Hi, mentors and colleagues
This week I visited http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/lesson_plan.html and at http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/lptemplate_08.pdf and learned how I could use technology-enhanced plan for better planning my reading and writing lessons. In fact, I learned new things about planning the instruction. Among the new things, I can mention the following elements that I have never thought of or used in planning a lesson: writing my name as the author of the lesson, specifying the number of meetings or hours needed for the lesson, giving a short description of the lesson, writing the class layout and the grouping plan for the lesson, setting performance indicators, using technology in class as a resource or medium, closing the lesson, giving supplemental activities for the lesson, making adaptations for special learners, and writing the assessment methods for the lesson.
I think that taking into account these aspects in planning lessons will make a change regarding teaching and learning, specifically in classrooms which have computers and Internet access. The non-equipped classroom teacher could also adapt the lesson to meet his students’ needs.
In addition, I learned through browsing recommended skill-building sites how to improve teaching and learning reading/vocabulary and writing. To this effect, sharing relevant websites with students could help them build their autonomy while learning English in an interesting way. Some of the websites include http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl.section/1/ and http://www.learningandteaching.dal/taguide/WritingasaToolforLearning.html for writing and http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/, http://spot.pcc.edu/map/prev/, and http://www.englishclub.com/esl-quizzes/vocabulary-quizzes.htmlfor reading, and vocabulary.
Teachers should help students to create their own so they can write to one another and to the teacher through blogs to develop their writing, reading and vocabulary skills.
Wishes,
Bruno
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Dear Bruno,
ReplyDeleteYou suggest a lot of sites. I haven't visited them yet, I would like to put them all on my computer. I bookmarked some of them. I also used:
http://edtech.tennesee.edu~bobbannon/lesson planhtlm
http://itelslj.org/Tecniques/Krajka-WritingUsing Net
Wonderful! This week I realized that the the internet is a public place accessible for everybody.We can share the links with our students if they have access to computers. You'd better get them initiated early. If they are not today, they will someday. Think of the multiple benefits they can get from them. The sooner, the better.
Thanks for the remarks on Ahmed's blog posting.I didn't pay much attention to WAC before your remarks. Now I decided to visit this site. I learn a lot from you.
Sincerely yours
Roland
Dear Bruno,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the lesson plan proposed by the University of Tennessee has many new things to take into account for our lesson plans. I like the idea of writing a description of the lesson annd writing the assessment methods for the lesson. I also like that you need to have a plan B in case the technoplogy does not work the way you expect.
Thank you for the links you give in your post. I visited some of them and found them very useful for my classes. I especially like the Multicultural Academic Program at http://spot.pcc.edu/map/prev/.
Cristian
Drear Bruno !
ReplyDeleteWhen we look at the aspects we have to take into account for the lesson plan , we realized that , as teachers , we are doing a wonderful job that requires a lot of commitment and devotion ! Technology is giving us more opporunities to perfect our noble task !
Farah