Learning Techniques

WE LEARN BY DOING - MOVEMENT - EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING - ENVIRONMENTAL - PRACTICAL - ACTIVE - REAL LIFE - COMMUNAL

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 Kinesthetic Learning

Make letters with string.

Step on the right letter when it is called.


Big cat (meo), small cat, big cucumber (mun), 
medium cucumber, small cucumber.
Step on the correct picture when it is called.

Small mun. Big cucumber. Use Jarai and English together.

 Go fast and slow. Call words quickly.

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Tactile Letters and Numbers (Made from Beans)

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 Stepping and Moving


Chalk letters of initial sounds.

Learner must move from letter to letter
as we sing “Head, shoulders, knees and toes”.
Learner must touch body parts. 

Learner steps on I (“eyes”), puts hand to eyes, 
while listening to the song.

 Learner steps on N while hand is on nose.

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 One on One

Using Rosewood Park.

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Market Practice

 This is our market table.

 We practice selling and buying things.

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  At the Farmer’s Market

Now we try to sell things at Teacher Daniel’s table.

We practice English.

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  By Ourselves: Goat Lady Open House (Sept 30, 2012)
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 We plan to sell 100 plates at the Open House of Goat Lady Farm.

 At 2 AM, some women started to cook noodles.

At 7 AM, we are ready to make the spring rolls.

Everyone helps. Some people must then leave for church.

 At 1 PM we leave for the farm. 

 Here is the Goat Lady Dairy Farm.

Many people come to visit.

This is a beehive, a house for bees.

 Here we will sell food.

 Montagnard weavers also sell things.

 We set up our table.

Here is our table. We are ready.

This is our menu.

We have a tip jar.

We have water, spring rolls, plates, and dipping sauce.

Customers come to buy our food.

We ask, “What do you want?”

 We ask, “Do you want water?”

We ask, “Do you want spring rolls with chicken or no chicken?”

 We take money and give change.

 Here is your change.

We are very busy.

 We have had a long day.

We sold 100 plates of spring rolls. 

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 Using the Neighborhood: Burger King

Food recipes and conversation.

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American House, American Food

Welcomed by Teacher Marilyn.

American ingredients, measurements, and recipe.

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 Shared Interest

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Everyone Together

Left hand up. 


You help me.


Like this.

Who is teaching who?

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