WEEK 5
We are at the end of week 5. On this summary of my learning process, I feel that I'm still like a baby who needs to learn a lot on many new things, easily gets curious and moves very slow. But thanks God, for sending this class a very patient tutor like Robert and this week we also have Courtney who has been joining our discussion at nicenet thread as she an expert on Project Based Learning (PBL) topics.
Discussing PBL has risen extended understanding as we answered questions that I considered fundamental for this teaching and learning method. The one that I chose was the first question: How can PBL be used to help motivate students more? I answered this question based on the provided articles the journal of by Susan Gaer "Turning from traditional methods to project based instruction" . She found a different types of learning where the new method can help student to develop the language skills while conducting a project. This new method was read from Elsa Auerbach's book which is called Project-based curriculum or learning (PBL). I also learned the idea of PBL from had been outlined by McGrath, 2003 that the method will allow the students to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based and interdisciplinary. Therefore, the students with different learning style will get the opportunity to display their acquired knowledge. As I stated on my thread that it is like flying a kite when the player sometimes needs to loose the thread to let the kite goes higher, but then the player will pull it down when there some dangerous conditions occurred. So it is very much like teacher and their students. Freedom can also be a kind of motivation.
Even though we give more freedom to the learners but the teacher still need to assess their students, so I learned about checklist or rubric required to assess my student achievement. The good thing about technology, we can easily create a rubric for our project by just registering to Rubric creators websites which I have chosen www.rubistar.org. It was not that hard to create one when you follow the instruction correctly. We can involve the students to decide the dimension and the quality measured hence they can understand the learning target. when they are motivated they will learn even more serious.
Beside creating my own rubric this week, we also learn how to create a webquest. I reckon, the task as a time consuming one. If we want to make a creative webquest draft I think we have to find the attached pictures to support our steps. It is really interesting though. I made one for kids who wants to learn English through a birthday song. I hope you have time to visit it. The URL can be seen on Robert,s wiki page.
What I really like is Dr. James E. Alatis' quotation: "Good teaching happens when competent teachers with non-discouraging personalities use non-defensive approaches to language teaching and learning and cherish their students." In this situation like in PBL method, both teacher and student are motivated.
See you in week 6
Imas
We are at the end of week 5. On this summary of my learning process, I feel that I'm still like a baby who needs to learn a lot on many new things, easily gets curious and moves very slow. But thanks God, for sending this class a very patient tutor like Robert and this week we also have Courtney who has been joining our discussion at nicenet thread as she an expert on Project Based Learning (PBL) topics.
Discussing PBL has risen extended understanding as we answered questions that I considered fundamental for this teaching and learning method. The one that I chose was the first question: How can PBL be used to help motivate students more? I answered this question based on the provided articles the journal of by Susan Gaer "Turning from traditional methods to project based instruction" . She found a different types of learning where the new method can help student to develop the language skills while conducting a project. This new method was read from Elsa Auerbach's book which is called Project-based curriculum or learning (PBL). I also learned the idea of PBL from had been outlined by McGrath, 2003 that the method will allow the students to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based and interdisciplinary. Therefore, the students with different learning style will get the opportunity to display their acquired knowledge. As I stated on my thread that it is like flying a kite when the player sometimes needs to loose the thread to let the kite goes higher, but then the player will pull it down when there some dangerous conditions occurred. So it is very much like teacher and their students. Freedom can also be a kind of motivation.
Even though we give more freedom to the learners but the teacher still need to assess their students, so I learned about checklist or rubric required to assess my student achievement. The good thing about technology, we can easily create a rubric for our project by just registering to Rubric creators websites which I have chosen www.rubistar.org. It was not that hard to create one when you follow the instruction correctly. We can involve the students to decide the dimension and the quality measured hence they can understand the learning target. when they are motivated they will learn even more serious.
Beside creating my own rubric this week, we also learn how to create a webquest. I reckon, the task as a time consuming one. If we want to make a creative webquest draft I think we have to find the attached pictures to support our steps. It is really interesting though. I made one for kids who wants to learn English through a birthday song. I hope you have time to visit it. The URL can be seen on Robert,s wiki page.
What I really like is Dr. James E. Alatis' quotation: "Good teaching happens when competent teachers with non-discouraging personalities use non-defensive approaches to language teaching and learning and cherish their students." In this situation like in PBL method, both teacher and student are motivated.
See you in week 6
Imas
Hello Imas
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful quote to end your post with. I also like your "baby" metaphor: it fits weel with my "baby steps" mantra you have probably read me writing about. Take small baby steps, and after awhile we will get where we need to go.
Robert
Dear Robert,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment. I really feel like a baby in this learning process.
I just hope that I will be able to arrive at the destination of this class.
Imas