Titurial Classes TD

Mr.Samir Bounab · 2015-09-03, 22:01

Introducing tutorial classes (TD) In Middle school
( circulaire ministerielle N° 1313 du 30/06/2013)

The tutorial classes : What is it? Why ? when? For whom? How? How often? For whom? Where?
TD Tutorial means . TD is a teaching method that allows pupils to apply theoretical knowledge in the form of exercises. It usually take place in small numbers to facilitate the teacher's help .

Rational of TDs in Middle school
Activities in TDs:
- Shows an extra value to learning operation
- Aims at improving the quality of learning
- It’s a mean and another path to “ reinforce – deeper and last the learning operation .
- It’ new occasion for the leaner to acquire new learning strategies.
- Promotes healthy environment for individual teaching and learning according to each learner needs and put into action a pedagogy of differentiation
- Develops motivation and reflexion of the learners
- it’s a chance to take part in dialogues and take part in active exchanges
- T he Role of the teacher:
Prepares and organizes the progress of the TD activities. The teacher conceives them using situations that interest every leaner.
Gives opportunity to his or her learners to interact and work in homogeneous small groups.
Emphasizes on the strong points of the learners and weak ones that prevents them from progressing.
Equips the learners with methodological strategies in their work.
Evaluates in continuous way the progress of the learners as well as the degree of their participation and contribution during each TD
Evaluate the procedure used
To remember : In TDs we have to avoid :
Spend the time copying.
Marking TD
Re-teach or spend too much time making review
Answer the learners one by one
Don’t give enough time for relfexion for the learners.
The principles of TD :
1. conform to the exit profil
2. complexity
3. integration
4. innovating ( expoiting TIC materials)
5. differenciation
6. grading and progressing ( planning from easy to difficult)
7. motivating (inciting to a collaborative work and make the learners more active)
8. evaluation : establish a reflection about the teacher and learners’ works.

RATIONALE FOR GROUP WORK IN ENGLISH COURSES (by Madam Ouzna Mekaoui)

The main objective of learning a foreign ******** is to enable students to develop a communicative competency in the target ********.
The students’ feedbacks at both national and local exams, for the last years, reveal that there is a need to improve students’ performance.
In addition, there is an urgent need to increase the students’ engagement and achievement in English .Group work, half of the class, is meant to provide an opportunity to improve learners’ performances.
A weekly group session will enable to adapt the learning process to students’ needs.

Group work therefore will allow to reinforce ******** practice. Learners will have the necessary support so that their outcomes match the curriculum expectations. The teacher will plan******** skills and knowledge oriented activities that take into consideration Individualised Instruction .

In a group work class learners can develop their skills independently. They take responsibility in small group tasks. They work collaboratively and develop a positive attitude to learning.

-They can have a constructive, immediate and targeted feedback on their own progress.
They can also acquire and practise the learning strategies they need to interact with peers.
-They can take part actively in their project work , with the support of their teacher
- They can develop their own tools to organise their work.
- They can have significant amount of speaking time which implies a more active role in the learning process and a positive feeling to learning a foreign ********

Suggested types for grouping students :

Type one :Mixed ability groups
Mixed ability grouping enables learners to cope with real life working context , where people of different abilities work together. It has , therefore the advantage of a social inclusion and equal opportunities2
-It is necessary to have a balanced number of different levels in each group
- The weaker learners will have more practice
- It enables teachers to engage the talented ones to support the weaker classmates once he/she has finished the assigned task.
- It enables to foster the development of co-operative skills

Type two:setting according to achievements:
This kind of grouping requires a diagnostic test. For the time being it will comply to the national exam type in English, the current written test. The shortcoming of such diagnostic test is that it is not really accountable for being organized after a long summer holiday .It is based on academic achievement only. It would be better to take into account teachers evaluations of previous learners’ attainment of the last school year, in foreign ********s.
The advantage of such grouping is that it enables the teacher to organise the courses and plan activities according to learners’ needs. It enables to raise learner achievement, better scores in tests .It also allows students to gain confidence and take risks, in terms of attitude to learning : being in nearly similar attainment category prevents inhibition and negativefeeling due to pressure of brighter students Finally it can lessen behaviour problems.

Group work objectives throughout the middle school cycle:
Four aspects are to be considered to plan a group work syllabus
Communicative competency and interaction
******** skills
Learning strategies
Social skills ( personal and interpersonal)

Typology of tasks and activities
Product and process oriented tasks:
Meaningful and manipulative ******** activities
Project work
Role play and simulations
Survey/ questionnaire
Interview
Listing /categorizing
Information gap
Cloze test/gap filling
Matching/ jigsaw
Problem solving activities
* Games
Selecting material
Songs
Story telling
Information transfer
Transformation
Presentation of a group work/ poster .

Here is the a sample of TD lesson plan:

https://fr.scribd.com/doc/275835853/Td-Lesson-Plan

Thank You.

By Mr.Samir Bounab ( Teacher Trainer at MONE)