Hi everyone,
Week 5 is over and I hardly believe half of the way is behind. For now I have shared the information on the e-teacher scholarship to a couple of other friends and colleagues who got inspired by my impressions of the course! I hope more people could have such an opportunity to take!
This week I have read a couple of articles on alternative assessment, practical ideas and guides how to use it. I have learnt that alternative assessment directly evaluates students' language skills and gives them a role in their own evaluation process. Project-based learning is a good way of implementing alternative assessment. I usually have hard times when I need to grade someone and then explain why I put that particular grade. So, alternative assessment seems really attractive to me.
Creating rubrics was new for me, and I think that the site we used this week (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php) is very useful and now I feel more comfortable and can use on very well explained criteria of assessment in various areas.
I have heard about WebQuest for rather a long time and even someone showed me how to use it but for some reason, I wasn't much interested mostly because earlier I didn't see the way it could be implemented at my classes, and basically didn't really understand the way it works. Now I got some new fresh look and I definitely see it differently and I am thinking of how I can use it with the students.
Thinking and writing about a technology-related solution to problem described a week before was a good exercise as it makes you think about absolutely practical things to make your teaching easier and more enjoyable. I do think I will be introducing the things I have learnt so far at the class.
I really like that we are blogging our reflections. It makes me remember what I have done and learnt and make a summary before we move on. I feel more confident for now.
Take care,
Marina,
Moldova
Week 5 is over and I hardly believe half of the way is behind. For now I have shared the information on the e-teacher scholarship to a couple of other friends and colleagues who got inspired by my impressions of the course! I hope more people could have such an opportunity to take!
This week I have read a couple of articles on alternative assessment, practical ideas and guides how to use it. I have learnt that alternative assessment directly evaluates students' language skills and gives them a role in their own evaluation process. Project-based learning is a good way of implementing alternative assessment. I usually have hard times when I need to grade someone and then explain why I put that particular grade. So, alternative assessment seems really attractive to me.
Creating rubrics was new for me, and I think that the site we used this week (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php) is very useful and now I feel more comfortable and can use on very well explained criteria of assessment in various areas.
I have heard about WebQuest for rather a long time and even someone showed me how to use it but for some reason, I wasn't much interested mostly because earlier I didn't see the way it could be implemented at my classes, and basically didn't really understand the way it works. Now I got some new fresh look and I definitely see it differently and I am thinking of how I can use it with the students.
Thinking and writing about a technology-related solution to problem described a week before was a good exercise as it makes you think about absolutely practical things to make your teaching easier and more enjoyable. I do think I will be introducing the things I have learnt so far at the class.
I really like that we are blogging our reflections. It makes me remember what I have done and learnt and make a summary before we move on. I feel more confident for now.
Take care,
Marina,
Moldova
Hi Marina,
ReplyDeleteI exactly follow the way you say, blogpost is a kind of 'summary' what we've done till the week ends. And yes, PBL, Rubrics,Alternative assessment are some of the useful tools that will upgrade our students potentiality, when used in our classroom. these new technology are leading us to new direction that we've never thought would have implemented by us. I am specially loving this part of technological skillbased teaching learning process.
Gyanu
Hi Gyanu,
DeleteI am glad you think the same about blogging. It is my first time I ever use it and I do think it is a nice learning tool. Technology is necessary to make our life as teachers a bit easier.
Wish you a good start of the week!
Marina,
Moldova