Despite all
the difficulties like time pressure and low connection…, this week was very
fruitful for me!
Through nicenet
discussions I found lots of very useful website and ways to use them(ABCD
objectives).
Now I have a
list of excellent sites, some of them bookmarked on my delicious page!
What I liked
most about this week’s assignments was the lesson plan because I had to precise:
What is the objective
of the lesson?
How to
achieve it?
How to check
the results?
What
technology to use?
What’s the
alternative plan if things didn’t go well?
The variety of the websites shared by my generous colleagues here make life easier for EFL/ESL teachers around the globe.
The project task for this week spots the main problems we face in our classrooms with our students and by sharing those problems, we'll find out ways to solve them using technology.
My objective of joining this course is to grow professionally. So, week after week, Ifeel the improvement.That's just wonderful!
It was such a delicious and fruitful week spent
together!
I would
like to thank all my colleagues in this valuable course for their generosity
and help. This week I’ve learnt a lot of things through creating a delicious
page, bookmarking, searching about aural/oral skills and reading projects of
previous participants, but especially from your posts and ideas.
Before this week, I knew nothing about most of the interesting sites you
introduced to the group mainly delicious.com. I used to bookmark my favorite
sites the old way saving them on a word document or sending them to my email
box.
Now I am happy with the new skills I acquired.
I learned how to use delicious.com effectively and I started sharing it with my
students and colleagues around.
Concerning the websites for EFL teachers, I’ve
learned some bits through my ELT community here in Agadir that initiated some training
about this topic before especially within the Pedagogical Research Unit (PRU), which
I am part of. I am also very grateful to the people in my webskills class for
sharing the best ideas, websites and classroom practices they’ve got. It was a
great opportunity to learn more about the best ways to teach aural/oral skills
through the web.
Finally, I’ve
looked through some previous participants’ projects and found out some
similarities with my classroom situation, my students needs and my action
research focus. I came across some problems that were raised in my classroom
and went through the solutions the participants tried.
To sum up,
this week was a trigger for me to start working on the following steps of my project
and an occasion to discover more my instructors' & colleagues’ virtues!
During the second week of this very fruitful course,
I’ve learned so many things; I reviewed the way I create learning objectives
for my students and I tried using the A B C D model (Audience, Behavior,
Conditions and Degree) the way they are named and organized in the course.
Learning
objectives should be clear, concise, and focused on what learners should be
able to do after they‘ve completed the instruction. As Johnes, 1997 states:
“Clear objectives can help the instructor design lessons that will be easier
for the student to comprehend the teacher to evaluate”.
Now, I am highly motivated to start a new
technology-inspired change in my classroom. Therefore, I surfed the internet
looking for better opportunities for my students to enhance their active
learning and trigger their critical thinking.
I would like to thank all my friends and classmates in
this course for sharing their best practices, their successes and also their
failures. I hope to read more from them in the coming weeks.
Many thanks to Jodi
and Sherie for their ongoing support and encouragement!
Dear all, Welcome
to my reflection blog! I would like to express my gratitude to Jodi and
Sherie for their constant support to all the participants. After trying
many times, here I am with my blog. I hope to make it full of pertinent
ideas.
