This is Naoaki Nishimura.
It has passed the half of this program since we came to UVic. We'll try to do our best in the rest of the program!!
As usual in the May-britt's class, we learned some vocabulary learning methods. Although there might be not the easiest ways to learn a lot of vocabulary, it depends on students' personality. For example, students who have interest in music are suitable for using music to learn vocabulary. Also, it is important to repeat using the words again and again even if we forget the meaning of the words. She taught us an useful vocabulary learning method; it is called "Vocabulary Book Project." As the demonstration of warm-up activity in the class, Tomomi-san conducted a chain game that tells a question from student to other student quietly. That was so interesting and motivated us.
In Marilyn's class, she taught us a group activity mainly. She taught us not only the demonstration of the group activity but also the importance of implementing group work and excuses for avoiding group work. As one of the examples, she showed us "Lonely Planet." We can make a plan to spend the time in a country where we want to go or the teacher determines it. In this task, we can share our own ideas with each groups while thinking about the plan. Also, students can learn the cultural difference and have interest in other countries.
In the afternoon workshop, we learned brain-based learning from Prof. Lora-Beth Trail. We realized how brain system and learning are related to each other. It is possible to learn and memorize a lot of things by noticing how the brain works.
Tomorrow, I have to demonstrate my warm-up activity in May-britt's class (Gatty, too). I feel a little bit nervous, but I'll do my best!!
P.S
Mari-san, one of the fellows of this program, happy birthday!!
We hope you have a good one!!
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