Dear colleagues,
Nowadays it is difficult to imagine teaching without online tools. I support the idea that the blog is an effective tool for developing Multiple Intelligence skills. It helps students to distinguish between resources worth reading and it helps the teacher to provide them with the right source of information.
Blogging is great for teachers:
-It helps teachers to develop key competences, to guide their students and it helps them interact, share and receive Feedback.
- Blogging is great for students:
-Blogs allow Multifaceted learning;
-Blogs sharpen writing skills;
-Blogs are Accessible and Engaging;
-Blogs can serve as classroom Management.
I would like to present the idea of an optional course blog for all school and university levels. I feel that the blog makes my activity more interesting with teaching approaches which use videos and it makes my students' activity easier and creative. Video Projects enhance learning and it helps to achieve social goals through teaching the language using online tools.
I have decided to create a blog for my future optional courses. It is aimed at developing key competences. The first page is for the Evocation/Capturing the attention resources. The second page is for the Realization of Meaning resources. The third page is for the Reflection stage of the lesson resources. The fourth page is for the Extension stage of the lesson resources. Pages provide students with reception online tools of verbal and written messages, but sub-pages provide students with all necessary online tools to produce verbal and written messages. Students are also able to find the listening, reading, speaking and writing rubrics posted on sub-pages.
The first stage of the lesson is aimed at developing strong thinking skills. Thinking makes people creative. The emphasis is on either developing strong thinking or assessment for learning to increase the quality. Developing thinking skills allows students to understand the topics in depth, to be more critical about evidence, to think flexibly and to make reasoned judgments and decisions rather than jumping to conclusion. These qualities in thinking are needed both in school and in the wider world.
The process to think results in the process of speaking. Activities aimed at Speaking are practiced at the second stage of the lesson. Students learn to speak by “ interacting”. Teachers should create classroom environments where students have real-life communication, authentic activities and meaningful tasks that promote oral language. This can occur when students collaborate in groups to achieve a goal or to complete a task. Activities that promote Speaking are: Discussions, Role Play, Simulation, Information Gap, Brainstorming, Storytelling, Interviews, Story Completion, Reporting, Picture Narrating, Picture Describing, Find the Difference. It is essential that language teachers pay great attention to speaking activities. Speaking activities develop basic interactive skills necessary for life. These activities make students more active in the learning process and at the same time make their learning more meaningful and fun for them in flipped classroom. Flipped classroom is a method of teaching students study new material at home, for example, with videos or over Internet and discuss and practice it with teachers in class, instead of the usual method where teachers present new material at school and students practice it at home.
The third stage of the lesson is aimed at developing listening skills. Listening like reading, writing and speaking is a complex process best developed by practice. Listening is a vital skill providing the basis for successful communication and successful professional career. Effective listening skill enhance the ability to learn and adapt the new information, knowledge and skills. Listening comprehension is more than extracting meaning from incoming speech. It is a process of matching speech with background knowledge what the listeners know about the subject.
Feedback activities of the taught course are developed at the fourth stage of the lesson aimed at encouraging independent work and evaluating writing skills. The blog is essential at this stage of integrating all learned skills aimed at producing verbal and written messages using online tools and judging the quality.
In conclusion, I would like to say that it is difficult to imagine a modern school without online tools and I hope that the idea of an optional course blog will help some of the teachers to develop online optional courses at school level.
Respectfully,
Aurelia Plamadeala
,
Nowadays it is difficult to imagine teaching without online tools. I support the idea that the blog is an effective tool for developing Multiple Intelligence skills. It helps students to distinguish between resources worth reading and it helps the teacher to provide them with the right source of information.
Blogging is great for teachers:
-It helps teachers to develop key competences, to guide their students and it helps them interact, share and receive Feedback.
- Blogging is great for students:
-Blogs allow Multifaceted learning;
-Blogs sharpen writing skills;
-Blogs are Accessible and Engaging;
-Blogs can serve as classroom Management.
I would like to present the idea of an optional course blog for all school and university levels. I feel that the blog makes my activity more interesting with teaching approaches which use videos and it makes my students' activity easier and creative. Video Projects enhance learning and it helps to achieve social goals through teaching the language using online tools.
I have decided to create a blog for my future optional courses. It is aimed at developing key competences. The first page is for the Evocation/Capturing the attention resources. The second page is for the Realization of Meaning resources. The third page is for the Reflection stage of the lesson resources. The fourth page is for the Extension stage of the lesson resources. Pages provide students with reception online tools of verbal and written messages, but sub-pages provide students with all necessary online tools to produce verbal and written messages. Students are also able to find the listening, reading, speaking and writing rubrics posted on sub-pages.
The first stage of the lesson is aimed at developing strong thinking skills. Thinking makes people creative. The emphasis is on either developing strong thinking or assessment for learning to increase the quality. Developing thinking skills allows students to understand the topics in depth, to be more critical about evidence, to think flexibly and to make reasoned judgments and decisions rather than jumping to conclusion. These qualities in thinking are needed both in school and in the wider world.
The process to think results in the process of speaking. Activities aimed at Speaking are practiced at the second stage of the lesson. Students learn to speak by “ interacting”. Teachers should create classroom environments where students have real-life communication, authentic activities and meaningful tasks that promote oral language. This can occur when students collaborate in groups to achieve a goal or to complete a task. Activities that promote Speaking are: Discussions, Role Play, Simulation, Information Gap, Brainstorming, Storytelling, Interviews, Story Completion, Reporting, Picture Narrating, Picture Describing, Find the Difference. It is essential that language teachers pay great attention to speaking activities. Speaking activities develop basic interactive skills necessary for life. These activities make students more active in the learning process and at the same time make their learning more meaningful and fun for them in flipped classroom. Flipped classroom is a method of teaching students study new material at home, for example, with videos or over Internet and discuss and practice it with teachers in class, instead of the usual method where teachers present new material at school and students practice it at home.
The third stage of the lesson is aimed at developing listening skills. Listening like reading, writing and speaking is a complex process best developed by practice. Listening is a vital skill providing the basis for successful communication and successful professional career. Effective listening skill enhance the ability to learn and adapt the new information, knowledge and skills. Listening comprehension is more than extracting meaning from incoming speech. It is a process of matching speech with background knowledge what the listeners know about the subject.
Feedback activities of the taught course are developed at the fourth stage of the lesson aimed at encouraging independent work and evaluating writing skills. The blog is essential at this stage of integrating all learned skills aimed at producing verbal and written messages using online tools and judging the quality.
In conclusion, I would like to say that it is difficult to imagine a modern school without online tools and I hope that the idea of an optional course blog will help some of the teachers to develop online optional courses at school level.
Respectfully,
Aurelia Plamadeala
,