Demand High Teaching - Some

Practical Activities

Ana Isabel Marques

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Christopher Thirlaway
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Outline
1. Background
2. What is Demand High Teaching
3. Activities which are Demand High
4. A little practice
5. Further Information
6. Questions

Background

But first, a little bit

about me.

Jim
Scrivener

Classroom
performance was good
but there was little
challenge. Sense of
going through the
motions

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Adrian
Underhill
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What is DemandHigh?
Demand High asks:
* Are our learners capable of more, much more?
* Have the tasks and techniques we use in class
become rituals and ends in themselves? In what ways
do you feel like this, if at all?
* How can we stop covering material and start
focusing on the potential for deep learning?
* What small tweaks and adjustments can we make to
shift the whole focus of our teaching towards getting
Questions
taken from:
that engine of learning
going?
http://demandhighelt.wordpress.com

What is 'Demand High

Teaching'?

Tweaks
Deep learning
DEMAND HIGH TEACHING: demand that comes precisely at
the point where the learner is capable of taking the next
steps forward and helping the learner meet that demand,
rather than ignore it. This is a doable demand. (Scrivener &
Underhill, 2012)

A new
methodolog
y

Against other
methodologies

What it isnt?
Not simply making
tasks impossibly
difficult

IATEFL 2013-2014

2013: Reviewed some techniques of demanding

high
2014: Posed some interesting questions and
explained the idea of PROUF and 3xP

P-RO-UF
Playful challenge
Repeated opportunities
Upgrade feedback

3xP
Practice
Practice
Practice

Practice makes perfect

Ways of demanding high

Classroom dynamics

Student teacher switch to conduct feedback.

Playing devils advocate
Avoid saying yes, ok, good or great and just moving on.
Get students to ask follow-up questions based on answers
given to discussion questions/ exercises

What do you think the

people are talking
about?

Which words do you think you might hear?

Do you think any of the words youve mentioned
could fit in the dialogue? How?

Std A / Std B
What was said after the dialogue?

ource: Traveller / Pre-Intermediate mmpublications

Source: New Total Intermediate - Longman

Ways of demanding high

I find English a bit confusing
*Who would say that?
*Why do you think the person said that?
*How would they say that?
*Could you make a sentence with a similar
meaning using different words?
*How can you change the sentence to make it
true for you?

I hate getting up early.

Its so tiring.

How did it work out...?

Your turn.

Some feedback...

Where to find more

information
The official
blog

http://demandhighelt.wordpress.
com/

IATEFL 2013

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2013/sessions/2013
-04-09/how-demand-high
Facebook
Page
www.facebook.com/DemandHighELT

IATEFL 2014
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2014/sessions/2014-04
-03/upgrade-demand-high-bring-grammar-lesson-alive

Questions?

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