Hi, Beijia! I find your lesson really interesting and culturally relevant. The topic is highly relevant to Chinese culture and appropriate for sixth-grade students because this age group has the background knowledge and experience about the Spring festival to process the information in the video and build on vocabulary and sentences in the target language. Also, your lesson is student-centered and communicative. You make full use of authentic materials with cute and colorful images and flash to act as scaffolding to promote understanding. At the same time, the information gap activity can give students a real need to communicate with others. At last, there is just one suggestion for the warm-up activity. Since your students are novice-low, it is better to provide more scaffolding support before getting them into groups for discussion. For students who struggle with starting talking in a task, you can utilize sentence starters and frames to guide students to learn how to share their thoughts.
The very first thing I notice with this lesson plan when starting the activities is that this is a novice-low classroom and immediately the students are asked to discuss. It isn’t specified whether this is to be in English or another language, but of course students cannot discuss anything at a novice-low level yet. Otherwise, the use of visuals and different multimodal activities is great at keeping students engaged. The inclusion of Nearpod and Padlet provide great classroom collaborative tools which can help nurture the community you’re trying to build. I’m interested in where your other standards are coming from. They’re not elaborated on so I don’t know what linguistic competence, thinking ability, cultural character, and learning ability are trying to measure here.
Hi, Beijia!
ReplyDeleteI find your lesson really interesting and culturally relevant. The topic is highly relevant to Chinese culture and appropriate for sixth-grade students because this age group has the background knowledge and experience about the Spring festival to process the information in the video and build on vocabulary and sentences in the target language. Also, your lesson is student-centered and communicative. You make full use of authentic materials with cute and colorful images and flash to act as scaffolding to promote understanding. At the same time, the information gap activity can give students a real need to communicate with others. At last, there is just one suggestion for the warm-up activity. Since your students are novice-low, it is better to provide more scaffolding support before getting them into groups for discussion. For students who struggle with starting talking in a task, you can utilize sentence starters and frames to guide students to learn how to share their thoughts.
The very first thing I notice with this lesson plan when starting the activities is that this is a novice-low classroom and immediately the students are asked to discuss. It isn’t specified whether this is to be in English or another language, but of course students cannot discuss anything at a novice-low level yet. Otherwise, the use of visuals and different multimodal activities is great at keeping students engaged. The inclusion of Nearpod and Padlet provide great classroom collaborative tools which can help nurture the community you’re trying to build. I’m interested in where your other standards are coming from. They’re not elaborated on so I don’t know what linguistic competence, thinking ability, cultural character, and learning ability are trying to measure here.
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