Mariah Al Ansari's Reflections

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Week5: Still Correct Papers!!!

Hello everybody,

What is the acurrate tool you use to assess your students' performance?
Do they have to asnwer questions to pass the course or graduate?
After reading the article about Alternative Assessment I found that we can invoke real world applications to provide self assessment opportunities for students.

Students can show their real personality and experience through their performance. Teachers must judge the students' performance in different ways and don't believe in the answers on papers. Everybody can memorise and write down what he/ she studied but it is difficult to apply what you studied in the real performance.

I read about the experience of Telok Kurau Primary School in Singapore on using Alternative Assessment in assessing Math Test and Science Test and found it a remarkable experience that must be applied in our schools.
The website of the school is : http://www.telokkuraupri.moe.edu.sg
follow the followings: (School programmes, Alternative Assessment Mode)

Best,
Mariah

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Week 4 : Reflection

Hello Teachers,

I felt too happy doing the tasks because they were related to students and our efforts to be better teachers. What a great and rich week I had. First I read one of the loveliest article about how to use web sites as teaching aids and in teaching writing . It is a very useful article. I hope I find more articles about the same issue and in the proper and useful way of teaching other skills. Moreover, I had a great opportunity to search for useful web sites to enhance my lesson.

The second great opportunity I had during this week was writing a lesson plan with technology after reading a great piece of writing from the University of Tennessee on our course website. I found this task simple and refreshing because it's writing a lesson plan and this what we still do.

Finally, I identify a problem, concern and issue that could be addressed with the incorporation of a NEW technology. Frankly, the last task helped me have clear focus on what my students suffer of so I would do my best to help them solve it by applying the different strategies we studied so far.

I enjoyed this week a lot and hope you enjoyed it too.

Mariah

Saturday, 23 April 2011

Week3- Reflection

Hello all,

This week is a little bit harder than before because of the different tasks we had to finish in such a short time as we have. Even though, I loved the experience I had this week more than the ones I had in the previous two weeks.

We started our week with great and delicious live by creating our delicious accounts. Wow! what a great link to have. I have never thought that I can keep my precious websites save and organised as I have them now in my delicious account. It's really declicious and you don't know how to stop adding your bookmarks! Wow!

The second lovely task I did was reading one of the articles, were published on WebSkills website, about CALL for listening , speaking and pronunciation. Honestly, I couldn't hold myself of reading all the articles to get the experience of those who obtained the experience of others and summarizes in an interesting articles. In addition, To absorb the use of CALL in teaching we were asked have a look at the lesson attached to the article. I chose reading " New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation" written by Maria Grazia Buzá. I found it too helpful in presenting some of the useful tools and approaches in teaching Pronunciation. The link for Pronunciation Tips from the BBCl were too helpful in my classes (Remedial classes).

Finally, our teacher Donna gave us another gift of knowledge by presenting some of the Final projects were done by the teachers who enrolled this course last year. Frankly, I found it too interesting to examine and evaluate our plan for the final project based on the previous projects. I read the one about developing the writing skills and found it helpful for my final project.

Wish everyone got benefit and look forward for week 4 as I do,

Love ,

Mariah

Friday, 15 April 2011

My Reflection on Week 2

Dear all,
During this week Ifelt to happy to revise writing objectives and searching the net for some of the useful websites for our project and to help our students improving their language and experiencing their words through the web.

Wish get more experience during the second half of the week,
MaRiAh