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Making use of PBL and some ideas to be used!

Feeling inspired today!😊 Project based Learning isn't like the projects we did and still do in most of our school subjects and courses. PBL is an approach that it structures its curriculum around projects.It seems like a word play,right? Well, it is quite a bit but that's beacuse of our idea of projects has been misunderstood.Traditionally, projects were some tasks we had and have to come up with at the end of a certain amount of information.It's like the exams we do,we are assessed on how do we perform our new taught information. It's the product of our learning, to put in simple words. On the other hand, Project based learning is an approach not a task to be completed . It is focused on the process of learning rather than its result.The processes students go through while trying to do the project teaches them practical skills of researching and finding solution for the problems they are guided to look for ,however the path they decide to investigate is in Ss...

"Project Based Learning Resources"

Hi there!! I was reading for our upcomong post on "Project Based Learning" amd I found this page that covers almost everything about it,even some practical ideas how to implement it in classroom. If you get lost in the numerous websites I would recomend to take a loke of this one: ☆☆☆☆☆☆ https://www.teachthought.com/project-based-learning/a-better-list-of-ideas-for-project-based-learning/

Flipped classrooms

Hi there!  How is going your day off? Today's thoughts are the results of 'Flipped Classroom material'. A thing I would like to state in advance ,not beacuse I want to be  a spoilsport of new and innovative ideas but just being a little realistic this type of teaching and lecturing might need a couple of years to be implemented in our schools. That's for no reason the link was under the tittle 'edutopia'. I interpreted as an idealistic educational setting .  However, there's hope things take a postive turn in our educational system . My thoughts on the flipped classroom I attended last week : I guess that was a quite fantastic way to deal with the idea of flipped classrooms. Our connditions weren't the best ever expected but some of us managed to cope with it  some  in their phones,some in their PC connecting here and there  and others including me went to a internet center. We gretted each other , then we were asked to  watch a video ...

ABCD OBJECTIVES

Book: World wonders 2. Topic: Unit 5, lesson 1 ‘Cortuga Adventure’, ‘Present perfect’ Students’ English level:   A2 Students’ age:   12-15. ABCD objectives : 1.Students read the dialogue in roles without pronunciation mistakes. 2.Students make up 5 sentences of their own using vocabulary words in exercise 1. 3. Students put into practice the knowledge of since,for, just,already by completing the exercise 1 for 3 minutes. 4.Students discuss about the uses of present perfect tense in meaningful arguments. 5. Students compare present perfect tense with ‘kohen e kryer’in Albanian in an argumentative essay.
Thinking in terms of constructivism’s principles when practicing speaking English classes of making, accepting and declining invitations. I am currently teaching English in a course center and one of the many lessons I had to teach was ‘how to make, accept and decline invitations in formal and informal contexts’. Recalling the organization of that class I remember that students felt very enthusiastic and left the class with a positive feedback. A few classes later, I’ve prepared some situations where students were asked to practice what they’ve learned. The results weren’t as satisfactory as I expected. I kept on thinking what went wrong that students couldn’t succeed as I was hoping them to. I’ve consulted the other English teacher, my colleague there, as human resources are best immediate consulters and she answered that sometimes students show great enthusiasm about a topic but might not work further on it as they feel they already have absorbed that new information. This was a ...