Hello dear bloggers,
We are still moving forward in reinforcing our pedagogic capacities through the two key processes that define this E-teacher professional development training:
Connecting teachers through exchange and collaboration.
Familiarizing teachers with the most recent approaches to EFL teaching.
This week 5 program taught us Project-Based Learning, Alternative Assessment, new model of teaching and learning, rubrics, WebQuest and also the first step in responding to our final project technology related solution.
We share experiences of PBL in Susan Gaer, and Don Doehla works. Susan Gaer demonstrated the value of PBL in educational success with Asian cookbook, folktales book production in adults EFL class for Asian immigrants in the USA and also the newspaper publication experience with Latino EFL students in America.
Don Dehla experiments PBL with foreign language other than English, he shows in the PBL of recipe book, children stories book, ABC book production how his students' improved at a point to be able to attend a collaborative class with students of the target language countries.
The new model of teaching and learning EFL comes along with new ways of assessing pedagogic activities, among these new assessment tools rubrics are very objective and have the potential to cover the width of any activity in term of multidimensional view or multidisciplinary scope.
WebQuest is nonetheless interesting so far, we can say it's a completely virtual form of PBL which provides a whole pedagogic kit to develop teaching and learning activities.
We now work closer like teachers' of a same school, we know each other style of redaction, level of teaching, final project domain, give advises and make suggestions. We really care for each other.
Kind Regard,
Mariam
Dear Mariam,
ReplyDeleteYour words "whole pedagogic kit to develop teaching and learning activities" caught my attention. You said them about TBL and WebQuest, but I’d like to use them to describe our Nicenet threads. Our posts are really a toolkit for a modern ESL instructor. I’ d like to stay in touch with all of you after having completed the course.
Regards, Nataliia.
Dear Mariam,
ReplyDeleteI have gone through your blog and noticed that you have summarized the whole week very accurately. "The new model of teaching and learning EFL comes along with new ways of assessing pedagogic activities, among these new assessment tools rubrics are very objective and have the potential to cover the width of any activity in term of multidimensional view or multidisciplinary scope" caught my attention.
I am agree with you we can sharp our skills through reading and experiment.
Thanking you.
With Regards,
Mukti
Dear Mariam, I totally agree with Mukti when he says "how effectively you summarized Week 5". Another thing that captured me in your writing is, when you said," we care about each other". I totally agree on that. It is really nice to hear my feelings from someone else who belongs to another culture located in another oart of the world. I would also like to keep in touch with you even after the couse is over. This is a great chance to meet colleagues from different parts of the world.Thanks.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Hülya
Dear Mariam,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you all Nataliia, Mukti and Hulya. I am always impressed by Mariam’s writing and ideas,as well as I learnt a lot from your comments u made a great effort so I am grateful for you all.