Improve Your Teaching With CCQs for CELTA

[@sasr4693]

waaw a wounderful video thanks

[@rare7777777777]

Very professionally designed, so clear and comprehensible! Super-Extra-Ultra-Mega-MASTER -CLASS!!! Bravo!!!

[@anaelenam.670]

Thank you so much for your video! I am preparing to enroll in a Celta course and you give me clarity regarding to what they will expect from me. 💚

[@FergusFadden]

Best of luck with your course!

[@LetticeTravels]

Thank you for this useful info.

[@FergusFadden]

Glad you found it helpful. I will soon get back to posting more videos

[@Moonlightcastle127]

thanks very much for sharing Mr. Fadden!. I am struggling on CCQs, you saved me!!! Hope you have nice day ❤️！

[@FergusFadden]

I'm glad to hear I was able to help you! Are you currently taking CELTA somewhere?

[@Moonlightcastle127]

@@FergusFadden Yes, Mr. Fadden. I will finish my course in three days. :) Thank you !

[@BidyutBasuThakur]

Your video was Good & helpful for my daughter. Thanks a lot. Never mind about adverse criticism. That's a flipside of a coin. You are of help.

[@FergusFadden]

Bidyut Basu Thakur Thankyou and I am glad that it was of help to your daughter.

[@FergusFadden]

Thank you very much for your very emphatic feedback! :)

[@alessandrodavidferreira2797]

Thank you Fergus for one more really useful and important video.

[@FergusFadden]

I think many people have had a similar experience to language learning. This can be really helpful when doing your training on the CELTA as it serves as a good reference point to gauge the usefulness of some of the methods and approaches presented to you on the course.

[@FergusFadden]

@Amber Armstrong Very understandable, they certainly took me a while to get to grips with when I was first starting out teaching. How is your CELTA going? And I always like to ask people, what part of the world are you taking the course in? Wishing you every success with your course!

[@FergusFadden]

@Amber Armstrong ​ @Amber Armstrong Florida is certainly a place I would love to have the opportunity to know more. I hope you're recovering well from the recent storm. You have a great governor down there who is really doing his best for all you Floridians. Teaching is a very rewarding profession - I highly recommend the in person way, as after all, we are all human beings who thrive on human contact. I offer consultations to prospective and current CELTA trainees to help them achieve their goals. if you feel you need any at any point throughout your course, and would like to explore that option, you can email me [e-mail]

[@FergusFadden]

Hey, so you need to find the balance...asking 5 ccqs per lang item would probably be too much. About your other question, I would say that it all comes down to 2 things (1) Doing a good LA so that you have things clear in your head. (2) Keeping your aim realistic so that you can adequately cover the area in sufficient depth within the time. Having said that, this is a really interesting question and one worthy of more discussion, could i ask you to post it to CELTA Essentials community. Thanks

[@FergusFadden]

You're welcome 'sir' :)

[@cherepooha]

Thank you Fergus, I've posted it, hope it'll help someone who's in similar situation. Finding balance is difficult for me, I just... keep talking, trying to help, end up answering my own questions. Maybe it's got to do with my own learning experience. English is not my L1, I was a very teacher-dependant student at school, so were my classmates. Having taught in many places around the world you probably know what it's like in some countries. Far from what CELTA places emphasise on:) Thanks.

[@denissebustamante2957]

EXAMPLES OF concept questios for this topic: THERE IS AND THERE ARE

[@cherepooha]

Thank you for another nice video:) I've been told off by my tuitor for asking too many CCQs now:). It wouldn't be more than 5, but in my last TP I ran out of time because I spent too much of it on Language Analysis - half of the class, in my opinion, had problems with the TL and kept asking questions. Is it practical in this case to just tell them the meaning without eliciting, ask 1-2 CCQs, and move on even though some students still don't understand the TL..? Thanks.

[@FergusFadden]

hi emerald! I'm glad it helped you. Have you recently taken or are you currently doing the CELTA? Have you seen my community on google+ called CELTAessentials? you might also be interested in joining in there.

[@dragica124]

thank u.am doing my DELTA and on feedback was told that i need to work on CCQ. any other resources I could reference to? and pls could u tell me if there are videos on ICQ? Thanks

[@FergusFadden]

+Dragica Jordanoska Have a look at Concept Questions and Timelines by Graham Workman. This book is not the most exciting in the world but it does lay out in very simple black and white how to devise CCQs and also gives many examples. I will soon be putting together a vid on ICQs. However in the meantime, remember that with instructions it is all about making sure that the students know how to best do the task, so sometimes an example or a demonstration of an activity would be just as effective, if not more so, than an ICQ

[@dragica124]

Thanks Fergus. i've read Scriviner on Instr and CQ and am trying to practice. Since we need to write Research and action plan am reflecting on my pratice. I filmed myself in ction and was shocked. So many things I wasn't aware of. I teach mostly YL (6-12) and giving instructions has always been a challenge. Thanks for the video again very informative. Will follow this community as well..keep it up:)

[@FergusFadden]

+Dragica Jordanoska Glad to help. By the way if you would like to use the facebook or google+ celta essential (there are both now and the fb has over 400 followers) pages for doing DELTA related surveys or research and reflection questions I'd be happy to help

[@learningenglish6559]

thanks a lot sir ......

[@dungnguyen-kk9gu]

Dear Fadden, firstly thank for your sharing since I find many pieces of helpful information via your video. Now, I'm really interested in applying concept-checking-CCQs- to teach grammar, but I'm afraid of lacking knowledge. Could you and others share me some nice books and articles? I'm in need of them. Thank for spending time on reading my comment. Have a nice day, all!

[@FergusFadden]

Hi dung nguyen thanks for the comment and getting in touch. The book that I usually recommend is Concept Questions and Time Lines by Graham Workman, here is an Amazon link to it: www.amazon.com/Concept-Questions-Lines-Graham-Workman/dp/0955946107 . I hope that helps and good luck.

[@dungnguyen-kk9gu]

Thank for your quick response. It seems greedy if I ask you for more help ^ ^ hope that your video will get more views!

[@pamelamclay-henderson9414]

Hi Fergus! I hope you don't teach quite as laconically as this.. - good info - but all your students would be asleep by the end of it. !

[@FergusFadden]

Pamela McLay-Henderson I'm not sure if ' laconically' is necessarily a criticism. However I am always open to feedback ad hope to constantly improve my delivery. Any feedback or suggestion as to how you would find these materials more engaging would be appreciated.