You have a Year 8 class of 28 students. There is a range of abilities in your discipline and most students are motivated to learn. In the class, there are 2 students who arrived from South Sudan in primary school, completed Intensive English programs and have good communicative English skills.
1.Identify the teaching focus: Explain what you are going to teach these students in your discipline over the next 2 weeks, linking to the syllabus outcomes.
2.Identify the text: Select a text –from a textbook, digital resource or other source –that would be used to teach this topic…it can be the initial text or anywhere in this 2 weeks of the topic.
Explain how this text develops topic/discipline knowledge and why it might suit these students. Identify what you want the students to know or be able to do by reading this text .
3.Analyze the text: Describe the literacy and/or numeracy demands of the text, particularly what might pose difficulties for learners. Use a model used in class to identify elements of language and/or mathematics.
4.Develop teaching strategies: Use the framework of Before-During-After to explain one strategy at each stage
