A lot to admire here--I especially like the way the teacher makes it around to every pair to listen and affirm their examples. She doesn't spend too much time with any one pair but takes enough time to interact with them all.
This is so good. I'm looking for more explicit vocabulary teaching videos like this. Does anybody have another video of Anita Archer teaching or other teachers offering this level of quality in instruction?
This video was shared as an excellent example of explicit instruction in a professional development workshop in my school district. I began implementing some of the things she did the very next week. Of course, some things need to be altered depending on the age group of your students. I thought it was excellent modeling for teachers on how to teach vocabulary explicitly.
Well I use Anita's "Rewards" program, and they have a vocabulary strand in there that is taught similar to this manner. Words -sentences-passages are all pretty out of context for the decoding level of the program, though there is also a content passages program for Rewards that does have textually embedded material.
The teacher is seen pulling out so many contexts by way of examples! Text books may prescribe teaching vocabulary in context but this method seems far more engaging, interactive and effective in its repetition and cognition loading.
Exactly. Imagine doing this on a daily basis. If I was her student, I would not want to go to class. I would also say her teaching is not really comprehensive because she is not teaching them the difference between the informal phrasal verb "throw away" and the one word more formal alternative "discard". I feel sorry for the students.
With all due respect, her TTT is off the chart. The point has already been isolated and clarified you can just leave it to them with additional monitoring and error correction.
