Topic 3: Best Practices and Do’s & Don’ts

Best Practices and Do's & Don'ts

Do:

  • Encourage learners to attend, through engaging students in up scaling learning activities and through introducing new and interesting material
  • Encourage learners to participate, through making participation low-risk and high-reward
  • Encourage learners to reflect and review, through suggesting material for reviewing and encouraging reflection.
  • Adjust learning activities on learners’ interests.
  • Give the opportunity to shyer learners to participate in classroom, through creating activities that allow discussions through small groups, or by using exercise and activities that permit a good preparation by learners.
  • Foster reading motivation through taking opportunities for discussion regarding books, movies etc.

 

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Don’ts:

  • Don’t just look up vocabulary words in the dictionary, in order to build vocabulary.

Instead:

oRelate new word to already known words.

oUse vocabulary strategies that promote active engagement of learners

oPromote learners’ discussion

  • Don’t just promote unsupported independent reading, this alone does not foster reading achievement.

Instead:

oKeep coaching and feedback to learners in order to support text selection and reading strategies.

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