At the end of the forth week I feel that it has now become a habit to check email regularly, check feedback and the comments made on the task/activity related to this course. Further, exploring different websites has given me many opportunities to find better resources for my pedagogical application. I think I am doing the justice to my students by updating my knowledge with the help of this kind of courses. The course work for this week included Reading, Writing and Vocabulary
Skills, Problem or issue in my class, and the creation of a
technology-enhaced lesson plan.
Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Skills: I read Mei-Ya Liang's article which included Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books. It shows how reading skill can be focused using the internet. The activities which encourage online reading/ebook reading make the learner and the teacher a good experience with an added variety to normal pedagogy. I found that the method used here can be employed in my class to encourage my students read as well. Moreover, I explored different websites and some of them were added to my delicious. Out of the websites I explored, I found out that www.manything.com is useful. I even tried out some of the activities to different age groups. This leaves room for me to recommend the website to any teacher. After writing the ABCD objective this time I feel very confident in writing them.
Problem or Issue: I figured out a problem that I face in one of the classes I handle. That group of students is not confident in using the practical phonology related tasks. Then I thought of a solution and I planned to open a blog discussion. I hope there would be some more technology solutions for me. Also, I hope that my solution would help me in making my pupils more interactive and confident in using phonetics.
Technology-enhaced lesson plan: As Robert Elliott highlights in his article on writing a technology enhanced lesson plan, the use of technology in lessons has risks and should have a Plan B. I used to have a plan B but have never included that plan to my lesson plan. This idea of including Plan B to my lesson plan will give me more confidence.
Though this week was little busy I tried to find my time to the best of my ability. The biggest asset we have in front of us is our company; the colleagues who always engaged in giving valuable comments. It helps one another. All in all I really enjoyed this week as well.
Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Skills: I read Mei-Ya Liang's article which included Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books. It shows how reading skill can be focused using the internet. The activities which encourage online reading/ebook reading make the learner and the teacher a good experience with an added variety to normal pedagogy. I found that the method used here can be employed in my class to encourage my students read as well. Moreover, I explored different websites and some of them were added to my delicious. Out of the websites I explored, I found out that www.manything.com is useful. I even tried out some of the activities to different age groups. This leaves room for me to recommend the website to any teacher. After writing the ABCD objective this time I feel very confident in writing them.
Problem or Issue: I figured out a problem that I face in one of the classes I handle. That group of students is not confident in using the practical phonology related tasks. Then I thought of a solution and I planned to open a blog discussion. I hope there would be some more technology solutions for me. Also, I hope that my solution would help me in making my pupils more interactive and confident in using phonetics.
Technology-enhaced lesson plan: As Robert Elliott highlights in his article on writing a technology enhanced lesson plan, the use of technology in lessons has risks and should have a Plan B. I used to have a plan B but have never included that plan to my lesson plan. This idea of including Plan B to my lesson plan will give me more confidence.
Though this week was little busy I tried to find my time to the best of my ability. The biggest asset we have in front of us is our company; the colleagues who always engaged in giving valuable comments. It helps one another. All in all I really enjoyed this week as well.
Great post Esala!
ReplyDeleteYou've motivated me to read Robert Elliot's article on lessons plans. Thanks for sharing with us.
Juan