Teaching with Bear introduces you to a new approach in your English lessons. It shows you how using a puppet as a language assistant and learner will motivate your classes to learn more English. The accompanying DVD includes interviews with tacher trainer and auther Mary Slattery, real classroom extracts of theachers using Bear, and lots of activities and practical ideas.
Find out how to
- Stage a lesson using a puppet
- Involve a puppet in listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities
- Use a puppet to connect with other areas of the curriculum in your English lessons
- Support inclusion of all children.
Teaching with Bear also includes
- Teaching tasks to accompany the DVD
- Interview with the author and participating teachers
- Thinking about language sections to encourage awareness of your own use of English
- Unit reviews to help you reflect and plan
- A useful Resource section.
Unit 1 Starting to use Bear
Unit 2 Bringing Bear into the classroom
Unit 3 Bear supports listening and speaking
Unit 4 Bear and a focus on reading and writing
Unit 5 Bear and other subjects
Unit 6 Bear's influence - making and using other puppets