge and many of these
activities
also provide the instructor feedback about the students’
learning.
Definition:
Classroom activities are activities done by student inside
the class as
part of applying or doing the practical part of
the lesson after
listening to the theoretical part which is
presented by the teacher.
Activities outside class enable learners to explore more
knowledge
through visiting libraries , responding to and
using the environmental
realia, using electronic programs
and accessing to the relevant sites
of the internet .
The term "Classroom activities" applies to a wide range
of skill-based
games, strategies and interactive activities
that support students'
educational development.
The goal of all activities is to enhance
students'
understanding, skill or effectiveness in a specific area by
engaging multiple styles of learning. School activities also
serve to
infuse fun into learning as well as bolster student
confidence and the ability to think critically.
Calssification of "CCA":
Subject-Based Activities
Each discrete subject
has a series of topics that can be
taught or reinforced through
activities in which students
directly apply knowledge and information to
discover
meaning.
For instance, educators may use role play in a social
studies class in which students act out opposing sides
of an issue to
better understand the content. In earth
science, a teacher may initiate a
search and discovery
activity in which students identify real world
phenomenon
they have studied.
Technology-Based Activities
There are numerous Internet and computer-based
activities that
allow students to experience multimedia
learning of subjects such as
math and science. These
kind of activities include media literacy and software
and hardware design projects.
Career-Skills Activities
Often
used in secondary education, career skills
activities function as a
method to prepare students
for the world of work. Typically, there is
little time for
activities focusing on career skills within the normal
school day, but out-of-school time and after-school
programs can provide
this level of learning.
Collaboration Activities
Post high school, however, an individual's success relies
largely on her ability to work with others. Collaboration
activities
cultivate skills such as team work,
communication and tolerance. These
activities are
non academic in nature, interactive and enjoyable.
Pair work benefits:
1-It enriches the skills of listening and speaking.
2- It creates fun and allows the teacher to use games,
increase learners' motivation and concentration.
3-If the whole class work in pairs, this will increase
learners' attention.
4- It is used in error correction.
5- It increases language fluency.
6 - It is used as an exam practice.
7-It increases the class dynamics as it enriches
communication.
8-It offers intensive, realistic practice in speaking
and listening.
9-It promotes a friendly classroom ambiance
that is conducive to learning.
Activities inside the class:
1-Pair Work:
Activities which lead to pair work:
Roll the ball
This
can be used to practice any language that requires
a question/answer
pattern. They can roll the ball to
each other and have to say the
appropriate sentence
as they roll the ball.
E.g. “Hello” “Hello”
“What’s your name?”"
How are you today?"....... etc.
Remember the
sentences they
practice should be fairly short.
Information gap
Give
each pair a picture. The pictures should be nearly
the same with two or
three elements missing from each
picture. Without showing each other
the pictures they
should describe the missing objects. They will
practice
color, prepositions of place, and adjectives such as big,
small… Then they can compare their pictures.
Telephone conversations
Sitting
back to back they can practice telephone
language or just simple
exchanges that don’t have to
be connected to the telephone itself.
Sitting back to
back should arouse their interest and help train them
with listening skills. It’s a challenge, but a fun on it.
2-Group Work:
The
basic teacher finishes the theoretical part of the
lesson . He claps
with hands to refer to the practical
part. Pupils are divided into
groups. Each group
gathers according to its interest .
Group A gathers together as all its members like
to do a research through accessing to the internet.
Group B
members gather to practice their design
activities through using the
material available to make
some designs of wood, cartoon, paper and so
on.
Group C members gather to do their research through
watching relevant video films , CDS or through listening
to a cassette tape
Group D
members gather to hold a small meeting to
arrange their agenda to do an
actual visit to the actual
fiend in the environment around to gather
data abut the
lesson assigned.
They will come back after certain period
to do an
interview with the classmates. The teacher will witness,
watch
and evaluate. The classmates will become the
inter viewers and 2 friends
of the group will be the
interviewees.
3-Co-operative learning:
It is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams,
each with
students of different levels of ability, use a
variety of learning
activities to improve their
understanding of a subject.
Each member of a
team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for
helping team mates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement.
Students work through the assignment until all
group members understand
and complete it.
Electronic programs:
Learners can learn through electronic programs like:
the Hot-potatoes program. This program is used for
presenting various
exercises of:
( j.match, J.mix, J.cross, J.puzzle and J.close.)
4-Other activities inside class:
1- The learner can listen and answer exercises in
his workbook.
2- The learner can listen to a tape and speak.
3- The learner can listen to a situation and answer
questions.
4- The learner can read, think and answer and he learner
can read a passage or a topic and write a report.
5- The learner can listen, imagine and guess.
6-The learner can think, compare and evaluate.
7-The learner can correct others' mistakes through
pair work.
8-The learner practices critical thinking through
group work .
9-The teacher can do interaction with his learners to
enable them to participate in learning.
10-The teacher enables learners to share in
actual situations
11-The teacher enables the learner to express his
opinions and solutions to the problems.
12-The
learners answer puzzles, sing learning songs
with jazz
music and do:(
Interactive games, Card games,
Classic games, Miming games and quiz
games ).
13- The learner understands, draws , paints and designs
real things out of the available teaching material.
14-
The learner can consult a dictionary, an encyclopedia,
listen to a tape
and watch a video tape , a CD or a
power-point program.
15-
The teacher gives the learners the chance to listen,
see, listen and
see, watch teaching films and overhead
projectors, demonstrate, act the
roles, exchange roles
to illustrate the learning process and change the
theoretical tropics into real and actual situations.
16- The learner must think, pair, share, notice, observe,
agree with, disagree with,dialogue with himself and with
his peers .
17- How wonderful if the teacher transfers the outer
environment into class as real things to be used in
learning.
18-The learner can learn through doing, dialoguing,
discussion, debates and conferencing.
19-The learner transmits what he learns to others through
the principle of learning through teaching.
20-The role of the teacher becomes the role of a
facilitator, a monitor, a guide and an adviser.
The Role-Play Classroom Activity:
Role Play Classroom
Activity is one of the most commonly
used Communicative Classroom
Activities which is an
excellent way for developing students' Verbal
Communication Competence because it can create
simulating real-life
situations in classroom.
Free Writing / Minute Paper:
These are activities that prompt students to write a
response to an
open question and can be done at
any time during a class. Writing
activities are usually
1-2 minutes, and can focus on key questions and
ideas or ask students to make predictions.
These activities give
students the opportunity to organize
their own thoughts, or can be
collected by the teacher to
gain feedback from the students. Advantages
include
developing students’ abilities to think holistically and
critically, and improving their writing skills.
Ice Breakers
Ice Breakers are low-stakes activities that get students
to interact
and talk to each other, and encourage
subsequent classroom interactions.
They can be
useful at the beginning of the semester: for example
,
asking students to introduce themselves to each other
and what they
would like to learn in the course.
Advantages of icebreakers include:
participation of
each student, the creation of a sense of community
and
focusing students’ attention on material that will
be covered during the
class period.
Think–Pair–Share
This type of activity first asks students to consider a
question on
their own, and then provides an opportunity
for students to discuss it
in pairs, and finally together
with the whole class. The success of
these activities
depends on the nature of the questions posed.
This
activity works ideally with questions to encourage