BadakokoNAT!

It was good meeting everyone again yesterday. Generally I felt that the meeting generally went better than the first one. I am so glad that most of the teachers were very much involved in sharing their ideas. This is what makes BETI Book Club good. I love listening to you and giving my own opinion.

Thank you very much for your input on how to teach reading activities. I found that very valuable and hope that one day in the near future I will be able to share some of your ideas with teachers from other schools.
Here is a summary of what you came up with:

Tips on teaching reading, without translation, to mid/high school students in Korea
1. Provide target questions with answers which students to scan for while reading. This gives them a purpose to read.
2. Pre-teach vocabulary.
3. Use of software packages.
4. Post reading: students formulate questions, which can be randomly drawn and put into exams. This enhances autonomy and motivation.

Apparently, one of our club members was involved in formulating one of the software packages for teaching reading. If you have read this, may be you could leave a comment so other members can ask you more about it.

Improvements
As the host of the club, the most important thing is to maximise pleasure among the most number of people. To make our club even better, I would like to quickly talk about things I think went well and things that I think will need a little change. If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them here.

In terms of things that went well, I think we were generally going the right direction to have more "activities"
in the club, and to change the grouping.

The main change I would like to propose for the next book club is to lengthen the discussion part of the book. Next time, we will have no more non-book club related to topic to talk about. I will be passing a number of little cards around for your groups to write discussion questions on. Then we could shuffle them and discuss from these.

Member centerness
Later on I would like to ask for your input on what kind of book we could choose for the next book club, along with any suggestions which you might have. I wonder if this is best done by a questionnaire because it is more discrete.

Food
Feel free to bring food just enough to share with your own small group. There is no need to be too generous. But if you are... we will all thank you!

Any comments, feedback? I'd love to hear them.