Saturday 20 June 2015

Training Week 8

This week we have arranged to meet our students and tutors at Kingston Museum. The group splits into two, half going off on a local history tour of Kingston town centre, while the other half stayed for a guided tour of the Museum. I stayed with the group which toured the Museum and found our guide extremely well informed, using lots of props to help explain the exhibits to our students. There really is something for everyone at the Museum, with exhibits ranging from Bronze and Iron Age artefacts, to the Anglo-Saxon Kings who were crowned in Kingston, and showing how Kingston has changed through more modern decades. Our students were asked to pick their favourite exhibit and write a few sentences, with our help, about what it was and why they liked it. 




When we reconvened after lunch for our theory lesson, the focus this week was on the use of authentic materials in teaching. Authentic materials are those not specifically prepared for teaching purposes, for example, information leaflets, forms, newspapers and recipe books. We were split into small groups, each given different authentic materials and we were asked to consider the challenges posed by the language and layouts used. We then were tasked to come up with solutions to overcome these challenges within the context of a plan for a reading lesson. I found this to be a really useful lesson and one which is likely to be well used by us with our students in the future.  

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