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From language lessons to life lessons
Edmund Dudley
Webinar for Lithuania
19th March 2020
In this webinar

• language skills and life skills

• collaborative and co-operative skills

• mindsets for learning

• grit and resilience

• setting the right example

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In this webinar

• language skills and life skills

• collaborative and co-operative skills

• mindsets for learning

• grit and resilience

• setting the right example

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Language skills and life skills
Paired task

Students have different

skills and strengths,
e.g.
- vocabulary skills
- observation skills

When working with

mixed pairs, do
activities that exploit
these differences
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What a waste!

• Where was the picture taken?

• What was happening in the picture?
• Two things were open. What were they?
• How many of the things in the bin can you remember?
• Was all of the rubbish in the bin unusable?
• Why do we throw so much away?
• What do you think about this?
• Do you have any suggestions?

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Language skills and life skills
Which ones do you teach?

Language skills Life skills

• the four skills (LSRW) • working with others

• grammar • avoiding distractions
• vocabulary • finding solutions
• pronunciation • handling setbacks
• developing healthy
habits

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In this webinar

• language skills and life skills

• collaborative and co-operative skills

• mindsets for learning

• grit and resilience

• setting the right example

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Collaborative and co-operative skills
What is the difference?

What do you think this word

means?

If you don’t know, guess…

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Collaborative and co-operative skills
What is the difference?
collaboration
• a way of working together What do you think this word
• involves pair work and means?
group work
• can be project work

co-operation
• a way of learning together If you don’t know, guess…
• can result from pair work
and group work
• students learn from each
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other
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Collaborative and co-operative skills
Ideas for co-operative work:
peer explanation
peer teaching
 learn from each other

Ideas for collaborative work:

pair work
project work
 create further examples
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Pair work and group work
Collaborative work
Activities to try:
• pose like the people in the book
• differences and similarities
• stories from pictures

Tip: Try this towards the end of a

lesson

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I ♥ Vilnius

The 2018 Mercer Quality of Living survey ranked 450 cities;

a number of different factors are taken into account, e.g.:

Vilnius= 81st
Which do you want to see: some capitals
in the region ranked higher than Vilnius?
Or some that were ranked lower?

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I ♥ Vilnius
Higher-ranked capitals in the region

Ljubljana = 74
Budapest = 76
Bratislava = 80
Vilnius = 81st

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I ♥ Vilnius
Lower-ranked capitals in the region

Vilnius = 81st
Warsaw = 82nd
Tallinn = 86th
Riga = 90th

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I ♥ Vilnius
What does your choice reveal?

Ljubljana = 74
Budapest = 76
Bratislava = 80

Vilnius = 81st
Warsaw = 82nd
Tallinn = 86th
Riga = 90th

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In this talk

• language skills and life skills

• collaborative and co-operative skills

• mindsets for learning

• grit and resilience

• setting the right example

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Fixed mindset v growth mindset
Carol Dweck

Fixed mindset Growth mindset

ability is fixed ability can be developed

talent matters hard work matters

be better than others be better than you were

avoid challenges enjoy challenges

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Growth mindset
The importance of effort, the power of yet

“your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your
efforts.” Dweck

I can’t do this. I can’t do this yet.

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Growth mindset
What can teachers do?

Evidence suggests it is hard to teach growth mindset

However, it can be learned. What we can do:

• praise students for effort, not intelligence

• remember the power of yet
• turn I don’t know into an opportunity to learn
• encourage speculation

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Developing confidence

Oracy: using spoken language confidently and effectively

It’s not just about language!

Other components of oracy skills:

• physical
• cognitive
• social and emotional

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Developing confidence

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In this talk

• language skills and life skills

• collaborative and co-operative skills

• mindsets for learning

• grit and resilience

• setting the right example

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Grit
The importance of effort

Two components:
passion (staying focused)
perseverance (bouncing back from setbacks)

talent x effort = skill

skill x effort = achievement

Angela Duckworth Grit

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SLANT
Helping students develop useful habits

S = Sit up in class
L = Listen to the teacher
A = Ask questions
N = Nod your head when listening
T = Track the speaker with your eyes

(used in KIPP schools in NY)

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Making an effort in class
‘joint hardship’

Do writing tasks together

• students can foster a sense of joint hardship (Dörnyei)
• they work together, practising important skills
• pain is inevitable; suffering is optional

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In this talk

• language skills and life skills

• collaborative and co-operative skills

• mindsets for learning

• grit and resilience

• setting the right example

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Shaping attitudes and beliefs
A checklist for modelling helpful attitudes

As teachers, we should:
• look beyond language when appraising students
• reinforce effective habits
• be a role model for positive attitudes and beliefs
• be a guide and a warden
• give the students – and ourselves – time to grow better

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From language lessons to life lessons
Edmund Dudley
Webinar for Lithuania
19th March 2019