CO-TEACHING

Co-teaching activities are a very different way of implementing different dynamics in which two or more teachers are engaged in the same level of implication. However, this not only means that the implementation should be cooperative but also the planning and the design, which was the most important part of our co-teaching activity.

• Speed Meeting •

This activity will engage students to know more about their classmates apart from practising English in a dynamic and fun way. It is aimed to increase the group cohesion and students social abilities as well as being a dynamic and unusual practice which will attend the needs of all students and will have them get out of their comfort zone.

Moreover, it will allow working on social interaction and to create different types of communication among students that have hardly ever talked to each other.

CONTEXT

• GRADE:

5th & 6th

• TEACHING AREAS:

English & Citizenship and values

• TEACHERS:

Marta Tena & Maria Vrban

LANGUAGE

A1 according the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Some students in contexts where plurilingualism is very much present and some of them even have English as a mother tongue.

Enriching variety from which we intend to benefit from by having students collaborate and cooperate as they learn from each other.

OBJECTIVES

• To practice the WH questions

• To improve interpersonal communication

• To be aware of the common traits some students have among each other

• To gain consciousness regarding partnership

TIME: 1 hour

DESCRIPTION

First of all, we will introduce ourselves since students from the other school will not know us.

After that, we will present the WH question words with a presentation so as to make sure students know them and their functions

WHAT - WHERE - WHEN - WHO - WHY - HOW

The main activity will consist of a speed meeting. Half of the students will be placed in an outer circle and the other half in an inner circle. They will be organized in pairs and for two minutes they will have to ask different questions to their pair using the WH questions. Every two minutes will ring a whistle and the students in the outer circle will have to roll over.

Once all the students have done one round they will have an exit ticket in which will have to write 12 new things they have learnt about some of their classmates

MATERIALS