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    This document discusses how to make classes more learner-centered for teenagers. It notes that teens are interested in pop culture, technology, and themselves, not necessarily the teacher. It warns that teachers should not pretend to like whatever is currently popular, as interests change quickly. The document recommends conducting a student survey to incorporate their interests, allowing students to choose materials and relate them to course objectives, and using technology like posters or PowerPoints to appeal to different skills. It also suggests keeping videos short, letting students research topics themselves, and making lessons challenging through tasks while connecting content to students' lives. The overall goal is to personalize lessons, make students partners in choosing content, and recognize that the teacher is not the sole authority.

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    This document discusses how to make classes more learner-centered for teenagers. It notes that teens are interested in pop culture, technology, and themselves, not necessarily the teacher. It warns that teachers should not pretend to like whatever is currently popular, as interests change quickly. The document recommends conducting a student survey to incorporate their interests, allowing students to choose materials and relate them to course objectives, and using technology like posters or PowerPoints to appeal to different skills. It also suggests keeping videos short, letting students research topics themselves, and making lessons challenging through tasks while connecting content to students' lives. The overall goal is to personalize lessons, make students partners in choosing content, and recognize that the teacher is not the sole authority.

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    Teens Student-Centred

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    Raül Pope
    This document discusses how to make classes more learner-centered for teenagers. It notes that teens are interested in pop culture, technology, and themselves, not necessarily the teacher. It warns that teachers should not pretend to like whatever is currently popular, as interests change quickly. The document recommends conducting a student survey to incorporate their interests, allowing students to choose materials and relate them to course objectives, and using technology like posters or PowerPoints to appeal to different skills. It also suggests keeping videos short, letting students research topics themselves, and making lessons challenging through tasks while connecting content to students' lives. The overall goal is to personalize lessons, make students partners in choosing content, and recognize that the teacher is not the sole authority.

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    Learner-Centeredness for Teens

    Why are they so hard?


    What do Teens find ‘interesting’?
    Not the teacher…
    What do Teens relate to?
    • Pop culture
    • Technology
    • Themselves

    What does this mean for your classes?


    What are the potential pitfalls?
    How things can go easily wrong…
    • Don’t act as if you enjoy Billie Eilish, Harry
    Potter or whoever is popular (even if you do)
    • Everything dates really quickly
    • “Oh, you sing, Dima. Next lesson you can sing in
    front of the whole class.”
    • Don’t assume everyone can do the necessary
    things to complete a task
    • Don’t choose the material alone
    • Don’t pick a 25 minute documentary on
    Russian rap by Russia Today
    How to get it somewhat right…(sometimes)

    • Conduct a survey and honestly say you’ll


    incorporate things they like into the course
    • Allow students to choose the material and
    relate it back to a class/ course objective
    • Creating posters lets those who are artistic to
    show off, while those who are more academic
    to provide the input
    • Likewise, a creating a PowerPoint or Prezi…
    How to get it somewhat right…(sometimes)

    • Let them make choices: explain what is


    coming up and ask them to research it, find a
    video or article that interests them
    • Keep videos short – Trailers for films, clips of
    videos and interviews, ‘How to…’ videos
    • Download it all before
    To summarise
    • Use culture
    • Personalise it
    • Make connections between the material and
    their world
    • Make it a challenge by using a task
    • Technology is not a subject; it’s a way of life
    • Let them choose and make decisions
    • You are already behind the times
    How to student-centre the whole shebang
    • When I want to explain something, make it a
    question (why…?)
    • When I want to hear students’ opinions, set
    pairwork
    • When I want to check their answers, set
    pairwork
    • After we’ve read/ listened to a text, ask them
    what they think of it, how they’d change it,
    what would be different

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