Friday, February 15, 2013

week 6 making the change

As I see, this week work was very interesting and rewarding according to one of the topics from discussion.... which is large classes effectiveness. It has been one of my weakess points during my 6 years on the job because everytime you work in large classes you always need to have a plan B because of the students misbehave or things are not going like we want to.
So I like when I read Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw`s article about it because it put my ideas in order. It happened to me like the article said "Students are rarely asked to process their learning, and discussions are limited." so How can I get a feedback from if they didn`t want to ask something?
According to them there are some considerations we may follow to lead our students to a effective learning, those are for example having a variety of materials for lectures, include pacing accordint to their way of learning, interesting lectures, setting up routines to make them work all in the same way, etc.
I really think that if I consider these ideas on my future plans there will a chance to work in a positive way and it will encourage my students to engage their learning and make the constructivist process easier for them.
On the other hand, when we talk about powerpoint presentations I always complaint about the way people work with it by fulliing information that can be read in a worksheet instead of read it in front of the audience. As a result I realize all the factors we may consider in the constrution of a ppt in order to make it accurate and undestandable to the audience because as the pdf article says the less info in the template and more body language you have, the lecture will be clear and motivated to the hearing.
Finally the "nickname" of my project (it isn`t the official) it is " Technology apply in the use of english language". the project will focus on giving my students opportunities to work topics from classes so they can practice more and deeper in their homes. Every level will have a different place on a website which It will build and by using rubrics or tools given by the course I will be able to feedback effectively their leaning in order to enhace their language acquisition. that`s all for now. See you then, I don`t know if this is how Robert ask us to work with the project task week 6.

2 comments:

  1. Hello Richardo

    Great Blog design!! I agree with you about ppt. Power point presentation is not enough, it needs clear lecture and good body language to motivate the learners.

    Aparna
    Nepal

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  2. Hi Ricardo: I can't agree more about power point. I've seen people just get up and read it. And I ask why am I listening? I could have read this myself at home. -Robert

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