Values for ELT #0: Intro & Framework

Values for ELT

INTRODUCTION

AND FRAMEWORK

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Andrés Ramos

Concepts supporting this series’ tips for values teaching

Values or Competencies?

Competencies, or Life Skills, encompass knowledge,

skills, values, and attitudes for performance in different

fields as their aim (UNESCO, 1998).


Out of all the four aspects above, this series will focus

on values as a means to address the individual’s

personal growth, with performance as a start and the

person’s inner development as an end.

So we teach them and all

become ‘good’ people?

Diverse philosophies regard humankind as good,

bad, or prone to change. This series does not

discuss the State of Nature.


Nurture, instead, is this series’ concern. To whichever

extent – lesser or greater – values in ELT help, instilling and

exemplifying them impact us, our colleagues, our students,

and our communities for the better.

How does Values for ELT work?

Every month, a value will be published, covering these sections:


• Are You Tired of…

• What Is (Value) All about?

• Talk The Talk about (Value)

• Walk The Walk towards (Value)

• (Value) + ELT Strategies

• (Value), The Perfect Match for

• Inspiration from (Value)

With distinct photo art to facilitate concept awareness and use:

“Are You Tired of...”

… This slide lists adverse consequences

arising from not living by the value addressed.

Using the “are you tired of…” line of

infomercials, the need for the value is

presented in a humorous way.

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What Is This Value All about?

This slide is devoted to definitions from

contemporary and classical dictionaries,

with language suitable for learners and

speakers of English.

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Now, let’s see the value for ELT.

Talk The Talk about (Value):

Three lists:

• On top: Expressions, language chunks, model sentences

at A1-A2 levels from CEFR (EU, 2001).

•In the middle: Expressions, lexical sets, idioms, with

language level suitable for CEFR A2-B1.

• At the bottom: Utterances, lexical units at a language level

compatible with CEFR B2-C1.

No context is provided. The following slides can give you ideas for

situations or topics as contexts in which to place the model expressions

found in this “Talk The Talk about (Value)” slide.

All of the above allows you to match the expressions to your

students’ current or target level, choose those relevant in

your case, and identify contexts to use them.

Ways to assist students in practicing this, next!

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Walk The Walk towards (Value)…

Along with children:

• Tasks, situations, exercises providing meaningful

contexts for young learners, easily adaptable to relate

to your context.

• The activities will be suitable for Kohlberg’s pre-

conventional to conventional stages of moral

development (Kohlberg, 1969).

Teens can also walk this way by…

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Adults and professionals can go along!


Along with teens:


contexts for this demographic, easily adaptable to

relate to your context.

• The activities will be suitable for Kohlberg’s

conventional to post-conventional stages of moral

development.

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A few tricks of the trade to make it happen, next!


Along with young adults & adults or professionals:


contexts for undergraduates and graduates, easily

adaptable to relate to your context.

• The activities will be suitable for Kohlberg’s post-

conventional stage of moral development.

Cognitive: Strategies suitable for the value from

Piaget (1926-1962), Flavell (1979), O’Malley &

Chamot (1990) Gardner (1993), Ausubel (2000),

Jensen (2008) among others.

(Value) + ELT Strategies from

Cognitive, SLA, IT, or Other Nature

Second Language Acquisition: Exploring the language

for each value in the light of contributions by Krashen

(1982-2003), Lewis (1996), Crystal (1999), and the like.

CALL-ICT: Pinpointing techniques to practice each value from

concepts by Procter (2003), Graham (2005), Sharma (2007),

Klopfer et al. (2009), UNESCO (2011), and more.

Let’s see how all this connects across the curriculum.

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(Value), The Perfect Match for…

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Three boxes: One for Elementary School

subjects, another one for High School, and the

last one for Careers and ESP.

Each subject / career listed will suggest a specific idea

or topic related to each value. The purpose is to help

teachers intertwine the value with their syllabi, thus

avoiding distractions and optimizing planning.

The criteria for these cross-curricular links stem from

UNESCO (1998), the Common Core (2010), and local

curricula as standardized by national agencies.

Last but not least, inspiration!

Inspiration from (Value)

Anonymous proverbs

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Quotes from personalities

Passages from books that we all hold dear.

Our first value (next week): Perseverance

Values-Informed Disclosures


SOURCES:

For style, clarity, and

brevity, no other

references will be made in

any monthly Value

presentation, as they are

stated herein.

CONTACT AND INQUIRIES:

For further info on the series, or its sources, author activities and related matters, or to make an

inquiry, please contact Andrés Ramos via SlideShare message, comment thread, or by clicking

the buttons of his other social media under (or to the left of) this presentation.

RIGHTS & CLEARANCES:

This series is available as Creative Commons Attribution-

NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Photo art has

been diligently secured from royalty-free sources and duly

attributed on each slide. If any rights have been inadvertedly

overlooked, Andrés Ramos will be pleased to make the

necessary arrangements at the earliest opportunity (see

Contact and Inquiries below).

ENTIRETY OF WORK:

Each monthly Value, this Introduction, and any future supplementary audio, video, text, image,

interactive resources or links stored in any form or service, constitute one single work for

authorship, moral rights, title, clearances, and other purposes hereof.

Next, preview and find links to Values for ELT published!

Values for ELT

PERSEVERANCE

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Andrés Ramos

The first installment of this series, available at

http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-1-perseverance










Values for ELT

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Andrés Ramos

The second installment of this series, available at

http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-2-work

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Values for ELT

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Andrés Ramos

The third installment of this series, available at

http://www.slideshare.net/AndrsRamos/values-for-elt-3-initiative

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Values for ELT

INTRODUCTION

AND FRAMEWORK


Andrés Ramos

Concepts supporting this series’ tips for values teaching

Education

Values for ELT #0: Intro & Framework