Dear classmates:
This week has been successful for me and I think for you too, because we have learned a lot of new things.
First of all I read an interesting article written by Susan Gaer. This is Less teaching and more learning. It´s a wonderful experience related by this teacher that teaches us how we can teach a new language by means of a project that serves to foreing people learn English in a different way. I think it´s importants because projects come from needs and the teacher uses the folktales of the asian inmigrants to make a book and students learn the new language by transmiting their culture.
Other good project was to make a newspaper for the students and it functioned like a real enterprise until getting the school newspaper.
Then I learned something about Alternative Learning Alternative Assesment. It was very interesting because we are traditional teachers and we have been evaluating in a traditional way. Here we have other alternatives to change.
I created my own rubrics following the instructions that Rubistar recommends. This is wonderful because we learned how to use modern assessment by using technology.
Another thing I learned was how to use Webquests. It´s an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with from resources on the internet.
Finally I made some comments to my partners.
Regards
This week has been successful for me and I think for you too, because we have learned a lot of new things.
First of all I read an interesting article written by Susan Gaer. This is Less teaching and more learning. It´s a wonderful experience related by this teacher that teaches us how we can teach a new language by means of a project that serves to foreing people learn English in a different way. I think it´s importants because projects come from needs and the teacher uses the folktales of the asian inmigrants to make a book and students learn the new language by transmiting their culture.
Other good project was to make a newspaper for the students and it functioned like a real enterprise until getting the school newspaper.
Then I learned something about Alternative Learning Alternative Assesment. It was very interesting because we are traditional teachers and we have been evaluating in a traditional way. Here we have other alternatives to change.
I created my own rubrics following the instructions that Rubistar recommends. This is wonderful because we learned how to use modern assessment by using technology.
Another thing I learned was how to use Webquests. It´s an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with from resources on the internet.
Finally I made some comments to my partners.
Regards
Dear Luis, I'm very happy to see that you are learning.
ResponderEliminarI encourage you to find out more about webquests. They are very easy to make with webquest generators, like phpwebquest ( http://www.phpwebquest.org/ ). With webquests students build their knowledge with a constructivist approach. Take a look also at treasure hunts, that are shorter and easier sort of webquests ( http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/treasure.htm )
Best,
Juan.
Hi Luis,
ResponderEliminarI have finally had the chance to visit you and I like the way you summarize everything you have accomplished throughout this enriching week.
We did learn a lot and, just like you, I have also been fascinated by WebQuests. I am looking forward to having mine finished soon so I can test it and share later.
Keep up the great work here.
Warm wishes,
Gilmar