OUP Class Management Pathway

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Classroom Management Pathway

Awarded to Nives Torresi 

Issued on Sep 26, 2023 at 2:16 PM

Description: Classroom management can be thought of as how the teacher manipulates the conditions in the classroom to facilitate students’ learning. Every action that the teacher takes inside the classroom will have an impact on the environment and affect students learning in either a positive or a negative way. Teachers should always strive to create conditions inside the classroom where students are best able to learn. Classroom management is all about creating these conditions. In these modules, the classroom environment is broken into five broad areas, each of which the teachers can influence through their decisions and actions. The modules help teachers reflect on how their decisions and actions in each of these areas will influence the learning conditions.

There are five modules in the pathway:

1) Managing students,

2) Teacher language,

3) Managing resources,

4) Effective use of time, and

5) Body and voice.

The modules all have five lessons, each of which explores a specific aspect around the main topic. Each lesson is then broken down into between three and five subsections and finishes with some questions for reflection. Finally, each module ends with a Module wrap-up, where participants are encouraged to reflect on the content of the module and how this can help them in their teaching practice.

Offered by Oxford University Press.

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Audacity audio clip on Google Slides

Recently I pre-recorded some audio to add to my Webinar slide presentation as I have been experiencing connectivity issues. Therefore to be on the safe side, the audio clips were added to the Google slides presentation which was also accessible to my online colleague and co-Teacher in many webinars. Sheryl would simply be able to click on the audio icons when it would have been my turn to ‘talk’ in the case I would not be present in the live event.

The bonus with using ‘cloud’ based files is that they can be accessed by another person in another part of the world at any time 24/7. Google Drive and it’s apps like Google Slides has always been the prime choice for Sheryl McCoy and I in our many varied topics for talks in Webinars.

Back to the topic of this post… some colleagues wrote messages asking ‘how’ had I created the audio clips and added them into the slides. So today being a middle of the week day, I decided to create the video tutorials … yes two not one. I believe that short and to the point tutorials often help better than long and drawn out tutorials. Plus both of these touch only on the very basic tools and do not require any other special equipment.

The Google Slides presentation is available here for those that want to take their time reading the slides (not that much info) but some images may need more time to peruse. Whereas the two Video Tutorials are below, enjoy! Please leave a comment or query for more information.

Audacity is opensource and available free for download from this site.

Part 1 – Creating an Audio Clip using AUDACITY

Part 2 – Adding the Audio Clip in Google Slides presentation.

Challenges & Discoveries in Teaching EFL

MMVC22 – Online Moodle Moot Virtual Conference 2022 hosted and organized by Dr Nellie Deutsch via Integrating Technology moodle site. The three day online conference took place on 5-6-7 August, 2022, with 26 presenters from all over the globe. An amazing online event for an all inclusive professional development experience. The moodle site provided for all the presenters and participants to get to know each other in the introductions area, participate in earning badges, certificates and levelling up. The other wonderful way we were able to communicate virtually was via the interactive ‘chat box’ area during the Zoom live event and participate live at the end of the webinar by asking questions or making comments – by turning on webcam and mic for all participants in the live Zoom meeting.

Sheryl McCoy and I presented together, our discussion was all about the Challenges and Discoveries we find or found during the experience of teaching EFL face to face or online. We began by explaining what Teaching EFL means, then we very briefly discussed the shifts in Teaching methodologies over the years. At this point we asked the participants to interact by going to a MENTI activity, promising to demonstrate the answers towards the end of the presentation which we did. After this interactive moment we moved on to the crux of our presentation which is the explanation of the SAMNET funnel course design instrument. We created the funnel design based on our work and then matched it to an Infographic with 18 steps that need to be completed or set up for any course to work for the participant and the teacher teaching the course. We will be sharing the hyperlinked infographic in the next month, so stay tuned to this Blog or follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my YouTube channel! I always follow back and subscribe back too!

Live event recording on YouTube

Google Slides presentation link clicking on this link will open the Google slides original presentation, where clicking on the Audio icons situated here and there will open the audio recording of my intervention. I prepared the recording of my sections in the presentation to avoid having problems with connectivity during the webinar, which living in the Italian countryside can sometimes be a real challenge. However very soon Sheryl will add her voice recording too so the presentation will be complete with audio playback. You will also notice the MENTI activity on slides 6 and 10, the QR code will continue to be valid but if not then use these codes below…

Menti links

Please feel free to add your answers or say to the menti activity, here are the codes:

Part 1 : https://www.menti.com/8zqzmjs4xo  (2 slides – cloud & methodology)

Part 2 : https://www.menti.com/w3egptxoz9  (2 slides – Q&A and Comments, opinions, etc)

View the results Part 1 & Part 2 unfortunately the questions asked on Part 2 slide 1 menti are only visible to free mentimeter account holders. Log in to see them!

Certificate awarded for presenting live

Levelling up was so much fun! I actually got to 2nd Place … as of today (8-8-2022) tomorrow it will certainly change as the other participants begin completing their journey within the moodle site.

The amazing line up of 26 Amazing and Awesome PRESENTERS you can read their Bio info here. The moodle site here, joining before the end of August will give you access to the slide handouts and discussion forums. However you can view ALL the recordings on Dr. Nellie’s YouTube channel PLAYLIST for MMVC22.

MMVC22 Challenges & Discoveries.pptx from Nives Torresi

Slide Share link – however the audio does not play on these slides.

MMVC22

The Moodle Moot Virtual Conference for 2022 will be getting underway in the first week of August, the line up of presenters as always is amazing. If you want to know more then follow me on Twitter, Facebook YouTube or Linkedin where I will be sharing the links to the sessions and the link to join, it ALL FREE but you do need to register on the Moodle site to access the Zoom links and eventual recordings or handouts.

The MMVC22 like every year provides free professional development for Teachers, Coaches, Teacher Trainers, Learning Facilitators, Educators, etc. It is a service provided free by Dr. Nellie Deutsch you can follow her YouTube channel here, where you will be able to access all past videos, video tutorials and much more.

The presenters will be joining the Moodle site area in the next days and our first activity is to introduce ourselves with a Kahoot challenge and a Voki. My Kahoot and Voki are below, and you can play and listen to get to know more about me! Enjoy!

Play the KAHOOT Challenge here and View the Voki here

Voki : Teacher Nives

Presenter @ MMVC 22

The date is getting close and I’m looking forward to a weekend of learning and presenting our talk together with Sheryl McCoy! The virtual conference will take place from August 5-7, 2022. Below is the Presenter Bios video created by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, organizer and presenter of the free online moodle moot virtual conference!

Link to join the free conference area: https://integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=249

MMVC22 will take place on a Moodle site. Enroll in MMVC22 Moodle site to get access to the live sessions, content before and after the conference, your badges and final certificate for reflecting and presenting.

The presenters of MMVC22 are educators who use technology face-to-face, fully online or in blended learning courses. You can access the presentations for MMVC22 and the content in the courseware of MMVC22 conference area.

See you there! 🌺

Importance of showcasing

EVO TEFL2YL session 2021

Many of us Teachers participate in many Professional Development courses, online workshops, and most of the time we collate lots of pieces of writing that we don’t normally consider to ‘repost’ elsewhere or put on display. Below is one of my showcase padlet involved in the participation of a professional development session during the TESOL EVO session of 2021. I used a Padlet provided by our Moodle mentor and teacher trainer Dr. Nellie Deutsch. I had almost forgotten about it until today when I accessed padlet for another project in eTwinning, so I thought to share it here and keep it as a memento of that online session … soon we’ll be preparing for another wonderful session online.

Stay tuned!

Video introduction to my week Board Games

The live webinar for my week – explaining the use of Board Games for EFL classroom and navigating the week’s material in the moodle.

TESOL EVO 2022

Another great year of online learning and teaching via the TESOL EVO 2022 sessions. Our session TEFL2YL has been running successfully for 7 years now and has grown with it’s presenters always aiming at excellence in quality. I just received my Presenter badge and am very keen to share it here below.

TEFL2YL – Teaching EFL to Young Learners – comprises 5 weeks of exciting activities each week with a different Presenter/Moderator for the week. My week was Week 3 Board Games and I provided lots of reading and theory for participants to browse, download and save to their own bookmarks. There was a link to a Website that creates online boardgames around the English language, such as verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc. Participants had to create their own Board Game to use in their classroom, make a video tutorial and then share the video on Youtube or Vimeo and then Showcase their PDF Board Game and Video tutorial on a specific Wakelet Space that I created.

The whole session took place on Dr. Nellie Deutsch’s Moodle here

Wakelet Space here

Badges from this Session

TESOL Electronic Village 2022: Presenter

Awarded: 25 Mar 2022

Awarded To: Nives Torresi

VERIFY

Badge for Week 3 – TEACHING EFL TO YOUNG LEARNERS credential

Certificate awarded for Presenting and Moderating Week 3

Certificate awarded to Participants for Completing the 5 week session.

Pandemic Pedagogy Conference

eTwinning project

This year has been an amazing learning experience, the CoVid19 pandemic has reshaped the way we think and do school. One of the interesting sidelines was working on an eTwinning project that was carried out by three schools and the one I work at being one of the three.

I ended up being nominated as one of the founders and it has been a motivating professional development inspiration. Below I’m adding the Genially presentation I recently created to demonstrate my own reflective practice. Please leave a comment, thank you.

Reflection by Nives Torresi

E-book with Phil Wade

The thought of writing is one thing, then actually getting down to doing it is another thing altogether. Some time ago Phil Wade reached out to the teaching community via the Facebook Teacher groups asking for collaborators. The thought crossed my mind that I would definitely like to learn how to go about writing an E-book and also collaborating with a very experienced writer as is Phil Wade. Hence I applied and was accepted then the drafts began flying back and forth until the final product some weeks later came to fruition.

The experience was such that I now admire Phil Wade even more and acknowledge the hard work that goes into producing even a short five page book not to mention the publishing too. However ‘hard’ it was, the learning path has been exciting and another step in the life long learning career that I have delved upon.

Teaching a wide range of learners from preschoolers to teens to young adults and onto business managers has not been as smooth as it may seem on a curriculum vitae. The onset of technology in the language learning classroom has more often than not, made the work of the EFL Teacher that much more committed. Either with the production of tailored materials for the discerning manager or ‘learning games’ for the teens to elicit engagement, all via digital formats has meant that Teacher time is divided into preparation, correction and facilitating the learning.

The E-book in collaboration with Phil Wade is only one of the topics that is often encountered in the busy life of a business manager. Collating all that experience and knowledge to turn that same innocuous information used in a face to face classroom or virtual environment, with the very committed assistance by Phil to make it look as professional as possible is the outcome of this mini e-book aimed at EFL/ESL Teachers in the Business English environment.

Get a free copy of the E-book here.

Prepping Clients for … (book series)

Cover design by www.bilsboroughdesigns.com

Thanks to Phil Wade for the immense learning experience in co-writing this E-book, and thanks to Kati Bilsborough for her amazing artwork on the cover of the series.