week 6: My refelction

I have used power point many times, but I have learned something new this week. it seem like I had just worked on it. To be honest, I did not like that especially the hyperlink. It took long time. I was frustrated a little bit. it was hard for me to prepare a revision for the test on unit 3. But, when I presented it in the class I saw all the students active with me. They did not want to go for a break. The losers asked me to prepare another game and promised to win next time. I know it is difficult for me, but when I remember their performance, I feel excited again.

You can see my power powint on the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxCALs5cKjqYN3g3UzVCeVA5MjQ/edit?usp=sharing

This technique helped me to deal with large classes as well. One class before, they were working in groups of six. Each group has a leader. These groups were divided equally. I believed that these groups will be the same even in the next semester because they are almost in a good harmony. They were give one task to work on. The leader were asked to give a role for each member. I notice that students were doing very hard job. In this case they will not receive any new information. So, decided to have their emails and send them announcements and assignments via email.

Week 6: Project Task 5

My students are at an intermediate school. Their ages range from thirteen to fifteen years old. Their first language is Arabic. Those students study at public school. Unlike private schools, English ,in public schools,  is taught in grade seven around the age of twelve which seems a late age to teach a second language. In this case, students are weak in learning. This is a very quick information about my students.

I was thinking of a creative technique to review unit 3 with my students before the test. When I started to read the task for this week, I found that power point is a good I idea to present review the unit. It is not only because it is power point, but also it is prepared in a different technique. it guessed it would create a competition among them.  I prepared an interactive power point for my  class and took them to the learning Resources Center (LRC). I divided the into groups. I tried hard to make them at the same level. Each group has a leader who controls the his group. each students took at least one chance to answer with no help. The one who asked for help made his group lose a half of points. Students were enthusiastic. Even weak ones; they were very active. That was  an enjoybale class. I enjoyed it as well. My students asked me to review the next unit using the same way. I know it is hard to prepare that, but I have to do it.

Week 5: Extra Credit Task

Here is my Lesson plan. But, this time it is different. I tried to practice what I have learned this week. It ia about Project-Based Learning.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxCALs5cKjqYWGYwMU9vTmhtb3M/edit?usp=sharing

Students will benefit from this lesson because it meets their interests. I am sure they will enjoy this new experience. When they enjoy it, they absolutely will not forget it. "education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school" - Albert Einstein

This Project-Based Learning will be outside of class.

Week 5: My Reflection

This week I have learned many things. What makes it more interesting is that I have not only learned from Mr. Sean, but also I learned from a colleague.  To be honest, I have just understood what rubric was this week. The more you get involved, the better get experienced. I knew a good website for uploading my rubric. I really thank Mounira Ben M'RAD for this nice website.

Nowadays, it is easy to find and use the internet everywhere. So my students can use the technology easily. Whenever they have a project or something they have to do, they can get the benefit of it. I asked them to download and application on their smart phones and have them listen to a very short audio clip. To have them do this at home has an advantage. They can listen to the audio at any time when they are comfortable. Besides, they can listen many times. You can download this application from the following site:

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hk.hkbc.epodcast

Week 4: My Refelction

In this week, I learned new things. I was getting better and refreshing in teaching. I have gained the following expereince:

1- new and interesting websites for reading and writing. My students used to feel upset when I gave them an overload from the book, but I was surprised when I say them excited by the new links I added in the class.

2- I wrote about the difficulties I faced in teaching English. Sean told us not to write any solution to these problems. I am very excited to know what he will ask us to do next week.

3- It was the first time to me to write a lesson planned with technology integrated. I faced difficulty to so. I found it important. 

week 3: My Reflection

This week I faced new experience. I was asked to read to articles and write my opinion.  The first one was written by  Lindsay Miller. It was about  (Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials). The other article was about (The Employment of CALL in Teaching Second / Foreign  Language Speaking Skill) by Julia Gong.  I I agree with the fact that speaking skill has the less practice. Besides, computers play an important role in improving skills. The second one was about how to create a website in delicious.com. It is a good website where you can save your links and share yours with others. You can find mine at https://delicious.com/#aaldosar. To be honest, I am not satisfied enough on what i posted. I am going to add more helpful websites later. Thirdly, I explored new websites for practicing listening and speaking. They are easy and difficult ones.  That is to say, there are for beginners, good and advanced students.

Week 2: My Reflection

This week I have learned two significant skills:

1) ABCD Objectives:

I have graduated from teachers’ college which offers educational courses. However, I did not learn how to write objectives for my lesson as I did in this week. We used to write objectives on each lesson but we did not follow the ABCD procedures. I have recognized the importance of these objectives. With this, teacher will know how to be in the same level of students thought before class so that he will be able to understand his students’ needs.  When teacher define his goals, he will be able to choose:

- the proper teaching aids.

- the right method for the lesson you are presenting

- the right resources for your students for their ages

Moreover, the teacher will not get confused and become more trustful. Students like the who feel more confident because they know that he will help them overcome many problems they face during the class.

2) Search Engines:

Before I start introducing the search engine, I asked my students about the one they usually use.  They all know one search engine (Google). They know about (Yahoo) as an email, but they do not know that it has search engine as well. I was surprised because people in my generation knew it. I believe that video games, new technology and social networks dominate their thoughts. Besides,  Yahoo is not well-known as Google in our life. We have an LRC but it is hardly to be vacant. So, I asked the computer teacher to use his room for one class. I was lucky to find it free this week. I showed them the search engine, then I told them that each one has its own purpose. They found it hard to seal with it because of the language; it does not support Arabic.