Rocking English with Pamelyn Tan-Corsi

There’s no 1 “right” way to truly connect with kids. 💗

(Teacher2Teacher)

🎉 Here's to YOU.

On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. …

Thailand's many treasures! Khao Hin Phap Pha, a cliff with layered rocks dubbed as "Pancake Rock" by many,along the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat.



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The surf's eternal thunder booms against Belize's barrier reef, Belize.

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." —Sir Edmund Hillary

📸 Renan Ozturk

Image by Steven Robinson

The graces the night sky over Dunnottar Castle, Scotland 🔭

Camping with style

10 Best Outdoor Camping Locations in Australia Under the stars Noosa North Shore, Sydney's Cockatoo Island, Narawntapu National Park, wilderness of the Kimberley, camping at Cable Bay, drama at Vivonne Bay

Sounds like fun !!!

10 secret English beaches for a family day out Escaping the crowds is all the more important this summer. From Northumberland to Devon, we pick some of our favourite bustle-free beaches for a day on the coast with the kids.

Breathtking view

See the breathtaking beauty of America’s least visited national park

The pain is part of living

What makes life worth living in the face of death In this deeply moving talk, Lucy Kalanithi reflects on life and purpose, sharing the story of her late husband, Paul, a young neurosurgeon who turned to writing after his terminal cancer diagnosis. "Engaging in the full range of experience -- living and dying, love and loss -- is what we get to do,"...

Ones need to feel valued and respected to have a meaningful and positive connection.

An introduction to positive psychology: Wellbeing for your classroom.

Teaching CLIL: Content and language integrated learning

The underpinings of this type of learning is :
a) content
b) cognition
c) communication
d) culture

Building of global citizens

Do you believe it,
Teachers are question machines.
Seemingly, we ask 300 questions a day!!!

The focus of this approach is communicating ideas,
opinion, feelings etc using
the Bloom taxanomy as a guide
for tasks and activities.

I like that we integrate the content and language to develop higher order thinking skills in learners.

In this approach you encourage learners to observe, analyse, synthesize the subject matter/ cultural content and be motivated to communicate the knowledge they have on the subject.

Great way to create creative and critical thinking content that will motivate students to learn.

Hope you are able to use the lesson ideas given by the presenter.

I have enjoyed learning and hope to use the strategies shared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QU6uQtGY2Q&feature=share

Speaking is more than
saying words!

Indeed, a teacher has to think about ways to use speaking lessons not to get proof for learning but
use speaking lessons as
an opportunity to learn.

Speaking lessons are important for interaction, production, social, pragmatic and discourse purposes.

It has to have an action-oriented and collaborative approach.

The presentation introduced 3 framework to make speaking lessons more effective and meaningful.

Through this webinar, I had a better understanding on using the CEFR framework which is emphasized in our curriculum now.

Hope the sharing of the slides from the webinar will help you further think of your practices for speaking lessons in your own class.

I love the immersive task approach:
a) Lead-in : Questioning method
b) Preparation : Task
c) Decide
d) Discuss
e) Present

Life competencies Approach
a) Aims & Objectives : Identify the competencies
b) Problem-solving
- list suggestions
c) Reflect ( the different suggestions)
d) Share ( compare-contrast the suggestions )

I really enjoyed this webinar on Making sense of how we develop life competencies through ELT.

The speaker was knowledgeable and gave such a fantastic presentation of ideas.

I love the framework introduced
and how it can be used to find OPPORTUNITIES to build 21st century skills/ life skills for our learners.

This competencies encompass 3 components; knowledge, skills and attitude. Truly, we need a changed and shift mindset to create powerful and effective learning.

The framework is liken a map we can use to create opportunity for greater learning.

I am excited to use the framework for opportunistic learning to inculcate creative and critical thinking skills in our learners.

Today there were over 5K participants in this webinar on Activities to engage and motivate teenage learners.

It was a good one hour presentation of activities that can be used in a language class to motivate teen students.

Takeaways:
1. Have plans and aims
2. Profile your students and class
3. Activities
a) warmers
b) types of activities
- introductions
- two truths and one lie
- picture flash
- vocabulary
c) immerse task
- which I love as it is student-centred and allowing meaningful production. (eg. Think values, Talk to others )
4. Feedback: help make sense to the tasks

Conclusion:
To find success,
teachers have to
a) be positive (happy and engaging)
b) build trust
c) be mentor to their students
d) to have illusion of choice

To increase self-esteem and motivation, we need to build confidence and meaningful use of the language that connects to the values and beliefs of the learners.

Good to refresh ideas and find new ones to make teaching and learning effective.

I am loving the Cambridge University webinars.

What is your idea of activities you like to see in your children’s classroom for language learning?

Do give ideas in the comment box.

Share a little kindness.

What did you do today to display kindness. Do share with us.

Tomorrow is the start of Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 and this year's theme is kindness 🧡 Here is your challenge, get involved and send us your pictures!

Love TEDxShorts.
Inspiring stories to keep your ideas spinning.

TEDx SHORTS Start each day with short, eye-opening ideas from some of the world’s greatest TEDx speakers. Hosted by Atossa Leoni, TEDx SHORTS will give you the chance to immerse yourself in surprising knowledge, fresh perspectives, and moving stories from some of our most compelling talks. Less than 10 minute...

This year with the pandemic, we didn’t get to do farewell.

It is really a cliff hanger as we couldn’t have a good closing for the year.

Yet, my heart long to tell the students that
we care and
we want to honour you
with your stories of struggles and hard work.
We honour you
for keeping strong
in the midst of adversity.

Hope you will write something on celebrating life in this time of MCO.

Hope to hear your stories in the comment.

The laugh of the day.

Humour is the essence of life!

Laugh!
It brings lots of happiness.

Bull's bid to scratch 'itchy bum' causes power cut Four-year-old Ron left three villages without power after knocking a transformer box off an electricity pole.