This week's tasks were quite lengthy, so much to read and making a lesson plan too. I was a bit behind the schedule during the week, but Thank God I have managed to finish before the deadline!!
So let me reflect upon what I have learned this week and how that will be useful for my students.
This week we moved a step forward on the project task and we were asked to pin point the problems faced by the students or concerns of the teacher. This was the problem-determining stage, we were not supposed to give solutions for those problems. This activity was helpful in the sense that while I was thinking about the limitations and concerns the picture of the project that I want to do with my students became clearer in my mind.
For the Discussion part we were give a few articles to read and websites to browse. I specially liked Krajka's article about using Key Pal connections to teach vocabulary and writing to the students. I plan to replicate similar activity with my students.
From the list of given sites, I selected 2 multi-skill websites which I think will be helpful for me and my students.First one is Breaking News English which contains extensive lesson plans to teach writing and vocabulary improvement exercises. And the other is Lauri's ESL Website which contains interactive exercises on grammar.
Finally, came the turn to make the most exhaustive lesson plan. It was quite tough to start with, but once I started ideas started coming easily. I made a technology enhanced lesson plan on teaching Opinion Writing to my students. I plan to actually execute this plan in my class, so lets see what results I will get. One thing is for sure, CALL makes lessons quite interesting, both for the teacher as well as for the students.
Ok. Let's see what week 5 holds for us tomorrow... looking forward to new arenas to explore!
Isn't that interesting how ideas come to mind once we start? I guess this is part of organizing all these great teaching ideas we have been exposed to. I found it exhausting too, maybe because I tend to not formally plan my classes.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, each week we go ahead more we clarify our idea about the project task. And also I consider that using CALL makes things easier for teachers, as well as for students. Nice decoration of your blog....!
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Galo
Hello Dear Friend
ReplyDeleteAs you said this week was intensive, all the readings and planning a lesson was quite difficult, because all the educational realities from each one of us are completely different, we have more clearly how the project will be develop with our students.
Greetings
Loly
Yes, of course I can just share that this week 4 gave me more tough time, even more than you. Searching, reading, writing and then reflecting ! All this too reflects on our reflections how we are in our professional life. Your reflective work motivates me to keep on reflecting,otherwise I sometime stuck with this technolgoy and find difficulty to complete the assignments.
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Athar
Dear Malu,
ReplyDeleteI also have the same routine, I mostly make a mind-plan of what and how I want to teach to my students.
Dear Galo,
Thanks for appreciating my blog.
Dear Loly,
The upcoming project sometimes scare me :)
Dear Athar,
Thanks for the encouraging words. Technology is not really scary once you get the feel of it.
Regards!