Microteaching (2)

Implementation Skills & Evaluation Skills

Ola Hamdy
 Session (2)
Motivating learners
Practical Techniques:
- Interesting Warm-up
- Involvement in activities
- Stimulating critical thinking
- Memorable closure
 Interesting Warm-up

1- Where are they?

2- What are they doing?
3- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
4- What is she telling her friend?
 Interesting Warm-up
Guess the link:

1- What are they doing?

2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Interesting Warm-up

1- What are they doing?

2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Interesting Warm-up
Challenge accepted?

You have 5 minutes to do the following:

- Find two words that rhyme with “boy”.
- Write three animals starting with “H”.
- Mention four countable
1- What are they doing?
food items.
- 2-Name five
Where are things in the classroom.
they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Involvement in activities
- Write songs
- Take photos
- Draw pictures
- Make presentations
- Record themselves
- Write their own quizzes
1- What are they doing?

(facts theyherlearnt
friend? this term- new vocabulary)
2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Stimulating critical thinking
- Students making predictions

- Asking their opinions about different topics/texts

1- What are they doing?

- Students justify their responses

2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Memorable closure

- Review the lesson

- Give them something to look forward to
(Conversation time?- Game?)
1- What are they doing?
2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Reinforcement
- Meaning of reinforcement
- The importance of reinforcement
- Different types of reinforcement
- What makes reinforcement vary
- Reinforcement criteria
Meaning of reinforcement

It is information that is given to the

learner about his/her performance of a
learning task, with the objective of
improving this performance.
1- What are they doing?
2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
The importance of reinforcement
- It is integral to instruction.
- It enhances positive response and successful learning.
- It informs the learner of his/her own performance.
- It encourages learners to participate and pay attention.
- It helps teachers to manage their classes.
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1- What are they doing?
2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
Different types of reinforcement
1- Positive, verbal reinforcement
2- Negative, verbal reinforcement
3- Positive, non-verbal
4- Negative, non-verbal
5- Partial, positive: reinforcing the correct parts of the
student's answer.
6-1-Postponed reinforcement (positive): It is not done on
What are they doing?
the2-3- Where
spot. are they?
. telling her friend?
What is she
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
What makes reinforcement vary

a) The learners' response (right/wrong).

b) Teachers' personal experience.
c) Teachers' knowledge of the learners
(stage, age, needs, interests and styles).
1- What are they doing?
2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
Reinforcement criteria

- Immediate and related to behavior.

- Varied (e.g. ok, good, very good, excellent)
- Not exaggerated.

1- What are they doing?

2- Where are they?
3- What is she telling her friend?
4- What is the girl on the left pointing at?
 Next time:

Asking Oral Questions