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Author:
Simon Hilton
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Date Posted: 16:46:39 08/12/10 Thu
One successful teaching strategy that I have witnessed ,is that of using a visual stimulus, during an English lesson , a teacher that I was supporting projected an image of a path through a dark forest’, on to the board , then the teacher when on to explain that as a group we were going to make up a story.
The story was about a walk through a forest, the teacher would start it off and then everyone would get the opportunity to add to it, and so the teacher began ‘’ as I walked through the forest’’.
The lesson plan was to encourage speaking and listening, when someone had thought of a suitable line , they would raise their hand and speak, I was acting as scribe , soon lines were being added, ‘’It was dark and scary’’, followed by ‘’suddenly I heard a wolf’’.
By then some children were freely participating and clearly enjoying the different lesson style, however one dyslexic boy called Arif *, had yet to contribute.
Arif ,always struggled to write and was often reluctant to take part, however he had been following the developing story line and was listening to the unfolding fearsome tale, after hearing the line about the cry of a wolf, he raised his hand and said’’ but I wasn’t scared ,because I was a convict who had escaped from a prison nearby’’.
The words of Arif, were electric, the somewhat predictable class story had just rapidly changed, thanks to Arifs addition.
He had never before ,in a paper based situation ,been able to produce such an imaginative twist, but because of the visual image and the relaxed non pressured way that lesson had unfolded, he had made a huge personal creative leap and he was enjoying it.
He went on to make further additions, including a fight with the wolf.
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