Hello!
My name is Olive Pasynkova, I am an ESL teacher from Russia with almost five years of teaching experience. I am currently pursuing my Master’s of Education in Educational Leadership. I love teaching and try to use arts and crafts in my classrooms together with my students. However, not always do teachers have access to all the resources. This problem has been a part of many educational practices in language centres across the globe. Hopefully, we could make Teaching Tools and Materials more available for teachers and students in the future. Here is my research, I hope you enjoy it. Please, do not hesitate to ask me any questions, I look forward to your comments.
Hi Olive. What a beautiful and informative research poster you have created! Your topic is very interesting and it is something we don’t always think about teaching in a place that has so many tools available for learning. Your topic made me think of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) framework that I have been trained in. It is a great tool for teaching not only ELL students, but all students. See https://vimeo.com/135525940
This handout shows the main principles and ideas of SIOP – see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XSXVx-SVtm3f8IoAG4YBRmR44Smd9V8l/view?usp=sharing Many of the ideas don’t require many materials, so they may be useful to students in countries that don’t have access to internet or other learning tools that we take for granted. Best wishes with your project – I think that it will be a great addition to educational knowledge.
Hi Melissa. Thank you for your comment. I have never heard of SIOP, but I think it is exactly what I have been looking for – creating a framework (or a toolkit in my case) that would be available for teachers regardless of their cultural or global context. Thank you for the link! I always try to make my lessons more engaging and efficient, however, in some contexts, access to many materials is rather scarce. I hope that in the future we will have more frameworks like that!
Hi Olive, thanks for showing us a lovely example of a research poster that is also aesthetically pleasing! I am very interested in your research, and was wondering what data set you used to draw your conclusions? Did you collect data, or use an existing data set?
Hi Rachel. Thank you for your comment. In my research, I collected data, as there are very few existing data sets in the literature. I designed an online questionnaire where the participants were asked to create an experienced inventory list of Teaching Tools and Materials that that have had in their classrooms and a wish-list that they would like to have. Based on the total of 45 responses, the data were compared and a top-five of TTM was created. In my thesis, there are also top-five of TTM per country: Russia, China, Vietnam, and Canada.
Hi Olive, what a fun way to present your research poster! It certainly drew me in. I am impressed with the diverse/global voices that you captured in your questionnaire, can you share your recruitment process with us?
Hi Wendy! Thank you for your comment! The research sample for my study was teachers with teaching experience from Russia, China, Vietnam, and Canada. They also had an option to add more countries as an open-question response. So, when all the data were collected, the global context also expanded to Dubai, Morocco, UK, and South Africa. I wish I had more representatives from various countries. Maybe for further research, I could expand the research sample more, to have a wider scope.
Hi Olive,
It is so wonderful to see your poster come to life as you synthesize your research problem with your findings, and share your impactful recommendations. I am looking forward to your upcoming session!