Fourth Week
WEEK 4: Five Ways to Engage English Language Learners in Community Life
«The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members»
Coretta Scott King
LEARNING OUTCOMES
by the end of the week you will be able to:
- define community-connected learning
- explain why community-connected learning is important
- describe the ways to help students become independent explorers
- use effective strategies for involving EL learners in community life
- introduce project-based learning in your classroom
PART 1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME INDEPENDENT EXPLORERS
READING
PART 2: SOCIAL PRESENCE AND INVOLVING STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY LIFE
READING
INTERVIEW
Interview with our guest – Nadina C. Nicolici
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About Nadina C. Nicolici
Nadina C. Nicolici is a teacher of English and French as foreign languages at «Lorin Salagean» Technical High School in Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania. She has coordinated and participated together with her students and peers in more than 175 national and international educational projects and partnerships, having as partners European or global schools from other continents, such as Erasmus+, CommuniTIES, Comenius, ePals, eTwinning, Teaching with Europeana or global volunteering campaigns. Recently she coordinated the training courses for EFL teachers «Confident Teacher, Well-off Community», funded by the US Embassy Bucharest, and «Let’s Speak Media Literacy!», a project made possible by the Global Teacher award sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. She is a SUSI (Study of the US Institutes), OPEN (former e-Teacher) and a Fulbright TEA alumna (Media literacy cohort), an OPEN Alumni Community Lead (content creator), a member of the advisory board for Fulbrighter, a country trainer for British Council, and a T4 Education country ambassador. She is a National Geographic Certified Educator. She received various prizes and awards: Teacher of the Year in Romania, ePals Teacher Ambassador, ePals Exemplary Teacher, eTwinning mentor, Excellence award.
TEST OF THE FOURTH WEEK
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SUMMARY
Do you think it will be hard to involve your students in community life? Why / Why not? If yes, what are the ways to overcome these difficulties? What ideas for project-based learning introduced in Week 4 do you like and might use in your classroom? If you have any other ideas for PBL, please share here.
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REFERENCES
Used literature
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=slcediversity
https://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/01/02/21-tips-connecting-learners-to-community/
https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/involve-community-classroom/
https://www.ecoleglobale.com/blog/how-to-help-students-to-be-independent-learners/
http://www.aeegroup.co.za/blog/how-you-can-help-students-become-independent-learners/
https://scholar.google.com.ua/scholar?q=Social+Presence+and+Involving+Students+in+Community+Life&hl=uk&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1011685.pdf
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/35145552/The_Power_of_Social_Presence_for_Learning_EDUCAUSEReview-libre.pdf?1413391499=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Power_of_Social_Presence_for_Learnin.pdf&Expires=1658060345&Signature=aYwNDsd2kydZ1DuAGpq74wg2BfD7luT4fHc5j01mYXgE-BCp--a7jO-ouh2ijjo1vh60K2uK0Em6IaNC-sxq~UGH5D~BHwokrDUfU2Vf~UMVTHY80~2EL9uCA2scKbqI4TimqJEBqYuNI8jgXjklTZovQEcwjDZFS4P7pu0yEKHXOZPMG6b9ABhoJEaPxPMBB7xVnD4kHHHY1-DP-wlYvZYKsuamVjB-uCWbg9L4FnrRgBXuvJVFSghYo48gGV4-VpEjhF7-WGUQYtdDo5zm1~wRx6MLwleTm6pKYtaFoEojpvvUX~4onH5IMjC9ICAyx80tzwCrO7z~FJ1cGleEVA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
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