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張瀞仁這本書雖然是寫給內向者的工作指引，但老實說對已在職場上的人是一種提醒，對於大學生或是初出社會的青年這樣ㄧ步步手把手解釋引導，真是佛心來著，我尤其推薦書裡解釋 Small Talk 的篇章。 對於還在英語學習階段，即將邁入雙語或是英語教學的學生們，這真的是寶典！哈哈哈哈！
Small talk, 對外國的孩子可能相當習以爲常，但對於臺灣的孩子（起碼對我來說），尤其是要自在的以英語進行small talk ，的確是ㄧ個需要學習的技能。 因爲是外語，平常沒在使用的話，ㄧ下子要口若懸河，看起來自在，無論你是外向或是內向我想都不容易。所以如書中所言，準備是重點，曾練習過的才是自己的。也因爲是聊天，「讓聽者愉悅地接受才是溝通的重點。其實，被討厭與讓人印象深刻只有一線之隔…。」 網路上說明亞洲大媽或大伯聊天方式令人哭笑不得的梗已太多：ㄧ定要負面評論一下你的外表、容裝、穿著，然后給個建議覺得為你好；一定要調查一下你的身家背景，還是要給個建議，告訴你如何可以更好（我有想知道嗎？）；本來以爲，時至今日這樣的情形已經不多，喔不，上週參加研習還真有個教師夥伴活靈活現的又在我身邊演一回。 （對，我就想這樣穿，不行嗎？） 如果，我們平日溝通的方式僅是向師長、家人抑或是某些酸言酸語的直播主取經，那真的要好好學習ㄧ回何為讓聽者愉悅接受的小閒聊。平等的尊重，我們似乎還有努力的空間。
真實的經驗是，我也是個太小心謹慎的人。第一次的國外小旅行，當地朋友開心聊完自己，回頭問了我： So, what’ your story? 我驚嚇的當場逃走！ If I can do it again, I would definitely have lots to share and say about me, my country and my great experience in that trip. 🥹 Our education bureau is developing modules on PE lessons for teachers to learn to teach PE. I think this is a great idea. Simple and effective in terms of in-service teacher training. I actually benefited it a lot when I first started in 2017. Attending the second time this year, it feels that the model is more clear and easier to execute for novice PE teachers. Having the opportunity to learn from the experienced and the best is a blessing. The model is GBODY. I don’t know where they got this acronym but it’s easy to remember. G stands for warm up and preparation. B stands for skills building. O refers to communication and modification with the students. D means differentiation. Y is the final wrap up and cleaning up. Easy to remember now, but it took me a long time to figure out the teaching process in 2017. For lower graders, the lessons were contextualized with their world experience, such as animals imitation and road safety. I think the idea of road safety is fun to play with. Kids love the game of 紅綠燈 - red light and green light. For CLIL lessons, it’s also easier to develop chants and interaction when introducing this idea. Here is an example. Red light, stop. Green light, go. Yellow, yellow, keep an eye out. The lesson can then incorporate various animal walks and skips. Here is a screenshot of the differentiated stage (D) of GBODY.
The same process can also be used to teach gymnastic rolling, like how the panda rolls in the video clip. Teaching lower grade PE is just too much fun! This semester I start teaching third grade international Culture Education(ICE). Totally clues.
For one, I know very little where they are cognitively. Every year, the maturity of kids seem differ in some way. It’s easy to chat with them about daily routines, friends and school work. But how to really extend their knowing to a bigger context without having the sense of delivering bookish knowledge. It’s hard. Secondly, I have completely no idea what are the big ideas behind the stories or texts I prepared for the kids at this point. It feels that we are just chitchatting in the class about recent news. But where am I taking them? Or do I even need to take them anywhere? Perhaps the purpose is to give them a different adult perspective on current issues. On a note discussing with my fellow colleagues, their views struck a chord. We are teaching public school children. A lot of them may have never experienced having a decent conversation about the world or the country they live in with adults. This is a great opportunity for them to experience such and perhaps hearing various viewpoints from people other than their family. I am not sure whether it’s a public school thing or not. I could have gone to a private school when I was little, I remember my parents were busy and we hardly had time to have such discussion as well. So I guess just discussing may be good enough at this age. Compared with IT, PE and English class, where the objectives are sound and clear, ICE at school seems fluid. I know the kids have to achieve a certain goal and obtain certain skill sets. But what are they? Children at this age do not yet have enough world experience to discuss National matters. (?) I am totally blind here. It’s week 8. I am still learning. We have completed interesting topics, such as the Fukushima nuclear plant water release and the Asian Game. Space competition is our current topic. Kids are very responsive and amazingly talkative. They are inquisitive and creative with solutions. I wish I could have time in class to address to their questions individually. Discussions are fun. I am not sure whether I am on the right track but I hope they at least learned some facts and at had fun. |
Winnie ChiuAn enthusiastic ELT/CLIL teacher, passionate educator, researcher, teacher trainer, Apple Teacher. Seesaw ambassador and curriculum developer. Archives
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