Friday, November 8, 2013

Week 5. PBL, WebQuest, Alternative Assessment and Rubrics.

This week I have found out the benefits of Project Based Learning. It helps us motivate our students and integrate their language skills in a more natural way. It promotes group work and studying individually as well. Besides, when they collaborate, teach each other, that also enforces their general knowledge and language abilities.

I have started the projet work with my students. They are suposed to choose one of the stories or poems from the list and start working. It can be the biography of the author, his/her outlook, bridging text and context and many other activities, even imagine the same characters ten years later. The projects are supposed to content 750 words for 4-pointers and 1000 words for 5-pointers. The more sourses ids explore, the better they do the project. Since they will have to take an oral exam a month before the written one, I have created such rubrics. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2377993

The idea of WebQuest was something new for me and it is one of the best ways to write projects. It is built to do the work step by step which guides very well both teachers and kids and provides a lot of rubrics and checklists. At the beginning it was a bit difficult but I understood it finally. I have created a lesson plan both on the WIKI https://sites.google.com/site/juliaslessons/julia-s-lessons  and on the Questgarden http://questgarden.com/164/23/8/131108113141/.

The alternative assessment is a great thing because it focuses on students' strengths and weaknesses. Therefore they can realize what they are good at and which skills need to be improved. Creating rubrics with the help of http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ saves teacher's time and efforts and creates rubrics for him. And I used to spend too much energy to do them myself!
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2 comments:

  1. CL3TSNovember 8, 2013 at 9:04 PM

    Hi Julia,
    A great job you did this week. You are successful in doing your assignments and tasks completely. I know from your explanation on your blog, you explained about Project Based Learning, WebQuest, Alternative Assessments and Rubrics conceptually and practically. I always follow your academic road explanation. It is great. Good job and Good luck for finishing your duty this week. See you on the next week discussion on our blog. I always remember your motto "Don't Give Up" that always motivates to me to run fast forever. Thanks.
    Best,
    Rudi Hartono

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  2. Julia KoifmanNovember 10, 2013 at 1:19 PM

    Thank you, Rudy. I have also learned something from your posts both in the Nicenet and This Blog. The course we are doing is very challenging but it is interesting, isn't it? I hope step by step we will succeed in all the new sites and searching engines and by the end of this course we will ba aware of what we have never heard about.

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