Overview and Syllabus
Teaching EFL to Young Learners sessions is a hands-on session for teachers of English to Young Learners and Teens from around the world. The session will focus on activities that engage young learners. Teachers will use Voki and Kahoot for introductions, story reading, board games, limited resource classroom activities, Curation walls for collaborative reflections, and Screen recording tools for video tutorials.
Session objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will have:
- discussed challenges and activities involved in teaching EFL to young learners.
- discussed methods of teaching young learners via Flip, Videos, Arts & Crafts; Games; Improvisational Play Online.
- created activities using Flip, arts & crafts; board games; story reading/improvisational play.
- discussed student collaboration
- engaged with peer and moderator video tutorials and video recordings of the ZOOM meetings using Annoto in the discussions.
- recorded their voices using PoodLL and recorder using their audio and webcam directly from the editor
- added their reflections and feedback of the session on Voki.
- created video tutorials using screen recorders to document their work.
Target audience
TEFL2YL is designed for teachers, parents, caregivers, and everyone involved in teaching young learners and teens irrespective of context or degree of experience.
Requirements
Participants will be expected to have the basic skills necessary to facilitate communication via an online discussion group.
Technical Requirements
- Microphone
- Webcam
Participants will be expected to have the basic skills necessary to facilitate communication via an online discussion group.
Session Communication Tools
- Moodle
- ZOOM
Technology
- Kahoot https://kahoot.com
- Vimeo https://vimeo.com
- Screencast-o-matic https://screencast-o-matic.com
- LOOM for educators (free pro) https://loom.com
- Awesome Screenshot https://awesomescreenshot.com
- Techsmith Capture https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html
- IdeaBoardz https://ideaboardz.com
- Voki https://www.voki.com
- Canva https://www.canva.com
- Wakelet https://wakelet.com
- Miro https://miro.com
- Padlet https://padlet.com
- Flip https://flipgrid.com
- Wakelet https://wakelet.com
- Mural https://www.mural.co
- Miro https://miro.com
- Notion https://notion.so
- Padlet https://padlet.com
- Edpuzzle https://edupuzzle.com
- Conceptboard https://app.conceptboard.com
- Popplet https://app.popplet.com
- Google Jamboards https://jamboard.google.com/
- Notion https://notion.so
- Amanote (annotating tool) in the Moodle session https://amanote.com
- Annoto https://www.annoto.net/
- PoodLL and Recorder on the Editor of the course https://poodll.com
- Popplet https://app.popplet.com
- ZOOM https://zoom.us
Moderators
- Nellie Deutsch
- Sheryl McCoy
- Nives Torresi
- Judy Wong
- Forum
- ForumModerators Forum