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Demand High Teaching - Some Practical Activities BrazTESOL 2014
Demand High Teaching - Some Practical Activities BrazTESOL 2014
Practical Activities
Christopher Thirlaway
@room2chris
chris.recife@icloud.com
www.room2chris.com
Outline
1. Background
2. What is Demand High Teaching
3. Activities which are Demand High
4. A little practice
5. Further Information
6. Questions
Background
Jim
Scrivener
Classroom
performance was good
but there was little
challenge. Sense of
going through the
motions
twtrland.com
Adrian
Underhill
Image retrieved from:
http://www.englishuk.com
What is DemandHigh?
Demand High asks:
* Are our learners capable of more, much more?
* Have the tasks and techniques we use in class
become rituals and ends in themselves? In what ways
do you feel like this, if at all?
* How can we stop covering material and start
focusing on the potential for deep learning?
* What small tweaks and adjustments can we make to
shift the whole focus of our teaching towards getting
Questions
taken from:
that engine of learning
going?
http://demandhighelt.wordpress.com
Tweaks
Deep learning
DEMAND HIGH TEACHING: demand that comes precisely at
the point where the learner is capable of taking the next
steps forward and helping the learner meet that demand,
rather than ignore it. This is a doable demand. (Scrivener &
Underhill, 2012)
A new
methodolog
y
Against other
methodologies
What it isnt?
Not simply making
tasks impossibly
difficult
IATEFL 2013-2014
P-RO-UF
Playful challenge
Repeated opportunities
Upgrade feedback
3xP
Practice
Practice
Practice
Classroom dynamics
Std A / Std B
What was said after the dialogue?
Your turn.
Some feedback...
http://demandhighelt.wordpress.
com/
IATEFL 2013
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2013/sessions/2013
-04-09/how-demand-high
Facebook
Page
www.facebook.com/DemandHighELT
IATEFL 2014
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04
-03/upgrade-demand-high-bring-grammar-lesson-alive
Questions?