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The lesson plans and resources in Raymond Van Neste's blog: Learn English by Thinking Globally are free for teachers and students of English language. The purpose of the blog is to introduce the Global Goals to students or teachers of English Language as a rich resource for teaching and learning.
There are a total of 17 United Nations Global Goals and each has its own name relating to its own purpose such as to 'end poverty' or to work towards 'ending inequality' or 'global warming' (these are shortened versions of the full titles). All of the Global Goals will be looked at one by one (in this blog) so that they can all be reviewed and put into the perspective of one or more English language lessons which covers both grammar and skills.
In addition, this blog will include articles and information which might go toward in some way the educational need for change.
Finally, this blog has as its intention the hope that it will help students and teachers or anybody interested in how to go about change in terms of sustainability and need.
Raymond Van Neste
22 May 2018
Method
The blog will give short lessons (all levels but particularly levels A2 - B1) with summaries of the role of the ESL teacher, focusing upon grammar and skills. At the same time it will use subject matter that can be utilised for this purpose. I would like to start to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into these ESL English language lessons (as the main subject for the lessons) and I will do it gradually as time goes on and as I too learn more and more about global issues.
Lesson Plans and Sustainable Development Goals in the ESL classroom:
Since graduation as a CELTA teacher I've had a chance to get a feel for the way that language is taught to students of ESL. I'm fascinated by the current debate about Sustainable Development Goals' and their use in the ESL language classroom. Sustainable Development Goals which are currently being adopted by the United Nations are indeed a worthy subject for focusing upon when teaching. Off course not all students will want to learn about such matters and might feel that more attention is being placed on the subject matter for a lesson and not enough on teaching English. But as a qualified CELTA, ESL teacher I'm certain that good teaching will not allow this to happen.
Material for Lesson Plans:
On my CELTA course I was taught to bring to each lesson not only a plan for each lesson but to integrate a specific 'subject' that would be used to focus either my grammar point or skills when giving a lesson. For my teaching in the future I would like to bring to my students a set of subjects about global issues and to be familiar enough with them to be able to develop lesson plans around them. Indeed, in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals there is a lot of material and interesting subject matter to last for a very long time for students and teachers to relate to if they want to.Focusing:
Also, CELTA taught me to make sure that lesson plans are kept to very specific points. For example, if my subject happened to be about 'shopping habits or retail buying' then the lesson plan would focus only on one aspect of shopping habits or buying. For example, I could focus upon one retailer's selling experiences or a buying experience. In this way the student is helped to focus without having to be distracted by 'wider' information. Also, in this way, as stated, I would think that there would be unlimited material for teachers when using global issues for the classroom.The Global Goals make a perfect contribution to ESL:
Again, global issues are ideal in the world of ESL because they can be adapted to the level of the student without having any of the knowledge (in relation to the global issue) becoming any less relevant or inaccurate in its content. In a teaching class for beginners of English language then off course lots of pictures are useful along with a simple sentence structure.
For advanced learners in reading (as a skill) for example, they would have advanced texts of the same subjects and it is always up to the teacher to make sure that enough research is carried out to enable lesson planning to happen successfully.
For advanced learners in reading (as a skill) for example, they would have advanced texts of the same subjects and it is always up to the teacher to make sure that enough research is carried out to enable lesson planning to happen successfully.
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