1. Matching materials with learners Noreen Caplen-Spence
What is the function of a bridge? Think of your favourite bridge?

2. Matching materials with learners
Setting the scene
Some ideas for adapting materials with examples
Check list
Reflection and evaluation

3. Matching materials with learners

4. Matching materials with learners

5. Matching materials with learners
Understand the aim of their learning
Where they are in relation to this aim
How they can achieve the aim or close the gap in their knowledge
Assessment for Learning (AFL)

6. Matching materials with learners
People
Context Materials
The importance of learners asking questions. How and why being the most difficult questions to answer. Known to unkonwn

7. Mixed Ability Read 10% List, define explain, describe……. Hear 20%
See 30%
Apply and demonstrate……….
See & hear 50%
Analyse, evaluate,
create……
Say & write 70%
Do 90%
Based on Edgar Dale cone of experience

8. Matching materials with learners
Tip of the iceberg we only see what people do…how do we get learners to be aware of what they think and feel

9. Matching materials with learners
Cosmopolitan
Exciting
Cutting-edge
Fun
Old-fashioned
Courtesy
Busy streets
Historic sight

10. Matching materials with learners

11. Matching materials with learners
Look at 2 paintings
Venn diagram
Vocabulary: fog, smog

12. Matching Materials with learners

13. Matching materials with learners
Write a title for each painting

14. Matching materials with learners
Claude Monet
Sun breaking through the Fog
1904 (right)
London smog
1900 (left)

15. Autobiography in 5 chapters
I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in
I am lost
It is not my fault
It takes forever to find a way out

16. Autobiography in 5 chapters
I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I pretend I do not see it
I fall in again
I cannot believe I am in the same place
But it is not my fault
It still takes a long time to get out.

17. Autobiography in 5 chapters
I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I see it, I still fall in
It is a habit
My eyes are open, I know where I am
It is my fault, I get out immediately

18. Autobiography in 5 chapters
I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I walk ….…it

19. Autobiography in 5 chapters
I walk down …………………..
Adapted from a poem by Portia Nelson 1985

20. Matching materials with learners
Individual
Team/pair
Group

21. Matching materials with learners
Sharing/ collaborating
(think/pair, group/share)

22. Matching materials with learners
Transferable skills
Graphic organisers

23. Matching materials with learners
Abstract as well as concrete examples

24. Matching materials with learners
Where does this lesson fit into:
the larger plan?
real life?
other subjects?
other topics?

25. Matching materials with learners
Questions?
Do and experience leads to remembering understanding and to knowledge. Question to be asked. What do we want them to know, experience and be able to do at the end of the lesson

26. Matching materials with learners
Creativity

27. Matching materials with learners
Appropriate self and peer assessment tools
10.25

28. Matching materials with learners
At the end of the lesson will most feel capable, likeable and significant?
10.25

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Time to reflect and consolidate
3…2..1.
3 things I remember
2 ideas I could adapt
1 question I have

30. Matching materials with learners
Communication
Connection
Cognition
10.25

31. Matching materials with learners
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, Little Gidding
This is another beginning, what will you do with it?

32. Where will you start?
Where will you start?