As a starting point our aim is to teach and help our part time students improve and develop their English skills both in writing and orally.
We do attend to them individually as they are on very different levels academically. The classroom language is English at any time. We cooperate with the Danish teachers in their home room class so we are aware that we do not “cross” any lines academically.
During our lessons we combine classroom teaching and individual teaching. We work with films and books which we talk about and write about.
Apart from this they each have their own workbooks, but we also encourage the students to do oral presentations on the interactive whiteboard and in front of the other students in general. The background material for this will be books or topics in general which the students have prepared during lessons. This is mainly based on the will and motivation of the students as we do not see any purpose in forcing the youngest students to present projects until they feel safe in front of a class. We do believe that the most important task for them is to practise oral English as they do not have the same opportunity to speak that much English in their classes at Kolding Realskole therefore it is our aim to speak as much with each one of them as possible.
We do not, however, give them homework, but they are welcome to work in their workbooks during the week as long as we are informed about this and the arrangements have been made.
Synne Lindum Haagensen
Class room teacher – CIPP