Name: Tamar Remishvili
Title: Activation of student’s schemata(previous knowledge) before reading a new text.
Expected audience: Newly entered teachers from Gori schools or alumni from regional university and teachers from nearest villages. The topic is useful for inexperienced teachers as they don’t use pre-reading activities in case of activation of students’ previous knowledge.
Duration : 60 min.
Objective: By the end of the session teachers will be ready to implement the activation of student’s schemata in the class.
Stage 1- Introduction activity. “Fears and expectations”
Time:10
Aim: at the end of the stage participants will be able to show their fears and expectations and present themselves.
Organization of audience: individual working.
Materials/technology/handouts to be used: papers and pens/pencils.
Stage 2. Pre-reading activity.
Time:20
Aim: at the end of the stage participants will be able to activate student’s previous knowledge.
Organization of audience: working in pairs/groups of 3.
Materials/technology/handouts to be used: markers, flipcharts/board, papers pens/pencils.
Teachers are given a number of words from a text(on the board). they have to predict what kind of text they are going to read, or what story the text tells.
Then they are given whole phrases and get them try to make a story using the words and phrases (different phrases to different pairs / groups ). Give them questions about the text (words and phrases) before they read the text and ask them try to guess the answers.
Stage 3. During reading activity.
Time:10
Aim: at the end of the stage participants will be able to work on the new text after the activation of ss schemata.
Organization of audience: individual/pair working.
Materials/technology/handouts to be used: copies of the text, pens/pencils.
They read the text to see if their own stories and answers were correct. While
reading the text they find any of the words/phrases from the list on the board and cross off the words/phrases they found.
Stage 4: Reflection.
Time:10
Aim: at the end of the stage participants will be able to conduct reflection after teaching.
Organization of audience: asking questions individually, working in pairs/groups. Materials/technology/handouts to be used: markers, flipcharts/board, papers pens/pencils.
I ask participants:
· How did you feel while reading?
· Did you know all the words?
· What made easier your understanding?
· Why is it important to activate student’s schemata ?
I distribute handouts for reading at home and slits of paper and ask to write in pairs or groups 2 things they remember and 1 thing they use in their teaching.
Stage 6: Summing up activity.
Time: 5
Aim: at the end of the stage participants will be able to sum up the stages of the session.
Organization of audience: working in the group.
Materials/technology/handouts to be used: markers, flipcharts/board.
I write the plan of session on the board ,asking participants about the stages and finally ask participants to write how can they adapt the session to their classes.
Stage 7. Evaluation of the participants.
Time: 5
Aim: at the end of the stage participants will be able to evaluate the workshop.
Organization of audience: working individually.
Materials/technology/handouts to be used: questionnaires prepared beforehand, pens/pencils.
Bibliography - The text I will use for the session will be about Smithsonian Institution from internet and my personal experience. Evaluation form.
Expected challenges/difficulties - as I won’t use any electric targets for workshop, the only challenge may be time management. So during the workshop I will reorganize time between stages according the participant’s needs and level.
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