Activity # 4

INSTRUCTIONS

Why instructions are important?

Reading strategies:

• Read first the questions
• Read the text
• The last activity is to give them the paper. IF you give them the paper you lose their attention.

HOW

• Clear language: the language for all the students. Simple is good
• Logical sequence
• Concise: clear and short
• Precise: give them the relevant ideas.
• Illustration / demonstration
• Checking: You have to check the instruction

WARNINGS

• Ask “do you understand?
• Have I made myself understood?
• Don’t patronize students

HOWPlan the task

• Prepare instructions
• Get learners’ attention
• Be assertive.
• Use visual, written clues, gestures, body language.
• Demonstrate
• Hand out the worksheet.

When teacher give clear instructions

• Student feel more secure in the lesson
• Student confidence in their knowledge and skills increase
• Student can begin / do tasks faster
• Student can be more independent
• Learning time increases
• Classroom management improves
• Lesson aims might be achieved more easily

Teacher actions	Order (1-6)
Get the students attention	1
Hold up the work sheet	2
Give instructions	3
Gesture the interaction pattern to be used (e.g.work in pairs)	4
Check the instructions.	5
Hand out the work sheet	6

INSTRUCTIONS

• Feedback
• Impulse student learning
• Qualities

1. Specific what worked well?   What needs improvement? Only one change would make the most significant improvements
2. Actionable: What can be done differently next time?
3. Timely: Immediate and frequent.
4. Respectful: look good. Focus on future solutions. No judge who is performing the action.

What I learn today?

I learned:

It's important to give specific Instructions at the begining of the activities. For our students a deficient instruction could generate bad results and maybe could confuse them.

For a better understanding of an instruction, it´s necesary keep all their parts in a correct order. 

I learn that if I create a good instruction, the probability of success increase.

How do I plan to use it in next term?

I will use all the recomendations of create a great instruction in order to design better activities for my students.