Typhoon Board to Gamify your Lessons!

One way to add competition among students in your classes is to use Typhoon Board. It is a grid of boxes. In each box, you can add money or points (+$200 / -$100), and some actions like S (Steal), T or R (Blow away all scores and back to 0), Swap (Exchange), and D (Double).

After completing a task or answering a question, students are asked to choose a box and add it to their scores. This will urge them to involve in order to get a score. Yes, it is a kind of extrinsic motivation that focuses more on scores, prizes and giving a sense of showing off, but believe me they will gradually move to intrinsic motivation that drives them to learn for learning.

How to design lesson plans using 3Ps approach (Presentation - Practice - Production)?

Dear English teachers,

I know that most of you struggle with lesson planning. Actually, this task takes much time and efforts, however, there is an approach that makes it easy to complete. It is called 3Ps. It stands for Presentation-Practice-Production. The following video will show you how to design your #lesson_plans using #3Ps approach.

You will find some examples to get started!