1. Teaching 21st century
students
Dante Cuevas
Adapted from the talk given at the
Mextesol Morelos Regional
Convention on September 9, 2012
With speaker´s notes in white
3. Can you remember having a (boring) teacher with little or no
emotional expressiveness? How much do you remember
learning in classes like this?
4. Give your
classes
Without any form of emotion in
the classroom our teachings are
bound to fade into oblivion
5. You´re about to be given a sneak peek into my
upcoming book “Neuro-Emotional Learning”
which places emotion at the core of its
approach to learning.
6. EMOTIONAL
CONTEXT!
Many don´t realize it but it is possible
to engineer emotional environments
in the classroom and we´re about to
look at some crafty methods for doing
so.
7. “To be or not to be that is the
question”
This quote from Shakespeare
can be said in many tones of
emotion and as you vary
your emotional tone you vary
the responses elicited from
others. Every linguistic
exchange carries some form
of emotional undercurrent
that we often overlook.
8. For this reason it is important for us as teachers to be
aware of the emotional content embedded in the
communication we use to engage with students.
*particularly if there is little or no emotion present.
Practicing emotional awareness in the classroom will help
you to see that, indeed, there is a connection between
your emotional state and what you can achieve in the
classroom. Make emotional awareness a priority in your
class, significant gains can be made in 2-3 months.
9. Paying attention to our emotional state in the classroom is only
part of this “emotional engineering” process, we are now going
to look at other ways to engage students
10. Nowadays, our students are
accustomed to receiving
information in dynamic and
visually-rich ways, if we cannot
match this informational style in
the classroom we are sure to
disengage our students.
For this reason we are going to
look at some online tools that
help us do just that.
*textbooks alone are not
enough!
11. Offline Viewing
For those of you
without an internet
connection in the
classroom
offliberty.com is one
way in which you can
view multimedia
content offline.
12. Youtube has thousands
of professionally-made
and visually-beautiful
documentaries that
can complement most
topics that are covered
in a typical language
classroom. A great way
to engage students.
13. Here is a great site that can be used in several different ways in the
classroom. One idea that came up in this talk is having groups of students
check out three different sites on photosynth and picking one to share with
the class.
14. Another recommended
site is “Scale of the
Universe” which allows
students to compare the
size of everything from
the universe itself to the
subatomic phenomena at
the smallest levels of
physical existence. Great
for exploring scientific
topics in the classroom.
15. Google´s Ngram Viewer allows you to track the evolution of language
through a massive database of books dating back to the 1800´s. Check
the relevance of any given word in the course of written history.
16. This section comes directly from my
upcoming book “Neuro-Emotional
Learning” in which I cover the
importance of certain listening
techniques when engaging with our
students so that we may boost their
retention.
17. Whenever introducing new material in the classroom it is
important to connect it to our students´ life references or it
will not have any meaning for them and henceforth no
retention. Use their vocabulary and their ideas of the way the
world works to introduce new content.
No grounding, no meaning
18. Connecting info to students in subjective ways helps to boost retention full
report here:
http://students.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/2105?e=stangor
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19. 1. No emotion, no retention
2. New internet tools are great for engaging
students
3. Listen empathically and connect new content
to students´ experiences and understandings.
