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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 5; Issue 1; January 03
Ten Lesson Plans for Primary Language Teaching
Henk van Oort, Netherlands
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[ Editorial note: Henk van Oort, an inspired primary school teacher and teacher trainer from Holland, whose work is steeped in the theories and practicalities of the Waldorf Movement ( Steiner) , here presents a set of ten exercises well-tested in his own classroom and those of many others. If you teach teenagers or adults, these lesson plans may be of huge interest to you, as they enshrine a number of startling useful principles:
- brevity
movement
fun
use of drama.
My suggestion is that if you teach adult evening classes short exercises may be helpful, it may be useful to get your pensioners up and gently moving, while fun is something for all ages.
If you agree with Howard Gardner, that people learn best through work in a variety of their intelligences, then these ten activities will make good reading.
HLT will be presenting more of Henk's "primary" work through 2003.]
5. All ears
6. Market place
7. The Milkman
9. Table stage
10. Bashing business
100 Remarkable People
by Caty Duykaerts, English teacher, I.E.P.S.C.F.-Uccle, Belgium
Email : m5julia@yahoo.com
Visualising Sounds
Christiane Van Opdenbosch, Dutch teacher at IEPSCF, Belgium
christiane.vanopdenbosch@skynet.be