Creating a sense of community in the classroom is correlated to more active student participation, engagement, retention of learning (Stubb, J., Pyhalto, K., & Lonka K., 2011). Classroom community also creates affective advantages among students, such as commitment, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of shared goals with the teacher and classmates.
This seminar would focus on the importance of giving students something meaningful to write about when teaching writing – and how to do it, whether f2f or with online e-resources. Dr Tim Taylor would also share his experience of trying to nurture a sense of classroom community, bringing benefits to students’ learning experience, especially with the increase of online teaching and learning. His approach has included Action Planning and a Case Study focus. These are preliminary findings, with more survey data collection and analysis planned.
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View his presentation slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PjSPZX8xwmrUm53CyZAu40u03YzzgHES/view?usp=sharing.
Outline of this Sharing Session: “Writing Your Life”: Improving Storytelling and Classroom Community, F2F and/or Online
Presenter: Dr Tim Taylor
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Introduction |
00:00 – 02:25 |
Introduction to classroom community |
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02:26 – 03:12 |
Objectives of classroom community |
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Part 1: Background |
03:13 – 04:56 |
Course context: “Writing Your Life” |
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04:57 – 06:04 |
Questions about classroom community |
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06:05 – 07:32 |
Hong Kong context: depression |
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07:33 – 08:40 |
Hong Kong context: antidotes? |
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Part 2: What, why and how |
08:41 – 11:15 |
Course outline: “Writing Your Life” |
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11:16 – 13:16 |
Questions about oneself |
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13:17 – 14:59 |
Frequently explored themes |
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15:00 – 16:03 |
Frequently explored topics |
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16:04 – 19:23 |
What is classroom community? |
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19:24 – 21:03 |
Why nurture classroom community? |
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21:04 – 25:42 |
How to nurture classroom community f2f? |
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25:43 – 28:22 |
How to nurture classroom community online? |
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Part 3: Exemplars and e-Resources |
28:23 – 29:31 |
The TPACK model |
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29:32 – 29:57 |
WYL & LMS 1.0: Google Blogger (blog) |
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29:58 – 31:32 |
Stage 1: Establishing community activity |
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31:33 – 33:43 |
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33:44 – 34:58 |
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34:59 – 35:29 |
WYL & LMS 2.0: Google Sites (website) |
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35:30 – 37:03 |
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37:04 – 37:47 |
Consolidation activity (Padlet) |
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37:48 – 38:17 |
F2F vs blended vs online only |
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Part 4: Research findings |
38:18 – 38:47 |
Survey data |
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38:48 – 40:11 |
“Apples” and “Oranges” |
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40:12 – 41:59 |
Student reflections |
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42:00 – 42:26 |
Looking forward |
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42:27 – 42:56 |
TED talk about “Writing Your Life” (link) |
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Q&A |
42:57 – 45:20 |
How to make writing tasks more valuable to English learners? |
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45:21 – 46:23 |
Concluding remarks |
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46:24 – 52:37 |
Experience sharing from primary English teacher Ms Fiona Yung |
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Conclusion |
52:38 – 53:05 |
Closing and thanks |
For more details about developing classroom community, please visit his poster page here: https://humbol.eduhk.hk/posters/timtaylor/.
For more talks and topics, here is the full list of links to both Parallel Sessions: https://eteachers.online/eteachers/.