Midnight Run

This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .  Hopefully, you've taken some time to think of how to effectively instruct and model for your new lesson. Your lesson instruction should show evidence of Being sticky: memorable, usable and durable Using teacher talk Keeping the lesson conversational Using one of the two instructional methods: deductive (teach, model, question) or inductive (model, infer, elaborate) Your model should show evidence of Allowing the students to try using the information before providing a model Providing more than one model for the students LESSON 1 Instruct & Model After the Objective Discussion, show the sentences that are used in the warm-up activity. Label each sentence according to what is being talked about. Number of family members/number of siblings Parents’ jobs and/or parents’ likes/dislikes Siblings’ jobs/level of education and/or Siblings’ likes/dislikes Expl...

This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Hopefully, you've taken some time to think of an effective objective discussion for your new lesson. Remember a good objective discussion accomplishes the 4 following tasks: Clearly states the instructional objectives Checks for understanding Establishes specifics Discusses the importance of the objective(s)   LESSON 1 Objective Discussion After ensuring that the students can identify the subject, verb and object in the practice sentences, explain that this is the basic sentence structure and that they will create sentences using this sentence structure. Explain that they will be answering W-H questions using this sentence structure during guided practice. Explain that for their independent practice, they will be asked to create a journal entry about their family using this sentence structure and the main goal is to have their sentences have the...

T his is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Hopefully, you've taken some time to think of a warm up activity for your new lesson. Remember a good warm-up activity accomplishes the 3 following tasks: stimulates recall of prior learning introduces new ideas connects these new ideas to prior learning. Be sure to provide the following: clear content (write all aspects of the warm up, including the vocabulary, materials, and time spent on the activity. All additional resources should be included when possible (quizzes, pictures, PowerPoint, etc.)). easy to understand language engaging activities. LESSON 1 Warm-up Activity Teacher will present a photo of his family and talk about them with model sentences: This is my family I have two brothers My mother works as a businesswoman My father is a professional football player My older brother likes taking photos My younger brother plays tennis We have t...

This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .     Write two or three lesson objectives for that theme . Ideally, the theme should build upon the lesson plan you created in Course 3. Fill out the "lesson objectives" section of the lesson plan template and save it for later. After writing the lesson objectives, suggest one or two methods for assessing the objectives at the end of the lesson. What kind of meaningful project could be used? Explain how students would show their learning. LESSON 1 ✅ BASIC Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to identify the basic parts of simple speech (subject, verbs, object) and will be able to answer W-H questions. Students will be able to answer 5 simple sentences in a correct sentence structure. Students will be able to create at least a 10-sentence journal entry introducing their family members at the end of the lesson to demonstrate their understandin...

  This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Hopefully, you've taken some time to reflect on the questions from Reading 5 and gather your ideas. Using these ideas, write a one to three paragraph description of your teaching techniques.  Which techniques do you use in lesson planning or teaching? How much time do you spend teaching and how much time do you spend allowing students to practice language? Why? How do you motivate students on a daily basis? Do you use warm language, teacher talk, language learning strategies, etc? If so, explain how you use them in class. What are some warm up/guided practice/independent practice/assessment activities you use? Explain how you integrate these activities into your lesson plans and how they are beneficial to the students. How do you evaluate and assess students? Why? TEACHING TECHNIQUE I use various teaching techniques when I teach my stud...

  This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Hopefully, you've taken some time to reflect on the questions from Reading 3 and draft an outline. Using your outline, write a one to three paragraph description of your teaching style. Reflect on the various teaching approaches discussed in Course 2, and which ones appealed to you the most. As a refresher, these are the questions that you should use to guide you in your writing: Which approaches were the most relatable to you and the way you teach? Why did these approaches appeal to you more than others? Were there specific ideas or aspects from certain approaches that you liked? What were they and why did you like them? Who will you be teaching? Elementary, middle or high school students? University students? Business executives? Etc? How will your teaching style best meet the needs of your students and motivate them to learn? TEACHING STYLE...

    This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Capstone Project 1 by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Hopefully, you’ve taken some time to brainstorm, outline and/or pre-write some ideas for your teaching purpose. Using these ideas, write one to two paragraphs describing your teaching purpose. Be sure that your teaching purpose answers the following questions: Why do you teach OR why do you want to teach (if you're not teaching now)? If you are teaching now, what are your short term goals for teaching? For those who are not currently teaching, what do you think your short term goals for teaching *might* be? If you are teaching now, what are your long term goals for teaching? For those who are not currently teaching, what do you think your long term goals for teaching *might* be? TEACHING PURPOSE When I was in college I avoided having a teaching career as much as possible, but after exploring different career paths I figured out that te...

  This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Lesson Design and Assessment by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Week 6 By now you should have a completed lesson plan. Copy and paste the text of each section of the lesson plan template to submit for peer-review. TRAVEL (past tense) - Lesson Plan Basic/Intermediate Business/Materials: Photo / Photo slide of a travelling man and personal travel photo Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to identify the past tense of the verbs. Students will be able to write a two-paragraph essay about what they did on their previous travels using the past tense. Warm-Up & Objective Discussion: Show students photos of people who are travelling. Ask students to describe the photos. List down the verbs that they stated and explain why they should use the past tense and how to use the past tense. Explain that they will be learning about the past tense of verbs and they will write at least a two-paragraph essay...

  This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Lesson Design and Assessment by Arizona State University through Coursera .   Week 5 Look at the objectives you wrote back in Week 2. Create an assessment activity that is aligned to that objective and is authentic. Describe the assessment activity in the "Assessment" section of the lesson plan template and save it for later.  “TRAVEL” Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to identify the past tense of the verbs. Students will be able to write a two-paragraph essay about what they did on their previous travels using the past tense. Warm-Up & Objective Discussion: Show students photos of people who are travelling. Ask students to describe the photos. List down the verbs that they stated and explain why they should use the past tense and how to use the past tense. Explain that they will be learning about the past tense of verbs and they will write at least a two-paragraph essay about the things that t...