Dr. Morrow's presentations from December 2019

This post showcases two presentations that Dr. Jeffrey S. Morrow made at the PIGATE gathering on December 14, 2019, on:

1. Keys to Successful Student Motivation; &
2. Successful Pronunciation Teaching.

These are for attendees to review as well as for the perusal of PIGATE members who had other commitments last month.

If you have questions or suggestions regarding either of those presentations, please feel free to:

• Post them in comments on this blog post; 
• Send them in messages to the PIGATE Google Group;
• Voice them at an upcoming PIGATE gathering (Calendar of Events); or 
• Address them directly to Dr. Morrow (contact info. at ends of slide shows).

Except as otherwise noted, each of those presentations is licensed under a 

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License:
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Please attribute them to Dr. Jeffrey S. Morrow.

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Motivation matters!

Image source: YouTube, Education Week (2019.12.19)

Education Week recently showcased a series of four videos of Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski explaining ways for teachers to foster learner motivation:

•  What Teachers Can Do to Boost Student Motivation (2019.12.09).

The short videos covered "four specific ways to nurture a sense of intrinsic motivation in students" (¶1), namely:

1. Granting students autonomy,
2. Applauding effort rather than ability;
3. Cultivating interpersonal relationships, and
4. Helping students discover the relevance of learning activities.

A list of further readings followed the videos on the Education Week article, and Larry Ferlazzo linked to additional resources in a follow-up in an Education Week Teacher blog post.

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Student Motivation, But Were Afraid to Ask (2019.12.11).

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Sneak preview of PIGATE's Special Summer Session

PIGATE's Special Summer Session (SSS)

Tentative schedule (as of 2019.07.05)

09:30 Preparation and sign-in (30 min.)
10:00 Opening remarks (10 min.): Paul Beaufait
10:10 IPS, Part 1 (45 min.): English pronunciation challenges for English teachers
10:55 Break (10 min.)
11:05 IPS, Part 2 (45 min): Tactics for teaching oral expression
11:50 Lunchtime (60 min.)
12:50 CPS, Part 1 (45 min.): Favorite picture books and stories to share
13:35 _Kitemiran_¹ and _shitemiran_² sharing time (15 min.)
13:50 CPS, Part 2 (45 min.): Experience and tips for learning and teaching with stories
14:35 Break (15 min.)
14:50 Working Papers (_kiyou_) workshop (45 min.):
Reflections, projections, & progress reports;
Preparation and collaboration time; &
Submission guidelines & deadlines.
15:35 Session summary: Mr. Nobuyuki Takaki (15 min.)
15:50 Closing remarks (10 min.)
Membership matters
Newsletter contributions
Other announcements:
Annual General Meeting (AGM), 2019.09.14
Other
16:00 Clean-up (10 min.)
16:10  Steering committee meeting (20 min.)
Presenters and PIGATE members are welcome to attend the committee meeting!

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¹ Why don't you come and see this?

² Why don't you try this and see?

If you would like to take part in this month's session, or to join PIGATE, please fill out one of our short online info. collection forms (https://goo.gl/Hpe9pd). 

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