Educational Organisations (schools, lyceums, gymnasiums, etc.) in the Republic of Kazakhstan are committed to the principle that learners need to learn how to learn as part of the process of education and become independent, self-motivated, engaged, confident, responsible and reflective learners.
Teachers are expected to nurture and develop these qualities through using a wide variety of teaching and learning strategies that include:
Listening to the voice of the individual learner and recognising that it is essential to engage with their prior knowledge and understanding in order to develop it
Challenging and extending learners through carefully scaffolding assignments and activities
Challenging and extending learners by providing meaningful contexts, tasks and activities
Modelling and exemplifying problem solving strategies in a way that is understandable to the learner
Supporting learning through assessment for learning
Encouraging active enquiry based learning and learner research
Developing learners’ critical thinking skills
Employing a mixture of whole class, individual and collaborative activities
Facilitating research projects where learners can apply a variety of skills which will help them not only in their English language lessons but also in other subjects studied at primary school
Teachers at State Schools will use a variety of approaches to create a safe and comfortable learning environment for all of the learners in the classroom. The different approaches and strategies employed are both inductive and deductive approaches. Traditional teaching approaches such as the Audio-Lingual Method and PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) can be used to deliver lessons alongside more modern communicative approaches such as Task-Based Learning, Test-Teach-Test and the Lexical Approach. Teachers also use methods which are particularly suitable for young learners such as TPR (Total Physical Response) and Natural Approach. Using a variety of approaches in a principled way, by considering the aim of the activity or lesson, learners’ ages, previous knowledge and learning style, as well as considering practicalities such as available supplementary or course book material, time and class size, is preferable to adopting any one approach dogmatically.
In English, examples of these teaching and learning strategies are:
carrying out surveys as part of a topic or project
practising and reviewing lexics on a regular basis and encouraging the use of language journals to record new vocabulary
using conversational posters
making presentations to the class
using sets of reading books for guided reading, graded according to challenge and difficulty
oral and written comprehension exercises
acting out dialogues
encouraging a process of drafting and redrafting, including the use of ICT
providing opportunities for individual and collaborative writing
regular teaching of spelling strategies
patterns and sight vocabulary
encouraging dictionary/thesaurus use
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