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I guess you all have read the assignment for this week, which is again one week behind schedule! Therefore, I have thought to merge two weeks in one as you can see below:
Week 3
I guess you all have read the assignment for this week, which is again one week behind schedule! Therefore, I have thought to merge two weeks in one as you can see below:
Week 3
16 March – 20 March
Create some exercises with online exercise generators and publish them on the website under the relevant page.
Read about ABCD objectives model and post your own model, referring to the exercises that you created yourself. There should be at least 3 different exercises (e.g. crosswords, gap filling, multiple choice etc.)
Post and Comment on your Blog.
Week 4
23 March – 27 March
Start keeping an online journal of what you are planning and what are your thoughts and reflections about your teaching experience with the use of technology. Document and report on the new tools you plan to use and the expected results of the implementation.
Post and Comment on your Blog.
The deadline for these assignment is the 30th of march (midnight)
Starting with Week 4 - the Journal writing. The purpose of the Journal is not to duplicate the Blog. The journal should be more like a recording of the process of your learning and working for this classroom. It is also a good tool that you can use with your students in the future to improve their writing skills. There are some online Journals that you can create but I would suggest that we all use
Penzu and in the end of the class you will share with me your entries in the diary (so do not spill all the beans!). A new way of assessment to avoid subjectivity and fairness is by documenting the process of the learning rather than one final assessment of the product. So, record in the journal the process of your learning.
Now let us discuss about the assignment of Week - 3, the writing of the objectives. You know that completing a task successfully needs careful planning. Teaching, particularly, requires a lot of planning and it is very time consuming (Welcome to the real world of teachers! :-), so we need to design our objectives before we start with the planning and designing of the lesson. Who are my students, what are their abilities and knowledge, what I would like them to learn, and how am I going to measure their learning process. One way of writing objectives is by using the ABCD (Audience, Behaviour, Condition and Degree) model. ABCD model
Perhaps you might have heard about them before but now you are going to write your own objectives for a classroom that you will teach in the future. You will need to write three different objectives for three different types of activities/exercises that your are going to create.
Master students of English language (Audience) after reading about ABCD objectives (Condition) should be able to write (Behaviour) three objectives of their own (Degree).
Now comes the tricky part and the one that you are going to find more challenging: creating your own exercises or your own tests. There are a lot of ready made worksheets available on the internet by they do not alway reflect the content of your teaching, so sometimes there is a need for you to generate your own exercises. One exercise generator is the Hot Potatoes, where you can create a gap filling exercise, a crossword, an online multiple choice etc. There is a tutorial available on the homepage of Hot Potatoes.
Your ABCD objectives will be written for the exercises that your will have to generate yourself. Check the class website (under Useful links, Exercise generator) for some more information.
And the very last thing for this week is the Dropbox. It plays the same function as Google Drive, it is just another way of sharing your information online and sharing it with others. When you create your exercises you can import them on a document and together with the exercise, you write the objective and in the end you share it with me on the Dropbox.
The links for the Dropbox are on the Class website under the page with the same name. I am also attaching them here.
Sorry, there is one more thing but not to do for this week but to think. Start and discuss with each other to form pairs and let me know about them later.
I was also thinking to have a video or an audio conference with each other for all the questions that I anticipate coming as arrows from the moment that I publish this post. What do you think about Wednesday at 12 o'clock with Group A and 2 o'clock with Group B or let me know when it is best for you.
I think that is all for this week. I promise that the first weeks are the ones that require a lot of work.
Have a nice week,
T.
The deadline for these assignment is the 30th of march (midnight)
Starting with Week 4 - the Journal writing. The purpose of the Journal is not to duplicate the Blog. The journal should be more like a recording of the process of your learning and working for this classroom. It is also a good tool that you can use with your students in the future to improve their writing skills. There are some online Journals that you can create but I would suggest that we all use
Penzu and in the end of the class you will share with me your entries in the diary (so do not spill all the beans!). A new way of assessment to avoid subjectivity and fairness is by documenting the process of the learning rather than one final assessment of the product. So, record in the journal the process of your learning.
Now let us discuss about the assignment of Week - 3, the writing of the objectives. You know that completing a task successfully needs careful planning. Teaching, particularly, requires a lot of planning and it is very time consuming (Welcome to the real world of teachers! :-), so we need to design our objectives before we start with the planning and designing of the lesson. Who are my students, what are their abilities and knowledge, what I would like them to learn, and how am I going to measure their learning process. One way of writing objectives is by using the ABCD (Audience, Behaviour, Condition and Degree) model. ABCD model
Perhaps you might have heard about them before but now you are going to write your own objectives for a classroom that you will teach in the future. You will need to write three different objectives for three different types of activities/exercises that your are going to create.
Master students of English language (Audience) after reading about ABCD objectives (Condition) should be able to write (Behaviour) three objectives of their own (Degree).
Now comes the tricky part and the one that you are going to find more challenging: creating your own exercises or your own tests. There are a lot of ready made worksheets available on the internet by they do not alway reflect the content of your teaching, so sometimes there is a need for you to generate your own exercises. One exercise generator is the Hot Potatoes, where you can create a gap filling exercise, a crossword, an online multiple choice etc. There is a tutorial available on the homepage of Hot Potatoes.
Your ABCD objectives will be written for the exercises that your will have to generate yourself. Check the class website (under Useful links, Exercise generator) for some more information.
And the very last thing for this week is the Dropbox. It plays the same function as Google Drive, it is just another way of sharing your information online and sharing it with others. When you create your exercises you can import them on a document and together with the exercise, you write the objective and in the end you share it with me on the Dropbox.
The links for the Dropbox are on the Class website under the page with the same name. I am also attaching them here.
Sorry, there is one more thing but not to do for this week but to think. Start and discuss with each other to form pairs and let me know about them later.
I was also thinking to have a video or an audio conference with each other for all the questions that I anticipate coming as arrows from the moment that I publish this post. What do you think about Wednesday at 12 o'clock with Group A and 2 o'clock with Group B or let me know when it is best for you.
I think that is all for this week. I promise that the first weeks are the ones that require a lot of work.
Have a nice week,
T.
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