Creating a sense of community in the classroom is correlated to more active student participation, engagement, retention of learning (Stubb, J., Pyhalto, K., & Lonka K., 2011). Classroom community also creates affective advantages among students, such as commitment, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of shared goals with the teacher and classmates.
This seminar would focus on the importance of giving students something meaningful to write about when teaching writing – and how to do it, whether f2f or with online e-resources. Dr Tim Taylor would also share his experience of trying to nurture a sense of classroom community, bringing benefits to students’ learning experience, especially with the increase of online teaching and learning. His approach has included Action Planning and a Case Study focus. These are preliminary findings, with more survey data collection and analysis planned.
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View his presentation slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PjSPZX8xwmrUm53CyZAu40u03YzzgHES/view?usp=sharing.
Outline of this Sharing Session: “Writing Your Life”: Improving Storytelling and Classroom Community, F2F and/or Online
Presenter: Dr Tim Taylor
Introduction | 00:00 – 02:25 | Introduction to classroom community |
02:26 – 03:12 | Objectives of classroom community | |
Part 1: Background | 03:13 – 04:56 | Course context: “Writing Your Life” |
04:57 – 06:04 | Questions about classroom community | |
06:05 – 07:32 | Hong Kong context: depression | |
07:33 – 08:40 | Hong Kong context: antidotes? | |
Part 2: What, why and how | 08:41 – 11:15 | Course outline: “Writing Your Life” |
11:16 – 13:16 | Questions about oneself | |
13:17 – 14:59 | Frequently explored themes | |
15:00 – 16:03 | Frequently explored topics | |
16:04 – 19:23 | What is classroom community? | |
19:24 – 21:03 | Why nurture classroom community? | |
21:04 – 25:42 | How to nurture classroom community f2f? | |
25:43 – 28:22 | How to nurture classroom community online? | |
Part 3: Exemplars and e-Resources | 28:23 – 29:31 | The TPACK model |
29:32 – 29:57 | WYL & LMS 1.0: Google Blogger (blog) | |
29:58 – 31:32 | Stage 1: Establishing community activity | |
31:33 – 33:43 | ||
33:44 – 34:58 | ||
34:59 – 35:29 | WYL & LMS 2.0: Google Sites (website) | |
35:30 – 37:03 | ||
37:04 – 37:47 | Consolidation activity (Padlet) | |
37:48 – 38:17 | F2F vs blended vs online only | |
Part 4: Research findings | 38:18 – 38:47 | Survey data |
38:48 – 40:11 | “Apples” and “Oranges” | |
40:12 – 41:59 | Student reflections | |
42:00 – 42:26 | Looking forward | |
42:27 – 42:56 | TED talk about “Writing Your Life” (link) | |
Q&A | 42:57 – 45:20 | How to make writing tasks more valuable to English learners? |
45:21 – 46:23 | Concluding remarks | |
46:24 – 52:37 | Experience sharing from primary English teacher Ms Fiona Yung | |
Conclusion | 52:38 – 53:05 | Closing and thanks |
For more details about developing classroom community, please visit his poster page here: https://humbol.eduhk.hk/posters/timtaylor/.
For more talks and topics, here is the full list of links to both Parallel Sessions: https://humbol.eduhk.hk/category/conference/.