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MFL Alive Conference
Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone
29 February 2020
- Simon Green
- simon@challengingideas.co.uk
MFL Alive Conference Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone 29 February 2020 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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MFL Alive Conference Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone 29 February 2020 Simon Green simon@challengingideas.co.uk Friedrichshafen, Germany 1876 Teachers are those people who help us to solve problems that without them we would never
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Friedrichshafen, Germany 1876
- Teachers are those people who help
us to solve problems
- that without them
- we would never have had.
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Three big questions
- Who is doing all the work in
your classroom - you or the students?
- What happens to the learning
when the teaching stops?
- Can less teaching make for
more learning?
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Is languages proficiency a gift?
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Mindset and MFL
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Fixed mindset Growth mindset
Intelligence is static Intelligence can be developed Desire to look smart Desire to learn Tendency to …… Tendency to …….
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Fixed mindset Growth mindset CHALLENGES OBSTACLES EFFORT CRITICISM SUCCESS OF OTHERS Avoid challenges Embrace challenges Give up easily Persist in face of setbacks Effort is pointless Effort is path to progress Ignore useful critical feedback Learn from criticism Feel threatened by success of
- thers
Find inspiration from success of
- thers
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Fixed mindset Growth mindset
Plateau early and achieve less than full potential Reach ever higher levels of achievement Deterministic view of the world Greater sense of freewill
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Do students view intellectual ability as a GIFT?
Or is it something that can be developed and expanded through practice?
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There is vulnerability when ability and intellect are seen as fixed
When challenge comes, ability is questioned. If there is struggle there can be no gift
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In summary: students need
- Feedback
- Focus on key concepts
- Challenging tasks
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On average teachers talk between
70 – 80%
- f class time
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Challenging tasks
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Every sentence must contain eight words only
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Every sentence must contain eight words only Five words must have
- nly four letters
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Here in body, but mentally far, far away….
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How do you know the gender of any noun in Fr/Ger/Sp?
- Do the exceptions help or hinder?
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16 French nouns ending in -age
- What is the gender?
- What do you think is the gender and why?
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masculin ou féminin?
- visage
- orage
- bagages
- voyage
- chauffage
- étage
- stage
- potage
- garage
- fromage
- sondage
- langage
- âge
- collage
- village
- courage
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How useful is it to know that there are only six nouns in French ending in –age that are feminine?
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Regardez l’image sur cette page: un lion
plein de rage échappé de sa cage sur la plage s’enfuit à la nage
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When people pass through a doorway to move from one location to another ….. ….. they forget more information than if they do not make such a shift.
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It is quite clear that memory for recently experienced information is affected by the structure of the surrounding environment.
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Vocab test
How did you learn that?
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Aristotle : memento loci
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memento loci
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memento loci
kitchen bathroom main bedroom
- utside (back)
second bedroom hall
- utside (front)
living room dining room secret place
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Me at a party
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Flexible learning groups
A A D E A A F F B B F F C C G G H H K L J J M N
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The Pareto Principle
- 80% of all results flow
from 20% of actions
- 80% of problems
come from 20% of causes
- 80% of output is
produced by 20% of input
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The Pareto Principle
- The vital few
- What three actions
can I take that will make the greatest difference?
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The Pareto Principle
- The trivial many
- What else can I
delegate or defer that may have limited consequence?
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