Teaching English to Young Learners

Coding and Searching Posts

Coding Posts

In this MOOC, unlimited participants will share a number of ideas in discussion boards. In order
to help everyone access relevant activities, you must code your MOOC discussion board posts.

When you share your classroom activities:

Provide information about your students’ grade and classroom size. Use these codes to help
your colleagues find your activity easily on the discussion board and vice versa.

Grade (G)
Codes: GPK, GK, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6

Key:
GPK: Pre-kindergarten (age 3-4)
GK: Kindergarten (age 5)
G1: Grade 1 (age 6)
G2: Grade 2 (age 7)
G3: Grade 3 (age 8)
G4: Grade 4 (age 9)
G5: Grade 5 (age 10)
G6: Grade 6 (age 11)

Class Size
Codes: Small Class, Medium Class, Large Class

Key:
Small Class: 15 or less students
Medium Class: 16-30 students
Large Class: 31 or more students

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The AE E-Teacher Program is sponsored by the U.S.

Department of State and administered by FHI 360.
 Examples:
Example 1: If you teach a 5thgrade class with 20 students, code your post like this:
Grade: G5
Class Size: Medium Class

Example 2: If you teach a kindergarten class with 32 students, code your post like this:
Grade: GK
Class Size: Large Class

Searching for Posts

In order to help you find activities relevant to you, search the MOOC discussion board posts
using the codes.

When you want to search the discussion board posts for classroom activities:

Put the codes that match your context in the search box at the bottom of each module’s Task 4
page.

For example, if you search for “G4 Small Class”, you will see posts for grade 4 and small classes.
This will allow you to find all the posts with those codes. You could also simply search “G4” if
you wanted to find all of the 4thgrade teacher posts regardless of the size of their class.

You can also search for other terms such as country names, in case you want to see what other
teachers in your country or region have posted. Or, you can even search for a participant’s
name if you noticed that someone else has ideas you particularly like.

It’s up to you! Use the “Search” tool and the codes given to find activities that are relevant to
you.

The AE E-Teacher Program is sponsored by the U.S.

Department of State and administered by FHI 360.