Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Program Lesson Sharing

Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Program (TFETP)

Lesson Plan Sharing

Teaching English to Young Learners in Taiwan

Lesson Plan Sharing Panel Mary Chi & Randall James

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Moderator: Dr. Jane Chien Director, Center for Research on Bilingual Education National Taipei University of Education

English Curriculum in Taiwan

1997

2002

2016

Test Run English in 3rd grade

Taipei Starts learning English from 1st Grade

Bilingual Education

1998

2011

Official Start 3rd Grade 2 sessions weekly

3 sessions per week for middle and upper grades in Elementary School

12 Year National English Curriculum

English Starts at Grade 1

Taiwan:6 Major Cities: Taipei, New Taipie City, Tao Yuan, Taichung, Tainan, Kaoshiung

苗栗、彰化、雲林、嘉義、屏東、花蓮、台東多數學校還是從三年級開始教英文

School-Based Curriculum

Content & Language Integrated Learning

Taipei WenChang Elementary

Science Games Class taught by Ms. Chen and YiChung Huang

Sound and Vibration

Balancing Butterfly

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Nov. 12, 2020 Taipei WenChang Elementary

Seeds

How do seeds disperse?

Animal Dispersal

Water Dispersal

Wind Dispersal

Students explore how beggar ticks are dispersed by animals.

How do coconut seeds travel by water?

Seeds from plants like dandelions are light and have feathery bristles and can be carried long distances by the wind.

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Scientific Inquiry: Fruit Seeds

How many carpels are in different kinds of fruit?How many seeds are in different fruit?

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Water: BuoyancyUse clay to build a boat. What kind of boat design holds more coins?

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Boat with Circuit

CLIL Lessons in Taipei & New Taipei City

THe Langauge of Science

DisolutionExperimentMaterials

What is this?(teapot) What are these? (chopsticks)

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Science: Classroom language

• What is this?
• What are these?
• Do you know what this is?
• And we need?
• How do you dissolve sugar candy?
• What do I do?
• How do I take it out of the bag?
• Can you do that for me?
• How do we dissolve the sugar candy faster?
• What else?

• Open the bag.
• Put it in.
• Put your hand underneath.
• Write your group number in the corner.
• Don't touch it.
• Get the toy out.
• Dissolve all the sugar candy
• Show me where is 600 ml.
• Hold the teapot.
• Add more water.
• Add heat.

• Excellent!
• Very good!
• Right!

PRESENTATION LOREM IPSUM DOLOR

Experimental Procedures

1. Put sugar candy into a beaker.2. Add 600 ml hot water. 3. Stir.

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Record Data

Record data

1. Get the toy out2. Dissolve all the sugar candy. 1. When you get the toy out, write down the time. 2. Write down the time when the Sugar Candy is disolved.

Dissolution

ViDEO

Observe how students conduct experiments.

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Bilingual Science Class

Question

Definition

Questioning

What must I do?Where must I put it? What do I do? How do I take it out of the bag? Who is going to pour the water?

Put something into water to help it disolve.

How do we disolve the suger candy faster?

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Thank you!

ychien@gmail.com