School Activities.

Term

Goal:

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.

Difference:

     Some teachers and learners don't know what school activities, their objectives and plans are and what their kinds are.  The school activities include 2 kinds of activities, co-curriculum and extra-curriculum activities.  These two terms are quite similar in nature, but different in strategy and practice.

     Co-curricular refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences that complement, in some way, what students are learning in school—i.e., experiences that are connected to or mirror the academic curriculum.

      Generally speaking, co-curricular activities are an extension of the formal learning experiences in a course or academic program, while extracurricular activities may be offered or coordinated by a school, but may not be explicitly connected to academic learning. This distinction is extremely fuzzy in practice, however, and the terms are often used interchangeably.

Athletics, for example, are typically considered to be extracurricular activities, while a science fair would more likely be considered a co-curricular activity, given that students are learning science, participation may be required by the school, students may be graded on their entries, or a science teacher may coordinate the fair. Still, in some schools certain athletics activities might be considered “co-curricular,” while in other schools a science fair may be labeled “extracurricular.”

Kinds of these activities:

A-Co-curriculum activities and syllabus:

They are are syllabus -planned Activities.  They are practiced inside the classroom.  They  refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences  that complement, in some way, what students are learning in school—i.e., experiences that are connected to or mirror the academic curriculum. Inside classroom, learners participate in practicing a lot of activities that belong to the course content.

B- "CCA" related to the syllabus:

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.

(ECA)

Activities outside classroom

They are practiced outside classroom inside school.

They include:

• Sports including; soccer, basketball, baseball, scooter, racing, hockey, swimming.

• Performing arts,including ;dance,drama, ballet,choir,and band.

• Creative arts including;painting, drawing and crafts

 A-Inside school

School English Club:

Definition:

It is an activity where learners meet to practice using English in a relaxed informal environment and friendly setting.

They can range anywhere from a robotics club to a film club. These clubs can give you a fun alternative to things you learn in school.

They can also be a great way to make new friends who have the same interests as you. Get out of your comfort zone and join a club that peaks your interest. There are also some ways to form clubs at your school.

Benefits:

It:

1-Encourage participants to bring in their own content.

2-Asks participants questions about their lives.

3-Divides participants into small groups to do activities.

4-Gives participants opportunities to express

themselves creatively through drama, poetry or storytelling.

5-Gives learners fun, humor, freedom, a chance to meet new people

and make new friends.

Activities:

1-Discussions about childhood.

2-Playing music and songs.

3-Giving opinions about books and authors.

4-Online activities.

Click here to go to : School English club.

Other Examples

Bulletin Board and school magazines activity group

Definition:

1-Learners write about English culture every week.

2-They prepare a monthly English school magazine.

Tools:

1-School board in the school court.

2-Big paper sheets for the magazines.

3-Essays about famous people.

Content:

1-School instructions.

2-Wise sayings.

3-Proverbs.

4-Poetry.

5-Cultures.

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Library

Aims:

1-Developing the soul of researching for knowledge.

2-Encouraging independent learning.

3-Providing learners with knowledge about other countries and other people.

4-Developing the soul of share, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creation, and imagination.

Strategy:

1-The selected learners go to the school library once a week.

2-They read about science, literature, Maths, social studies, athletics or arts.

Procedure:

1-Learners collect knowledge. 

2-Learners can visit museums or associations to support their work.

3-This activity is coordinated by school but not graded and not connected to academic learning.

Examples:

School broadcast

Definition:

It is an activity where selected learners introduce regular programs every Sunday morning during the school queue.

Aims:

1-Supporting share, independent learning and researching.

2-Learning responsibility.

3-Self-confidence.

4-Encouraging talents, creation and innovation.

Plan:

This activity is not graded. They are coordinated by school, but not connected to academic learning.

The activity learners group meet to set and discuss the

performance of the weekly English program under

my supervision.

Course content:

1-School instructions and activities.

2-Local community news.

3-Simple political news.

4-General cultural, social, scientific and environmental information.

5-Athletics, space and art news.

5-Geographical and history information about other countries.

Sports

The School Play

Sports

The School Play

B- Outside school

These activities are practiced outside the school.  Learners visit the realistic education sites like museums, hotels, historic monuments, farms, fields and factories to learn practical learning and gain practical experiences out of practical learning to acquire good manners and values. 

Learners learn to do small real projects, researches and reports and to solve problems on their own to pave the way to the independent learning and learning through discovery.

Extra Curriculum Activity

School journeys

Aims:

Linking education to real daily life and the environment.

Strategy:

1-Practical learning.

2-Learning through projects, researches and group work.

3-Usaing direct and indirect environmental material.

4-Encouraging critical thinking(Applicability, analysis, synthesis, evaluation).

5-This activity is not connected to academic learning.

6-It is not graded.

Procedure:

Learners visit realistic education sites like museums, hotels, historic monuments, fields, farms and factories to gain practical experiences by themselves.

 Learners learn to solve problems on their own to pave the way to the independent learning and learning through their own discovery.

Extension:

Learners visit our national museums to explore about the Pharaohs.

Ckick here to go to : A learning and Teaching Environment.

Extra-Curricula activities:

1-Athletics.

2-Visiting fairs and exhibitions

Extra-curricula activities are not connected to academic learning and not graded.

Aims:

The aim of this activity is developing the 4 language skills.

Learners work in pairs and groups practically.

Strategy:

Learning through brainstorming, solving problems, active learning and humor.

Procedure:

1-learners must be mentally, physically, environmentally and  emotionally involved.

2-Learners draw, paint, trace, mime, sing, play music, imitate and point.

3-They walk, listen, observe, speak, read, act, answer, write, play roles, report, use technology, use electronic programs and dialogue.

4-They interact with the teacher, the set-book, the teaching material and the environment.

5-They debate and interview.

6-The learner applies, analyses, synthesizes, evaluates.

7-They are graded.They are connected to academic learning.