Feedback Through Chunks, Pilgrims Summer 2013

Hanna Kryszewska, Poland

Hanna Kryszewska is a teacher, teacher trainer, trainer of trainers. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Gdańsk, and EU Teacher Training College where she trains pre-service teachers. She is co-author of resource books: Learner Based Teaching, OUP, Towards Teaching, Heinemann, The Standby Book, CUP, Language Activities for Teenagers, CUP, The Company Words Keep, DELTA Publishing, and a course book series for secondary schools: ForMat, Macmillan. She is also co-author of a video based teacher training course: Observing English Lessons. Hania is a Pilgrims trainer and editor of HLT Magazine. She is a firm believer in lexical chunking. E-mail: hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk

This is my favourite way of getting mid course feedback at Pilgrims. It involves chunks of language, and it is short and sweet.

1. On separate sheets of paper write the following headings:
   • My course
   • My class
   • My tutor
   • My afternoon/evening
   • Other
   • Next week
2. Teachers on the TT course mill around and write chunks which come to their minds on each of the six areas.
3. Display the sheets.
4. Everyone looks at the outcome and a discussion follows.

Thank you my lovely teachers on the Teaching Advanced Students course, July 2013. :)

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