Help with Demo, Please!

eslandaflteacher · Post by **eslandaflteacher** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:03 pm

Greetings,

Because of your collective vast experience in teaching ESL, I am seeking your guidance regarding an "ESL Teaching Demonstration" I am supposed to do with first year college ESL students in a community college setting.

I am scheduled to interview for an ESL teaching position whose focus will be on developing writing skills. I have taught in FL and ESL, but mostly beginning classes and conversational. I have taught graduate courses related to writing (translation), but I have not taught "beginning" writing per se.

Any recommendation regarding an activity that I might do in my "demo", keeping in mind I am doing it for no more than 10 minutes! And, the search committee, composed of seven teachers, is my class.

I was thinking of doing prepositions. Any advice, activities I might use?

Any insight, advice, recommendations, or whatever comes to mind, I am sure will be very helpful for me.

Thank you for your continuous professional advice on this forum.

K

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:36 pm

If you have a lesson that has worked with students, I would go with it. This is a false situation though because the teachers will already know the material so you are not teaching them. I think I might try something that they might not know about themselves so they are learning. Something that you can introduce in 3 minutes, demonstrate and practice with the students and review. Seems impossible though but if you point out your lesson plan, they will get the idea that you are organized at least.