Teachers' Tips:

Introduction

Welcome to We are Busy Beavers Textbook 1!

These “Teachers’ Tips” contain all of the necessary teaching instructions for We are Busy Beavers Textbook 1 and the corresponding Online Resources.

The first thing that any teacher about to begin teaching the We are Busy Beavers series should know is that this is a unique system founded on several key principles. Songs, images, questions, answers, sentence structure, repetition and review are the fundamental elements of this teaching method.

The 5 Component Teaching Method

Every Section of the Online Resources can be explored through 5 different components. These are 5 different ways the material can be approached to help students grasp what they are learning. The 5 Components are – Songs, Interactive Video / Audio Files, Textbook Activities, Classroom Activities and Work Sheets.

A Typical Class Using the We are Busy Beavers Method

Any experienced teacher knows that students’ minds move very fast and they become bored very quickly. A great teacher changes the rhythm of a class often to keep learning exciting and fresh. The We are Busy Beavers “5 Component Teaching Method” offers suggestions for teachers to control the energy of the classroom by switching from one component to the next about every 5 minutes.

For example, a typical 30 - 45 minute English lesson could flow something like this.

• Begin with the whole class singing along to a Song by playing a Video or Audio File.
• Next the teacher could use Flash Cards to review material from the previous lesson.
• Students could perform a role playing activity to demonstrate their mastery of the old material.
• The teacher could introduce a new concept with an Interactive Video File.
• Students could then pair up and use the textbook to practice asking and answering questions with each.
• One or two Work Sheets can be completed in class to practice reading and writing or assigned as homework.
• The entire class can join in a Bingo Game using the new vocabulary taught in today’s lesson
• Lastly, the entire class can sing or chant along once more with an Audio or Video File.

What Will Students Know by the End of Book 1?

By the end of Book 1 students should have memorized the 12 Characters’ names, the 7 places the textbook teaches, 10 colors, 40 verbs and around 150 nouns.

When the students have completed all of this material they should be able to have a small conversation about any picture in Textbook 1.

There are Review Tests in Sections 27 - 33 to check that students have retained what they have learned. If they cannot answer the questions in the tests nearly perfectly then more review is needed.

Each new section of the Online Resources contains “Teachers’ Tips” about how to explore and practice the new material using the 5 Components. Are you ready? Let’s begin Section 1.

The 5 Components

1. Song - The Busy Beaver Song is a happy, catchy little jingle that appears often throughout this series. Simply play the Song Video File and let students listen to the song and sing along.

2. Interactive Video / Audio File - There is no Interactive Video or Audio File to help teach this song. It will be learned through simple repetition.

3. Textbook Activities - There is a small textbook activity at the bottom of Page 2. This activity can be expanded on in a separate notebook or on a separate sheet of paper. Have students draw a big picture of themselves being "Busy Beavers" and show their artwork to the class.

4. Classroom Activities - The small dialogue written in the Teachers’ Tip at the bottom of Page 2 in the textbook suggests that teachers ask students "Are you busy?" and students must reply "Yes, I'm busy!" Get this dialogue going with the students and make sure they understand the concept of being “busy”. You could also slowly sing the words to The Busy Beaver Song and encourage students to sing along.

5. Work Sheets - There are no Work Sheets for this song however, as mentioned above, there is a small activity on Page 2 of the textbook for students to fill out.

Teachers' Tips:

5단계 학습 구성

1. 노래 – The Busy Beaver Song은 재미있고 외우기 쉬운 멜로디로 구성되어 있으며 이 책 시리즈를 통해 자주 듣게 됩니다. 비디오 파일을 재생시키고 학생들이 노래를 듣고 따라하도록 합니다.

2. 비디오 / 오디오 상호 학습 - 별도의 지도 방법없이 비디오나 오디오 파일을 반복해 보여주는 학습을 통해 노래와 알파벳을 익히도록 합니다.

3. 교재 활동 – 2페이지 하단에 작은 교재활동을 위한 빈 칸이 있습니다.  학생들이 비지비버가 되어 그림을 그려보도록합니다. 공책이나 연습장에 그림을 크게 나눠서 그려도 좋습니다. 그런후 그린 그림을 다른 학생들에게 보여주도록 합니다.

4. 교실 활동 - 학생들에게 "Are you busy?"라고 질문을 하면 학생들은 "Yes, I'm busy!"라고 대답을 해야합니다. 선생님은The Busy Beaver Song을 통해 단어들을 하나씩 차츰 가르칠수 있습니다.

5. 워크북 학습 - 이 페이지는 워크북 학습이 없습니다. 학생들에게 본교재 2페이지의 빈칸을 채우게 합니다.