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Jenny Bixby, Meg Brooks, Nigel Caplan, Miles Craven, Debra Daise, Scott Douglas, Susan Earle-Carlin, Rob Freire, Margot Gramer, Tamara Jones, Joe McVeigh, Sarah Lynn, Kevin McClure, Charl Norloff, Jaimie Scanlon, Kristin Sherman, Mari Vargo, Colin Ward, Larry Zwier and Jenni Currie Santamaria.

Q Skills Digital Flow is a 100% digital approach to teaching. Discover engaging Classroom and Student Lessons delivered digitally, perfect for any teaching situation.

Уровень: A1-C1
Учебные часы: 100

Digital Flow is a new way of teaching with OUP materials. It is 100% digital, with materials designed for screens, creating a simple, intuitive and engaging learning environment for teachers and students alike. Q Skills Digital Flow allows teachers and learners to work seamlessly with Q: Skills for Success materials, renowned for helping students to achieve academic success, whether lessons are taught online, in-person, or both.

Classroom Lessons
Student Lessons
Teacher's Notes
Resources
Professional Development Materials
Online Assessment

Основные характеристики Читать еще Methodology Impact Study System requirements

Основные характеристики

Materials designed for screen. Materials for Q Skills Digital Flow are specifically designed for on-screen use, adapting beautifully to any teaching context.
Content and delivery to match students' expectations. Digital Flow offers a user-friendly experience, with great content, engaging activities and opportunities for interaction.
Confidence in any teaching situation. Deliver your best lesson every time, whether you are teaching online, in-person or both.
Trusted materials. Q: Skills for Success Third Edition is the first course delivered in the Digital Flow model.
Assess students’ progress. Set tests online for students to complete and view results in the gradebook.

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Q Skills Digital Flow
Digital Flow is a new way of teaching with Q: Skills for Success materials. It is 100% digital, with materials designed for screens, creating a simple, intuitive and engaging learning environment for teachers and students alike. Q Skills Digital Flow allows teachers and learners to work seamlessly with Q: Skills for Success materials, renowned for helping students to achieve academic success, whether lessons are taught online, in person, or both.

Q Skills Digital Flow is 100% digital. This means there are no print items. Instead, there is a Classroom Lesson and a Student Lesson, both delivered digitally. Students have access to the Student Lessons, whereas teachers have access to both.

Classroom Lessons
The Classroom Lesson is designed to be facilitated by the teacher and includes collaborative and communicative activities where the whole class is involved. Features such as movable audio and video players, interactive scripts and pop-up boxes facilitate learning and student engagement.

Student Lessons
The Student Lesson is designed for students to complete independently either before or after class, and contains the same audio recordings, reading texts and videos as the Classroom Lesson but offers different practice activities. All Student Lesson activities are auto-graded. Teachers can ask students to complete the Student Lesson before or after completing the Classroom Lesson together. Students need a digital device to complete the work in the Student Lesson independently.

Online Assessment
Q Skills Digital Flow’s online assessment package includes placement, end of unit, mid and end of level tests. Teachers can preview and set tests online for students to complete. Tests are auto-marked and all results are added to the gradebook alongside the progress for the Student Lesson activity results, giving teachers a complete view of student progress through the course.

Students can easily complete online tests assigned by their teacher, and instantly view their results and get feedback on each question.

Methodology

Think critically.
Q Skills Digital Flow develops the critical thinking skills your students need through:

Critical Thinking Strategies and activities in every unit to help students analyze, develop and justify their ideas.

Author-voiced videos accompany each strategy to guide your students' critical thinking and help them gain a deeper understanding.

Succeed academically.
Q Skills Digital Flow prepares students with the core language skills and the softer skills they need for academic success.

The course promotes continuous learning and encourages students to evaluate their own progress with detailed answer explanations and reflection worksheets.

Texts and videos feature topics that have been chosen by teachers to inspire students to engage with their learning.

A research-based vocabulary program focuses on the words students need to know academically and professionally. The vocabulary syllabus in Q Skills Digital Flow is correlated to the CEFR and linked to two word lists:

The Oxford 3000™ and new Oxford 5000™, which list the core words that every learner needs to know, chosen by language experts.

The Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon (OPAL), which is collection of four word lists that provide an essential guide to the most important words and phrases to know in academic English. The OPAL includes both spoken and written academic English and both individual words and longer phrases.

Impact Study

Q: Skills for Success

Q: Skills for Success is designed to develop students’ English language and study skills to prepare them for academic success. We undertook an impact study* to find out if Q: Skills for Success is perceived to improve the metacognitive skills students need for academic study, including core skills, softer skills and critical thinking skills.

* An impact study is research that investigates a particular change or outcome that a product or service has on the group of people it is intended to help or benefit.

Found to help students to improve the metacognitive skills they need for academic study

90% of teachers agreed that Q: Skills for Success has played a significant part in improving the skills their students need for academic study
81% of teachers agreed that Q: Skills for Success improves the softer skills students need to develop effective study techniques
80% of teachers agreed that Q: Skills for Success has helped to improve students’ critical thinking skills, particularly in synthesizing and organizing ideas.

Download the summary report (PDF, 2,2 MB)

How does Q: Skills for Success develop academic skills?

"The content really helped my students learn study strategies especially for vocabulary meaning and usage - they really benefited from the collocations and vocabulary practice. The listening portions also really challenged and grew my students’ comprehension."

Teacher, USA

"The attention to word families has helped students expand and deepen their vocabulary knowledge."

Head of Department, Japan

How does Q: Skills for Success help to improve students’ critical thinking skills?

"…[students have] developed synthesizing skills by having to think about information from videos, audio recordings, their own thinking, and class discussions and then organizing ideas from that information into a cohesive written expression of what they learned. They have gained a lot of self-confidence."

Teacher, USA

"…this series is a whole new world for [students] as they are required to think, analyze and synthesize concepts."

Teacher, USA

Oxford Impact

Find out more about Oxford Impact

The Q: Skills for Success impact study was conducted between September 2018 and March 2019. 115 teachers took part.

System requirements

Teachers using Q Skills Digital Flow will need a stable internet connection, a digital device, and classrooms with projectors/screen/Interactive Whiteboards. Additionally, students will require personal digital devices and internet connection for online work at home.