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Message board > COMPETENCY APPROACH IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
COMPETENCY APPROACH IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
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Mar0919
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COMPETENCY APPROACH IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
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Hi to ALL!!!!!!! In a few weeks I am to give a workshop to colleagues of different secondary schools on the topic of "COMPETENCIES" applied in English Teaching. Well, I know what this is about, I have a lot of theory, but I would really like to help all my colleagues with useful real-life ideas on HOW to really apply this approach in their classroom.
A lot has been said about all this approach already having been used by all of us since a long time ago, simply now it �s being called by a different name, and has been given a "new" sense in education.
Teachers have lots and lots of theory but can �t seem to really understand how to carry it out in their classrooms. I have gathered some ideas from friends, and I would like to ask for your generous contribution to my workshop. I would like real activities that each of us use, and to be able to breakdown how this approach is presented in these activities.
Thanks in advance!!!
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1 Feb 2010
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elderberrywine
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Maybe you could explain in more detail what you mean and what sort of contributions you are asking for? Give us a rough outline of your workshop so that we can see what fits?
Dorothea
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1 Feb 2010
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Mar0919
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Hi, Edleverein. Thank you for responding. You see, the contributions I am talking about are IDEAS of what activities I can do with the teachers, and then present to them, how this certain activity fits with the Competency Approach. The problem with teachers in the town where I live is that they can maybe understand the theory, but don �t know HOW to carry it out. So they feel that it �s difficult to plan an activity based on this approach.
For example, one idea a friend gave me, was make sets of cards where they have to get up and collect different information from colleagues. Topic may be PERSONAL INFORMATION, they would have to ask about a person �s name, age, country, nationality, etc. Here, in this activity they would be developing competency to interview a person to gather personal information all the while they are practicing "to be", personal pronouns, professions, etc.
Don �t know if I �m making sense?
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1 Feb 2010
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lshorton99
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If I understand the competency approach correctly, it works in a similar way to the CEFR �Can do � statements, with specific learner goals - things they should be able to do. Perhaps you could emphasis how similar it is to what teachers normally do - they start their planning with what they want students to be able to do at the end of the lesson. Then they just have to break it down into the different areas in which they wish their students to be competent. As you said - it �s not a new theory, just different packaging.
For actual activities, role-plays are good to practise the language and skills for different situations - going to the bank, filling out a form. You could model a situation first and then elicit the target language/structures/skills and get them to practise - this also puts them in the role of students which will help them realise what is necessary.
The Longman Skills for life courses are pretty good in terms of materials - maybe they �d be of use to you?
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/uk-ireland/esol/worksheets/index.html
Hope this is in some way related to what you need!
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2 Feb 2010
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Mar0919
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lshorton99, thank you so much!!!! Very useful and great ideas!
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2 Feb 2010
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