Teaching the Whole Child

Nina Lauder - http://ninaspain.blogspot.com

Introduction: Research has shown that pupils learn best when their academic,
social and emotional needs are met. Hence, as teachers, it is important for us to
help our pupils develop social skills alongside teaching them key concepts from
the curriculum.
What can we work on? values bringing the real world into the classroom
home-school connections learning preferences academic and social skills
fair grading systems
Values: Social and emotional development is often harder to pinpoint than
signs of physical or academic development. Research shows that social skills
and emotional development (reflected in the ability to pay attention, make
transitions from one activity to another, and cooperate with others) are a very
important part of school success and an important part of lifelong learning.
We can teach pupils about values using songs, stories, reading texts, projects<
culture pages and worksheets.
Values that can be worked on with young learners: personal hygiene / road
safety / helping others / sharing / being a good friend / feelings / keeping our
things tidy / environmental awareness / being kind to animals

A good explorer.

Social
Skills/Manners

Stories for values

Culture
Scrapook

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination,
and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the
moment you die, is a process of learning. - J. Krishnamurti
The highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is
capable of dealing with life as a whole. J. Krishnamurti

Materials for this talk from OUP Treetops

and Explorers series

Resources: www.oxfordmagazine.es

http://oupeltglobalblog.com/

Active Grammar
Nina Lauder http://ninaspain.blogspot.com
"Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just by sitting in
class listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting
out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate
it to past experiences, apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they
learn part of themselves." - Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson
Ways to make grammar more active in class

Games

Pairwork activities

Role plays

Ode Creative Poetry Writing by Jane Spiro

1 Noun (subject)
2 Two Adjectives to describe noun
3 Where [1] is
4 Repeat 1
5 Whats [1] doing?
6 Adverb of manner (-ly)(twice)
7 Repeat 1

Concentration
Concen-tration
Thinking of
Adjectives
For example,
Small
Smaller.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything Magnus Carlsen

The material for this talk was based on activities from the
Oxford Grammar for Schools series
Oxford Parents site: https://elt.oup.com/parents/resources/oxfordparents/