Course

English Schoolbag, course 1

Course 1 of the English Schoolbag contains ideas that diversify teaching for the basics of teaching and learning of English. Active ideas support pupils’ skills to recognize, produce, and understand the English language. The essential part of activities is the interaction between pupils. Pupils learn together by playing and moving. Course material includes printable teaching equipment as well, for example picture cards.

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Welcome to English Schoolbag course 1!

This course is part of English Schoolbag of Finnish Active Learning. The course introduces active ideas for your English lessons. The ideas concentrate on basic English for beginners. The content has its emphasis on spoken English and overall understanding of English. We want to share fun ideas for active learning and encourage pupils to speak English. You can also print materials. The ideas complement school books. Active learning helps pupils to learn and it illustrates and concretizes the concepts that the pupils are learning. Playing, different learning environments and using versatile equipment motivate and improve learning.

Course materials are only for buyers. It is not allowed to share the materials.

Designers of the courses of Finnish Active Learning

We are classroom teachers Teija Kauppi MAT (The Master of Arts in teaching) and Eija Leskinen MAT, a theatre pedagogue and nonfiction author. We have trained teachers, day school teachers and activity directors. Active learning has been a part of our teaching for our whole teaching careers. We have noticed that it motivates and inspires pupils to learn. Learning a new skill becomes easier when it is done by playing and moving. We hope that our course would inspire and encourage more teachers to try active teaching methods. For those, who already use active teaching as one of their techniques, we would like to share new ideas that make each school day even more enjoyable. The name of our company is Ideareppu / Finnish Active Learning.

You can follow us on Instagram. In Instagram use for the time of being our Finnish name ideareppu. The updates are in English, too. You can follow us on Facebook, too.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone at home, friends, and proofreaders of the material for the most valuable support. Commendations also for other personnel who were part of producing the material. Thank you to Sanna Hietalahti-Husu from Keski-Savon Uusyrityskeskus Wäläkky for entrepreneurship advice. Big thank you to Mobie Oy staff, Kari Vatanen, Eero Eloranta, Petri Lounaskorpi, and Miira Tirkkonen for advice, support, and help overall.

Text and illustration: Teija Kauppi and Eija Leskinen
Translation: Teija Kauppi and Jussi Koponen
Proofreaders of the material in English: Mari Ikonen and Virpi Immonen

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