How to Help Students Reflect and Build Background Knowledge

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How to Help Students Reflect and Build Background Knowledge

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PAUL DUMMETT

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reflect

OVERVIEW

Preparing students for academic study in English presents several challenges: Academic topics seeming dry and inaccessible; texts having a distinct vocabulary; and students’ lack of familiarity with core disciplines like listening to lectures and essay writing. But there’s another challenge which is often overlooked and that is students, especially very low-level students, being asked to discuss and think critically about things they have little experience of. This webinar will address this issue and how the new series Reflect helps students achieve their academic goals at all levels.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paul Dummett is a teacher and writer based in Oxford, UK, where he ran his own school teaching English to professionals from 1996 to 2006. He currently teaches refugee children in Palestine and Jordan with The Hands Up project. His main interests are the use of images and narrative in language teaching and how these can aid deeper learning and memory. Seeking out writing projects that explore these interests he has found a natural home at National Geographic Learning, co-authoring titles such as Life and Keynote and acting as a Course Consultant for Look and Imagine. Most recently, he is the co-author for Reflect, a new six-level Academic series from National Geographic Learning.  He enjoys travel, exercise and live music/spoken word performance.

Tapping into Curiosity: Incorporating Critical Thinking in Every Situation

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TAPPING INTO CURIOSITY:
INCORPORATING CRITICAL THINKING IN EVERY SITUATION

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PAUL DUMMETT
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“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.” – Albert Einstein

We tend to think of critical thinking as an intellectual skill that appears in explicit, academic-type tasks. In fact, it’s part of a holistic approach to learning founded on being curious, objective and fair. It’s implicit in all we do and, in ELT, is applicable to all four skills, grammar and vocabulary, and to all levels and all ages. This approach encourages deeper engagement with content, deeper processing of language, and ultimately greater learner independence. In this presentation we’ll illustrate the benefits of a critical mindset in a wide variety of contexts, and look at examples of how critical thinking as a skill can be included in multiple lesson and task types, from young learners to adults.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paul Dummett is a teacher and writer based in Oxford, UK, where he ran his own school teaching English to professionals from 1996 to 2006. He currently teaches refugee children in Palestine and Jordan with The Hands Up Project. His main interests are the use of images and narrative in language teaching and how these can aid deeper learning and memory. Seeking out writing projects that explore these interests he has found a natural home at National Geographic Learning, co-authoring titles such as Life and Keynote and acting as a Course Consultant for Look, a seven-level primary series. He enjoys travel, exercise and live music/spoken word performance.

5 Ways to Teach with Real Stories

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FIVE WAYS TO TEACH WITH REAL STORIES

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PAUL DUMMETT
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Why use real world stories in language learning? As well as being motivating – learners discover new things about the world as they learn the language – stories also draw on our narrative intelligence. They give us a structure to follow, a social context, the chance to absorb detail and see the wider picture, and provide a concrete vehicle for more abstract ideas. This talk presents five practical and transferable activities for using real world stories from National Geographic in the classroom.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Dummett is a teacher and writer based in Oxford, UK, where he ran his own school teaching English to professionals from 1996 to 2006. He currently teaches refugee children in Palestine and Jordan with the Handsupproject. His main interests are the use of images and narrative in language teaching and how these can aid deeper learning and memory. Seeking out writing projects that explore these interests he has found a natural home at National Geographic Learning, co-authoring titles such as Life and Keynote and acting as a Course Consultant for Look, a seven-level primary series. He enjoys travel, exercise and live music/spoken word performance.

Making learning last: Creating memorable lessons for your students

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MAKE LEARNING LAST:
CREATING MEMORABLE LESSONS FOR YOUR STUDENTS

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PAUL DUMMETT
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Around 70% of what we forget is forgotten in the first 24 hours after initial learning. Techniques exist for memorizing items in the short-term, but less is known about how and what we remember longer-term. What we do know is that effective learning comes from the brain making links between things and that these links are strengthened by use. In this workshop, I will use practical examples to show the kinds of stronger links we can help students to make using: imagery, repetition, emotion, stories, language with a high utility factor, multi-sensory approaches and peer-teaching.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paul Dummett is a teacher and writer based in Oxford, UK, where he ran his own school teaching English to professionals from 1996 to 2006. He currently teaches refugee children in Palestine and Jordan with the Hands Up Project. His main interests are the use of images and narrative in language teaching and how these can aid deeper learning and memory. Seeking out writing projects that explore these interests he has found a natural home at National Geographic Learning, co-authoring titles such as Life and Keynote and acting as a Course Consultant for Look, a seven-level primary series. He enjoys travel, exercise and live music/spoken word performance.