values for elt #2 - work
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Everyone has their own take on work (love, hate, or everything in between). Why is it important? How can I instill it as part of my English class? What are the benefits for our lives, subject, and across the curriculum? Find some answers and ideas here!!TRANSCRIPT
Values for ELT
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Andrés Ramos
To find out the concepts, methodology, style, and sources supporting this series for
Values Teaching, check out “Values for ELT: Introduction And Framework” at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-0-intro-framework-30932000
WORK
Are You Tired of…..
… dreams not come true yet?
… unfinished business?
… just longing to get ahead but going very slowly?
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Get up and do something!!
What Is Work All about?
“Activity that involves physical or mental effort […]
something produced by a writer, painter, musician, or
other artist; the repairing and building of something.”
Macmillan English Dictionary Online
“ Activity in which one exerts strength or faculties
to do or perform something; sustained physical or
mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve
an objective or result.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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Now, let’s see work for ELT.
Talk The Talk about Work:
• - What do you do (for a living) ? - I’m a…
• I’m working (on / for)…
• I work (at / for / with)…
• I do (something) every (expressions of frequency)
• (Just) do it!
• I’ve been working on / making an effort /striving to (do something)…
• I’ve endeavored to (doing something)...
• “Let’s get serious about business”
• “I’ll get down to it.”
• I’m committed to getting (something) done…
• (someone) has / possesses a (not so) good / strong / hard work
ethic which enables / encourages (them) to / prevents (them) from…
Ways to assist students in practicing this, next!
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Walk The Walk towards Work…
Along with children:
• Engage in creative activities by helping students persist,
enjoy the process, and celebrate the finished creation.
• Include indvidual or team work with an achievable degree
of complexity / challenge, while giving step-by-step
instructions and developing problem-solving skills.
Teens can also walk this way by…
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Along with teens:
• Prompt discussion on effort or work ethic from a reading,
audio file, video, website, anecdote, or prominent case.
Then elicit attitudes towards work among them.
• Help learners relate work to achievement by rewarding the
outcome of a project, community service, or entrepreneurial
effort.
• Considering students’ skills sets, lead them to coach /
assist each other in completing comprehensive tasks.
Adults and professionals can go along!
Walk The Walk towards Work…
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Along with young adults & adults or professionals:
• Help them devise new ways to be more effective and
efficient in their academic and business lives, experiment with
those ideas, and report the results back to class.
• Compare own individual and societal beliefs about work
to those in other cultures, organizations, or communities,
and draw conclusions with action points.
A few tricks of the trade to make it happen, next!
Walk The Walk towards Work…
Work + ELT Strategies
of Cognitive Nature
Whole Brain Teaching: Include work-promoting
activities that appeal to both brain hemisferes,
i.e. sequences + awareness of emotions / mood,
or partial facts + 360° perspective.
Mutiple Intelligences: Plan work-fostering
practice that also develops visual-spatial, logical,
mathematical, musical, kinesthetic, etc. skills.
Good for the brain! How about language acquisition?
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ESP: Ask students to share perfomance-
enhancing techniques in their disciplines
and integrate them in (out-of) class
language skills practice.
Work + ELT Strategies
of Linguistic Nature
Didactics: Use Scaffolding procedures for
class practice on the value of work to help
students effectively streamline efforts and
achieve results.
No, we’re not leaving IT out. See next!
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Mobile Learning: Get students to
create scripts, podcasts, or memes
with standard mobile / tablet apps.
Work + ELT Strategies
of Digital Nature
Blended Learning: Instant-poll students on
attitudes towards work, or use IWB to
collaborate on a work-promoting exercise.
Gamification: Use scheduling apps to plan /
simulate business activity, or city / farm management
apps to play and keep a journal on progress.
Let’s see how all this connects across the curriculum.
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Work, The Perfect Match for…
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• Science: Encourage students during trial & error stages.
• Art: Try more challenging techniques for painting, modeling…
• Math: Perform larger arithmetic operations.
• Physical Education: Set fitness goals and train for them.
• Biology / Physics / Chemistry: More demanding experiments.
• History: Make timelines, summary tables, comparative analyses.
• Literature: Understand and emulate authors’ styles.
• Music: Help students practice more complex works.
• Extracurricular clubs: Organize and engage in outreach.
• Engineering: Achieve efficiency gains for advance deadlines.
• Management: Analyze and balance workloads.
• Pure / Applied Sciences: Conduct more ambitious research.
• Performing Arts: Increase production values.
Last but not least, inspiration!
Inspiration from Work
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
Anne Frank
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“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the
thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you
have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Do you know a hard-working man? He shall be
successful and stand before kings!”
Proverbs 22:29 (TLB)
Our next month’s value: Initiative
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More Values for ELT
What you’re about to see: Cover slides of the
previous and next parts of this series and links thereto.
Values for ELT
PERSEVERANCE
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Andrés Ramos
The first installment of this series, available at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-1-perseverance
Previously
Values for ELT
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Andrés Ramos
The third installment of this series, available at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-3-initiative
INITIATIVE
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Values for ELT
WORK
Photo: Daily Pleasure / Flickr CC
Andrés Ramos
To find out the concepts, methodology, style, and sources supporting this series for
Values Teaching, check out “Values for ELT: Introduction And Framework” at
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-0-intro-framework-30932000