Nearly 4 weeks have passed and I feel that with every step made I'm gaining valuable knowledge and experience which help me to reconsider my teaching practice in order to meet my students' needs better and more precisely.
This week's task to create a technology-enhanced lesson plan appealed to me greatly. And I am proud to say that this week I had an opportunity to try all the activities mentioned with my students.We have created our International Economics (IE) Class Blog (http://ieclassblog.blogspot.com/) where as our first step I just gave a list of tasks students are supposed to do, but we have great plans. As I sincerely hoped, students were really enthusiastic about the idea of adding some special "technological" flavour to our traditional English classes.
When I was thinking over and planning our lesson the starting point was my students' need - to improve their listening and comprehension skills. And that was our Project task 3 for this week: to describe some issues. I caught myself thinking: " How logically and thoroughly this course is planned and organized!"
Our discussion on "Reading/writing skill-building" is great food for thought. So many brilliant ideas and creative tasks, a vast list of excellent web resources to enhance these skills! And a special pleasure this week brought: I found a very useful web site to improve and check vocabulary skills of students who learn Business English: http://www.businessenglishsite.com/ .
What a rewarding week!
Hi helen,
ReplyDeleteGreat reflections about our week 4! I agree with you when you write this is "food for thought". all we are learning makes us reflect on we are actually doing as English teachers.
I think we are growing :)
Congrats for your new class blog. Hope you get good results and progress in your classÂȘ
BTW, interesting site about business english, sure I will save it on my delicious page.
Regards Yohimar
Hello, Yohimar!
DeleteThank you very much for your nice words. We are all growing!
Helen
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