Support Strategies and Meeting the Needs of All Learners

Support Strategies and meeting the needs of all learners

Day 7 : 16^th October 2014
Session : 1 (09.00 – 10.30)
Slot : Support strategies and meeting the needs of all learners
Tutor : Peter Ellis

Classroom Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session, students will have to:

• know about the focus of assessment in CLIL contexts.
• be able to identify the focus of assessment in different examples of curricular activities.
• provide an opportunity for you to discuss the focus and purpose of feedback.

By the end of the session, lecturers will have to:

• ensure that learners are aware of learning outcomes.
• think about how to support learners before and during assessment and when it is appropriate or inappropriate to do so.

Classroom Activities

Activity 1: Brainstorming

Discuss these two questions:

1. When do you give students feedback?
2. How do you give students feedback?

Suggested Answers

Activity 2

Mark student’s work based on the worksheet given. 

Activity 3

Write the instruction of Kati’s letter. 

Suggested answer

Write an informal letter to people whom you’re not seen for a while. Give them your news and make a request.

Activity 4

How do you ask the students to write letter? 

Suggested answer

      

   

Reflection

Support strategies are really essential for learners as Malaysian learners use English language as a second language (L2). Teachers are expected to support learners with various learning strategies as to accommodate learning in the lesson and provide language needs. By giving some different tasks for learners, I believed it could promote autonomous learning in the classroom. 

Suggestion 

Support strategies can be provided in various ways in one teaching and learning process. Teachers can modify the assessment or any classroom activities that can help learners to deliver their answers orally in written tasks. When learners become autonomous, they will require more language forms and less learning support.

Prepared by

FARIDATUL JANA MOHD NOOR

BATU PAHAT COMMUNITY COLLEGE