Successful Teaching Techniques for Guria

1. Successful Teaching Techniques for Guria A presentation of 5 techniques and activities that have proven successful for Gurian Teachers

2. Word walls Age groups: I-XII Ureki Public school Marina Goguadze EkaSaakadze

3. Materials: • Blank wall • Poster paper • Marker or slips of paper to add words • Execution: • Temporary – used with a unit or chapter over the course of a few weeks • Permanent – High frequency words added slowly over the course of the year, no more than 10-15 a week.

4. Benefits: • Provide a permanent display for high frequency words • Help students see patterns and relationship in words, thus building phonics and spelling skills. • Provide reference support for children during reading and writing activities. • A visual reminder • Fun and active learning

5. Word walls

6. Word walls

7. Word wall

9. Potential Problems: • Overload – too many words too fast will only confuse the children • Other teachers objections – classroom wall space is shared.

10. Paper Dolls Kinaesthetic Fun with Numerous Variations Lela Khomeriki Lela Kurtanidze

11. Introduction • From the 2nd to the 5th grade. • Visual application with kinesthetic process. • Listening and/or reading comprehension.

12. First we give the students the texts of description of each bear. Three different text to 3 group. Then we give students all the materials and ask them to dress the dolls according to their texts, including the colors of the clothes. Execution

13. They have to dress: Mummy Bear, Daddy Bear , Baby Bear and Goldilocks. Last they compare if their dolls coincide to real ones. 20 minutes Execution

16. Benefits • This isa whole kinesthetic process but it also requires knowledge of clothes and colors. • The activity will also elicit their background knowledge. It is good for listening assessment • Materials can be re-used over time. • Variations on this activity are many

17. Town Map Sharing our Community Nana Kazaishvili Tamar Tskhomelidze

18. Step 2: Preparation Instructions: 1. Describe your favorite part of town. 2. Where is it located? What buildings are there? 3. Make a layout or a model of it.

19. Warm up: Brainstorming - students with a poster “In the Mall.” Students describe location of the shops using the prepositions of places: under, over, next to, behind, in front of, Opposite, between…

20. Activity 1: Students ask and answer questions about town facilities using word bank and the poster. • “Excuse me, how can I get to….?” • “What do people do there?” • “What can you buy there?” • “Is there a ______ near here?”

21. Activity 2: Role-play (a visitor and a local)

22. Activity 3:Presentation of a project: ”OZU-CITY - OUR HOMETOWN Students build and present layouts and models, describing the buildings and their location.

23. Benefits of this activity: Development of kinesthetic intellect , linguistic intellect , Interpersonal intellect , and space orientation.

24. Word Sort Classification and Language Learning Tamar Maghlaferidze LamziraKervalishvili

25. Age Group: all grades • Skills: kinesthetic, auditory, visual • Materials: paper, pencil, textbook or recording,

26. Execution: • This work is best done in groups, though can be individual as well. Students should then make cards, each having one word. After reading the text or listening to recordings, they are given different categories and words to match to the categories. The groups can be parts of speech, text vocabulary words based on meaning or use, or general word grouping based on a common attribute. • Time: 10-15 minutes, depending on level. Lower levels can complete this faster, older students may need time to explain their word placement.

27. Benefit: • It is successful because all students are involved in the activity • The students learn to categorize words by associations. • It is output without the stress of speaking. • For older students, teacher can ask why a word was placed in a group to confirm fuller comprehension.

32. Build-a-word Word-level Awareness for Language Learners EkaVanidze Nino Zakariadze

33. Build-a-Word • Age Groups: Useful for 1st through 12th grades. Simple words for younger grades, more letters and more difficulty for older. • Skills: This technique is useful for kinesthetic and visual learners, but can be used for listening comprehension as well. Spelling and phonics are the main focus. • Materials: Teacher can used magnetic letters on a board, or simply cut out squares of paper with letters written on them.

34. Procedure • Teacher groups students, and gives each pair/group a set of letters to use for word building. • For younger students, teacher can tell them what words to spell • For older students, teacher can ask them to find as many as possible that they know. • Teacher gives time to complete the activity, no more than 15 minutes for young students, up to 25 for older children. • Students should demonstrate the words they have spelt to the teacher/class

37. Benefits • Small children can be active in the lesson, using their hands for learning • English spelling patterns are learned, color coding can be used for consonants and vowels • Can be used for Rhyming activities.

38. Thank You for your Attention Questions are Welcome!!!