Working with Volunteers/Critical Literacy
Notes on Working with Volunteers
1. What do you think helps create a good working relationship between you and a volunteer?
a. Interest in teaching
b. Sharing ideas
c. Common interests
d. Mutual respect
e. Curiosity
f. Make them feel like their ideas are respected.
g. Openness to their ideas
h. Create positive working environment
i. Willingness to speak in Georgian and English
j. Josh’s rule: If they speak in Georgian, respond in Georgian
k. Cooperate and work in groups
l. Be careful about comparing volunteer to former volunteers
m.Respect each other’s personalities and culture
n. Be willing to teach and help them about Georgian culture and learn the other culture.
o. Use the expression: When you do _______, Georgian people usually feel ______.
p. Discussed the lesson and reflect with the volunteer. Share your puzzles.
q. Offer opportunities to volunteer
r. Give the volunteer feedback and advice.
s. Find the subject or field that your volunteer is interested. Find something positive.
2. What types of activities did your volunteers do in class? Which did they seem to like or dislike? Why?
a. The volunteer watched first and then did it.
b. The volunteer did a BINGO game.
c. Monitoring Ss and helping individual Ss.
d. A presentation about their country.
a. Interest in teaching
b. Sharing ideas
c. Common interests
d. Mutual respect
e. Curiosity
f. Make them feel like their ideas are respected.
g. Openness to their ideas
h. Create positive working environment
i. Willingness to speak in Georgian and English
j. Josh’s rule: If they speak in Georgian, respond in Georgian
k. Cooperate and work in groups
l. Be careful about comparing volunteer to former volunteers
m.Respect each other’s personalities and culture
n. Be willing to teach and help them about Georgian culture and learn the other culture.
o. Use the expression: When you do _______, Georgian people usually feel ______.
p. Discussed the lesson and reflect with the volunteer. Share your puzzles.
q. Offer opportunities to volunteer
r. Give the volunteer feedback and advice.
s. Find the subject or field that your volunteer is interested. Find something positive.
2. What types of activities did your volunteers do in class? Which did they seem to like or dislike? Why?
a. The volunteer watched first and then did it.
b. The volunteer did a BINGO game.
c. Monitoring Ss and helping individual Ss.
d. A presentation about their country.
Notes on Giving Short Talks with Volunteers
1. Warm up. Brainstorm words about Germany. Show a map of Europe. Whole class
To get Ss thinking about the topic
2. Write support language. Questions. Model with TLG. TLG asks you.
To help Ss have a conversation. See how to do the PW
3. PW. Ss ask and answer questions
To have a chance to speak in English
To get more ideas about the topic
4. Class share. Ask Ss to share ideas about Germany.
To help Ss learn more about the topic.
To make them hungry.
To raise Ss confidence
5. Give instructions for listening. Listen and pay attention to key words. Don’t write. After you will retell with key words with partner.
To give them a reason to listen and know what they should listen for.
6. Listen to volunteer. Write key words as the volunteer speak PRACTICE this!
To practice listening skills.
To help Ss focus on the main ideas
To let the volunteer speak naturally. Ex. face the class
7. Give instructions to retell in pairs. To take turns. Model this.
To show Ss how to speak
To help each other
To be sure both Ss have a chance to speak.
8. Ss retell in PW
To practice speaking skills
To help each other remember and understand the volunteer talk
9. Class check. Elicit ideas about each key word.
To be sure that all Ss understood the talk
10. Option: Tell the pairs to write some questions
To give think time
11. Ask volunteer questions. Whole class.
To give them a chance to speak with the volunteer
To learn more about the topic.
To practice listening
To get Ss thinking about the topic
2. Write support language. Questions. Model with TLG. TLG asks you.
To help Ss have a conversation. See how to do the PW
3. PW. Ss ask and answer questions
To have a chance to speak in English
To get more ideas about the topic
4. Class share. Ask Ss to share ideas about Germany.
To help Ss learn more about the topic.
To make them hungry.
To raise Ss confidence
5. Give instructions for listening. Listen and pay attention to key words. Don’t write. After you will retell with key words with partner.
To give them a reason to listen and know what they should listen for.
6. Listen to volunteer. Write key words as the volunteer speak PRACTICE this!
To practice listening skills.
To help Ss focus on the main ideas
To let the volunteer speak naturally. Ex. face the class
7. Give instructions to retell in pairs. To take turns. Model this.
To show Ss how to speak
To help each other
To be sure both Ss have a chance to speak.
8. Ss retell in PW
To practice speaking skills
To help each other remember and understand the volunteer talk
9. Class check. Elicit ideas about each key word.
To be sure that all Ss understood the talk
10. Option: Tell the pairs to write some questions
To give think time
11. Ask volunteer questions. Whole class.
To give them a chance to speak with the volunteer
To learn more about the topic.
To practice listening
