Pro-D day Have fun teaching French
As title the indicates teaching core French should be fun and should translates into a positive learning experience for students. Students should enjoy the lesson that they are learning. The methodology and lesson designed should be centered around : (a) Meaningful – e.g we should not teach numbers just for the sake of teaching numbers, incorporate it in themes , like we already do Grade 3, to state their birthday….Grade 4 to learn time (b) Taking into account their prior learning experiences and building on that, scaffolding (c) Include a starter….calendar,,,date,,,weather (d) Emphasis should be on oral practice in beginning to move to simple written assignments (e) Use of technology to make their learning experience as near as possible to reality……instead of reading a long paragraph on quebec ,,,show them a video on quebec….youtube (f) Make the minimum use of songs or poem designed for specific task as it does not include any aspect of French culture which is recommended in the IRP…….. (g) Resourceful: should have a list of songs or poems that cover the themes that we are teaching in class……. Well for our school I do have list……they are sending us some resources that have been developed by the Langley school district. (h) Students are not expected to remain static during the class…lesson should make provision for movement of students for instance in respective corners (4 corner game) when discovering someone