teaching teens
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The TeenageLearner
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Ask Me!
Today’s Agenda
Who is the teenage learner?
The 12 Dos (Anderson article)
Lesson Ideas that work!It’s your turn!
COW
A Vision of Students Today
Who is the teenage learner?
What words describe the teenaged learner?
Words which describe Teens
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."- Henry Ford
A thoughtful pause
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
- Mark Van Doren
A thoughtful pause
What Teens Need to Know Prior to Learning:
• Why are we doing this?
• How can it help me?
• How can I make it MINE?
1. Teenagers seek meaning and significance.
Key Assumptions
Key Assumptions
2. Teenagers want to know about the NOW!
3. Teenagers crave authenticity and the
“true”.
Key Assumptions
4. Teenagers are the ultimate egotists. ME!
Key Assumptions
5. Teenagers are wondering what others are thinking about them!
Key Assumptions
The Digital Divide
A Dozen Dos
1.Use Music!
Teens live through the feelings provoked by music. It is a window to their learning soul.
Music in your classroom
A Dozen Dos
2. Use Current Material!
Teens want to be hip. They love anything new and personally relevant.
Breakingnewsenglish
Pictures, Visuals, Vocabulary
A Dozen Dos
3. Use Team Work!
Teens are “hard wired” for relationships. They thrive on projects, peer interaction and group work.
A Dozen Dos
4.Use Acting!
Teens want to express themselves. Role playing allows them to express all their inner, conflicting feelings in a safe manner. Example.
A Dozen Dos
5. Use Choice! A or B Teens are trying to be
independent. Giving them some choice and control motivates them. – Extensive Reading
A Dozen Dos
6.Use what they know!
Teens know LOTS and have diverse experiences. Use their interests and passions in the class content!
Grammar Poems
A Dozen Dos
7. Use a quick pace!
Teens actually have shorter
attention spans than kids! Keep changing things up!
A Dozen Dos
8.Use Activity! Use Creativity Teens minds and body’s are
changing and they need to experience and practice their
new “physical” self!
A Dozen Dos
9. Use Proactive Class Control!
Teens want a teacher in control but will reject any authority. Use positive behavior management!
A Dozen Dos
10. Use L1 at times!
Teens will respond to L1 discipline and are mature enough to “switch gears” and it can help misunderstanding.
A Dozen Dos
11. Use Games!
Teens are highly competitive in the sense they want to show off. Let them show off!-- BAAM / Not like the other things
A Dozen Dos
12. Use their “desire”!
Teens want to express themselves.Projects, presentations, posters …can allow them to personalize the learning.
“Show me and I forget;Teach me and I remember; Involve me and I learn.”
- B. Franklin
A Thoughtful Pause
Your Turn – Lesson Recipe
Mr. Morton
Teachers? Who needs them?
HOLE IN THE WALL PROJECT
Video in the Classroom
Silent Videos – Mr. Bean
Wallace and Grommit
Nat. Film Board of Canada Shorts
Can you be a 21st century teacher?
THE END
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Discuss: Lesson Ideas.
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