Teaching Tools.

Learning

Learning is more powerful and dynamic with tools that

are already right in front of you – and it’s up to

educators to impress this on students in the classroom.

When you bring real things and authentic daily- life

situations into the classroom, listening becomes

discovering, interest becomes wonder, and passive

 learning becomes active exploration. Lessons

come to life with touch, motion, and sound.

1-Teacher"s Tools

1-Lesson Plan.

2-Smart Phone.

3-Curriculum Design.

4-Curriculum Analysis.

5-Worksheet Generator.

6-Curriculum Development.

7-Share in the international education Forums and blogs.

8-My own international education website:

(www.bchmsg.yolasite.com)

9-Communication network:  emails, social media sites,

zoom network

10-Teacher's Registers: (Statistics, Training Units,

 Staff meetings,

Lectures, Conferences, Standards forms,

Standards Tests, Follow up,

Activities Plan, Bank of Questions, Learners' Portfolio,

Quiz and

Contests Register, Video lessons, Scripts lessons

and Internet lessons

, Learners' Researches, reports and Classroom

Management register...)

2-Teaching Aids

A teaching aid is a tool used by the teacher as a facilitator

 to the process of teaching and learning inside the

classroom.  It is one of the means by which we,

as teachers bring life into the theoretical texts by

 bringing environment inside the classroom indirectly. 

Also, it is a means of personification to the concrete

texts in the students' books.  The final purpose remains

 as a means of relating teaching with the environment

that students live in and communicate with.

A teaching aid is a means of bringing environment into

class to give life to theoretical learning.  It is a means

to involve learners physically, mentally, emotionally and environmentally.

A teaching aid can involve the learners physically

through using his senses and acting, mentally through

 using his mind and thinking, emotionally through his

excitement and environmentally through looking at

 pictures that express the daily life we live. Have you

 wondered what a teacher is? He is an audio-visual

aid of teaching.

Teaching Aids.

They include:

(Cards, Charts, grids, Pictures, Drawing, photos,

magazines, worksheets, mind-mapping. Technology,

 Video, digital material, data show, CDs,

Electronic program, Dictionary, Websites,

the computer, the internet, E-Book, Intelligent board,

 Blackboard, Realia, actual fields, Real situations,

Online Dictionaries, Graffic Organizers, virtual

tours of their latest exhibits,The real daily

environmental things......

Importance :

1) Motivation

Teaching aids motivate the students so that they can

learn better.

2) Clarification

Through teaching aids , the teacher clarify the subject

matter more easily.

3) Discouragement of Cramming

Teaching aids can facilitate the proper understanding to

 the students which discourage the act of cramming.

4) Increase the Vocabulary

Teaching aids helps to increase the vocabulary of the

 students more effectively.

5) Saves Time and Money

Teaching through using aids takes a shorter time

 than traditional teaching that depends on lecturing

and more repetition from the side of the teacher.

There will be no need to re-explain the lesson once

 more, as the learners have learnt the content through

using all their senses and emotion. 

Here, money is saved.

6) Classroom Live and active

Teaching aids make the classroom live and active.

7) Avoids Dullness

The only method of teaching here, is the wooden

blackboard and the chalk to write with. Perhaps,

the teacher uses flash cards and wall sheets in very

 few lessons and the purpose is for show not for

 knowledge or teaching.

The role of technology is restricted to enabling the

learners to visit the lonely school computer laboratory,

once a month and that is also for show.

Examples: 

• What is a poster?

• What is a chart?

• Electronic programs

• What is a calendar?

• What is a flash card?

• What is a flip chart?

• What is a word slide?

• What is an easy reader?

• What is a syllable wheel?

• What is an alphabet book?

• What is an alphabet chart?
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  What are word building cards?

• What are sentence building cards?

• What is a sentence building grid?

In active learning, both the teacher and the learners can use

electronic learning programs like The Sage program,

The Hot Potatoes program, The lingoes program,

The Celestia program, Jing program, Free-Mid map

program , Chemistry crocodile program and the

electronic lesson plan for the teacher.

Kinds of active teaching aids:

. Visual Aids

. Audio Aids

. Audio - Visual Aids

1) Visual Aids

The aids which use sense of vision are called Visual aids.

"3-Teaching Materials"

Examples

Teaching materials can refer to a number of teacher

resources; however, the term usually refers to concrete

examples, such as worksheets or manipulative

(learning tools or games that students can handle to

help them gain and practice facility with new knowledge

 -- e.g. counting blocks).

Teaching materials are different from teaching

 "resources," the latter including more theoretical

 and intangible elements, such as essays or support

from other educators, or places to find teaching materials.

Teaching resources  / Material

They include:

A-The actual daily- life sites and environmental realia.

B-Concrete teaching Material

.e,g.(Book, classroom supplies for

teachers, Realia, CD, Video tape, tablet, iPad, Mac,

and Apple TV ..)

C- Theoretical teaching material. e.g.(Workshops,

Training units)

D-Electronic teaching  programs:

( Word program, Excel program, Power-point program,

 Access program, MS picture management program,

 Movie-maker program, Free-mind program, Lingoes

 program, Celestia program, Yanka program,

Anki program, Jing program, Hot potatoes program,

 MS Mathematics program, the Sage program,

Chemistry crocodile program, Physics Crocodile

program and a lot of other electronic programs. 

Electronic teaching enables the teacher to do

an electronic lesson plan and give an electronic

lesson presentation.)

Top 5 teaching materials:

Blackboard

Blackboard is one of the most capable teaching tools

in the space. Educators can upload grades, monitor

student performance, and administer tests.

 Teachers can also input assignments and manage

their syllabus.

Students can access all the information their teachers

 add to their class page, check their grades,

and complete assignments. Blackboard

 combines all those features with an outstanding

design to deliver a fine tool for the student and

teacher, alike.

Classroom 2.0

Classroom 2.0 is a social network for teachers.

 Educators can chat, send messages, and exchang

e ideas on how to best educate students.

 I found Classroom 2.0 to be an ideal place

for teachers to find best practices to create

 a more effective educational environment.

Many of the educators discuss ways to use the

 Web to enhance classroom instruction.

Engrade

Engrade enables learners to monitor grades and

see how they've performed on quizzes. All that

information is provided by the teachers, who can

also customize their Engrade grade books, input

scores from anywhere they have Web access,

and create instruction plans for students to download.

Engrade is a powerful tool that's easy to use for both

students and teachers. 

My grade book

With the option to create online assignments,

manage grade books, administer quizzes,

communicate with parents, and provide access

 to students, My Grade Book literally creates a

virtual classroom online.

Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube is a video site for educators.

 Teachers can upload instruction videos,

which can be viewed by anyone anywhere

 in the world. Videos can show classroom

 instructions on topics ranging from biology to

 Shakespeare.

There are no limits on the content.

Click below:

Teaching Styles.

Engrade

Engrade enables learners to monitor grades and see

 how they've performed on quizzes. All that information

 is provided by the teachers, who can also customize

 their Engrade grade books, input scores from anywhere

 they have Web access, and create instruction plans

for students to download. Engrade is a powerful tool

that's easy to use for both students and teachers. 

My grade book

With the option to create online assignments, manage

grade books, administer quizzes, communicate with

parents, and provide access to students, My Grade

Book literally creates a virtual classroom online.

Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube is a video site for educators.

Teachers can upload instruction videos, which

can be viewed by anyone anywhere in the world

. Videos can show classroom instructions on topics

 ranging from biology to Shakespeare.

There are no limits on the content.

  Click below: Teaching Styles.

Teaching methods.

They include:

(Active learning method, Projects, Inquiry-based

teaching method, discovery method, Acting the scenes,

 Pointing, Role-playing, Elicitation, CLT Method,

 Internet-based teaching method, Brainstorming

 method, Electronic programs teaching, Classroom

Network, observation, imitation, repetition, Music,

Songs, Games, Storytelling, Puzzles, Riddles,

Story theatre, Solving problems, Playing roles,

Changing roles,pair work, Dialoguing,

Group work, Co-Curriculum activities, Involvement,

 Engagement, Debating, Interviewing,

Practical learning, analysis, Practice and

research, Synthesis, Evaluation, Imagination.......)

The teaching methods are various and several.

Click below:

The Teaching methods

Teaching Skills include:

A-Language Skills (Listening-Speaking-Reading-Writing).

B-Teacher's Skills (Guiding, interviewing, Dialoguing,

Observation)

C-Learner's Skills (Interactivity, Participation,

Pair work, peer work, acting, elicitation,Group work,

Dialoguing, Practice, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation,

 imagination, Exploration and Discovery)

The 5 main Language skills: 

1-Listening Skill / listening Sub-skills / Listening Activities.

2-Speaking Skill / Speaking sub-skills / Speaking Activities..

3- Reading Skill  / Reading Sub-skills / Reading Activities.

4-Writing Skill / Writing Sub-skills / Writing Activities.

6-Teaching activities

They include:

A-Co-curriculum activities.       (Inside classroom)

B-Extra-curriculum Activities.   (Inside school)

C-Extra-curriculum Activities.   (Outside  school)

1-Classroom Activities.

Online DigitalTeacher's Tools :

1-Google DOC's.         

2-Edmodo

3-Socrative                    4- Lesson-cast              5-Glogster EDU

6-SchoolTube:               7-Storybird:                   8--Free Rice 2.0

9--Flashcard Machine  10--Bitstrips for Schools 11-Kidblog

12-DK Instant Expert    13-TED-ED                   14-Videonot es

Other means of teaching technology:

-My smart phone.

-My international education site:

 (www.bchmsg.yolasite.com)

1-Click her to go to Technology in Teaching

2-Using mobile phones in Teaching and learning.

3-Using Blogs and social media in Teaching.

4-Online Corpus-based Learner Dictionary.

5-Film Circles:Scaffolding Speaking For EFL Students.

6-The mobile Phone in teaching.

Have you ever thought about how each classroom

 teaches things differently? In this article, we answer

what are teaching styles, why are there multiple teaching

 styles, what are the different styles, and which style

 works the best today?

8-Teaching Styles

Why different teaching styles?

9-Learning Styles

To apply learning styles theory to English learning and

teaching, we must know what learning style is.

Learning has taken place when we observe a change

 of learner behavior resulting from what has been

experienced.

Similarly, we can recognize the learning style of an

 individual student only by observing his overt behavior.

Learning style is a consistent way of functioning that

reflects the underlying causes of learning behavior

 Learning styles are internally basic characteristics of

individuals for the intake or understanding of new

information.

1-Learner listen, speak and communicate.

2-Learners look, Listen and point to things or people.

3-They speak and do.               4- They speak and practice.

5-They read and write.              6-They sing and dance.

7-They sing and do.                  8-They ask and answer.

9-They imitate others.               10-They act the scenes.

11-They draw and paint.          12-They think, pair and share.

13-They participate

14-They interact with the teacher, peer, book and technology.

15-They practice. They analyze, synthesis and evaluate.

16-They imagine, create and innovate.

17-They choose, match, fill in, underline, correct, complete,

 read and answer, read and skim, read and scan, explore

 and invent.

18-They support, criticize and elect. 

19-They play and rejoice.

20-They use electronic programs and the Tablet.

21-They access to :

online websites, Google forms, documents,

wordpress, logo-maker, internet readings,

Kahoot, educational social media means,

11-Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment includes:

1-Pre-assessment:

It is a measurement of the learning received during

the class as part of comparing what the student knew

before in a pr-test and after the class experience in

a post test.

2-During assessment:

1-It is usually done to gauge where the learner is.

2-It is helpful to pinpoint if the learner is progressing

or having a misconception that needs to be cleared up .

3-It is either formative or summative.

4-It is graded or ungraded.

3-Post Assessment:

1-It is used to determine if the learner has met the

 learning outcomes. 

2-It is either formative or summative.

3-It is graded.

Evaluation: