Week 2 is almost over, and I have waited for the very last time to post my reflexions about this week, which has brought a lot of information to develop during this course.
First, I started week 2 reading about the necessity to design clearly learning objectives, which is the first step in every learning process. Where do I want my students know? What do I want my students do? How do I consider they have to work on? are just some questions that can be solved just having correct objectives in our lesson. For this purpose, the A.B.C. method for constructing learning objectives was introduced to us. This method allows us to be focused on the 4 elements that every objective must have in order to be evaluated, assessed and demonstrated because when we clarify the audience, the behavior we want to have at the end, the necessary conditions to produce the required behaviour and the degree that shows what is necessary to achieve the objective.
Other very useful topic this week was new ways for finding information through Internet. In this topic we went beyond Google and had the opportunity to explore more tools for specific research in the net. I have found new sources for my research, I worked specially with LibGuides, that allows researcher to find information mainly from libraries around the world, a very useful tool for researching purposes.
Finally we described our students, It is marvelous to find how different are our students and how common is our work. Here in Ecuador is very common to have super big classrooms that you cannot even understand how can you teach English in this conditions, the only think I can say in despite these big classes we can ( and are able to) teach English, because we love what we do. In the University I teach my students come from middle to low SES, but it is not an impediment they have their own computer at home, this is because they really want to become professionals and they recognize the importance of the technology for learning.
A week full of contributions from everybody which ensure our learning process through Webskills course
Dear Gabriela,
ResponderEliminarindeed each teacher should start asking these questions you mentioned when writing a project. Now we have the necessary information to write clear and efficient objectives.
The fact that you have so many pupils in a class and you are still able to teach them well, proves the fact that you are a dedicated teacher.
Best regards, Laura- Cristiana