2021-11-18
Re: Improving Conversation with Educational Games and Pairwork
Dear Superintendent of Schools:
Workshop summary
The workshop takes place in 50 minutes. Through Power Point, I explain how to connect the basic skills objectives of many English language public school curriculums with teacher-made games and pair-work. I also provide an 18-page archive of free English language learning websites for games. One topic of the workshop is how games lend themselves to being supportive to classes with slightly varied levels of students.
The provided file is organized around the theme of how to integrate vocabulary and grammar in conversation activities through educational games and pair-work. Through it I show the teachers how they can not only make their own games and pair-work activities, but also how they can use the file to download ready-made materials for their classes from free, internationally recognized sites.
Over the past few years the use of game and pair-work activities have been quickly growing in commercial texts and on free Internet sites. Teachers like to use them because they increase the use of the target language and energize their classes. Depending on the time allowed, there are possible follow-up activities immediately after the presentation, and I would be happy to work with the workshop director in this regard.
The long-term purpose of the workshop
The long-term purpose of the workshop is to encourage the UN to provide an independent language learning (ILL) website that provides language training and lists free, annotated websites that can help facilitate it. The UN would do this in support of its 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality education.
I will ask the workshop director if the participants can take part in the project by completing a voluntary and anonymous workshop evaluation. If this is not possible, I would still appreciate the opportunity to present the workshop to your group of teachers.
Sincerely,
Workshop Optional and Anonymous Evaluation
In support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (UNSD): Quality Education
This workshop was free and voluntary for public school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This evaluation is primarily used to determine whether attending teachers feel that it is not a problem to find good educational games and pair work activities on the internet, or if they believe a dedicated website on this topic with an updated index and a site map for the vast number of available sites would help them more. If the evaluations favor the creation of a dedicated website on this subject, I will submit them to the UN at the request of UNSD 4 for quality education.
Please return this form to the presenter at the end of the workshop.
Workshop Details
Workshop Title: “Improving Conversation with Educational Games and Pair Work for Teachers in Grades 1-12”
Date: __________ Instructor: __________________________
Email: _____________________________
Participants’ Company, Institute, or Organization: _________________________________
Location: _________________________________________________________________
Evaluation Questions
SCORING:
- The “Educational Games File” with 20 pages of mostly annotated websites seems practical to use. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- I would like there to be a dedicated website on this topic with an index and a site map. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
I received a good introduction on how to be able to:
- How games can serve to boost class morale and for the “Practice” and “Production” stages of the PPP method. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Choose and create games for my classes. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Use games to increase my students’ speaking ability and their use of grammar. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Open Feedback
- What did you most appreciate / enjoy / think was best about the workshop? Any suggestions for improvement? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
Thank you!
Informal Workshop Summary for the Coordinator
In support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (UNSD): Quality Education
I’m a retired English as a Second Language teacher, and this was a free and voluntary adult education workshop. The immediate purpose was to explain how to use the internet to increase the free use of educational games and pair work in the classroom. The long-term purpose is to see if teachers feel it would be helpful to have access to a website that provides an index and a site map to point out where free materials on this topic are available.
If the results of the optional and anonymous workshop evaluations support this idea, I will use them to try to encourage the United Nations to offer a website on this topic. This would help promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (UNSD): Quality Education. Thank you for your hospitality in allowing me to offer this workshop.
Workshop Details
Workshop Title: “Improving Conversation with Educational Games and Pair Work for Teachers in Grades 1-12”
Date: __________ Instructor: __________________
Email:_________________
Workshop Coordinator: ________________________
Signature: _______________________ (optional)
Company, Institute, or Organization: ___________________________________________
Location: ________________________________________________________________
Phone Number: ________________________
Number of Workshop Participants: _______
Coordinator Comments
What did you most appreciate / think was best about the workshop? Any suggestions for improvement?
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Thank you!