1. Teaching Young Learners
By Leandra Dias
@llea_dias

2. Today`s agenda
-Some true facts about teaching children
-Piaget, Vygotsky, Brunner
-Things to consider when you teach children
-Teaching children for life

3. Some true facts about children
-Children are more enthusiastic and lively as learners.
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-They want to please their teacher rather than their peer group
-They get easily distracted and demotivated.
-They need to be noticed and heard.
-Children are more enthusiastic and lively as learners .
-Children are often less embarrassed than adults to perform tasks.
-Children struggle to understand meta language.

4. Learning from experts
Vygotsky
Piaget Bruner
The child as an active learner
The child as social
Language for cognitive growth

5. When you teach children
- Tasks and Skills development
-Classroom management
-Assessment

6. Classroom Management
Classroom Management
Teacher X Students
STT X TTT
Instructions
Voice and Eye contact
Lesson Stages
Routines
Teaching Environment Behaviour

7. -- Tasks and Skills development
Tasks and Skills development
Songs Stories
-Reading
-Listening
-Writing
-Speaking Games
Playfulness

8. --Assessment
- Realistic expectations
-Focus
-Psychological issues -Achievement
-Feedback and self-assessment
-Record Keeping

9. Teaching Children for life
CLIL
Teaching across the curriculum

10. lleandradias@hotmail.com
@llea_dias
www.eltcandyland.blogspot.com
Discovery teaching involves not so much the process of leading students
to discover what is `out there`, but rather, their discovering what is in
their own heads.
Bruner, The Relevance of Education.
Thank you very much !!!!