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Week 3

Hi, 

Thank you for all the work that you have done so far and I hope that you will keep up with all the assignments of this course. 

During this week we learned about Multiple Intelligences and 21st skills and how they can be applied to a language learning context. 

I would also like you to watch the two videos about Cooperative learning and we can discuss them together next Monday during the lecture. 

Part One - Cooperative Learning

Part two - Cooperative Learning

Now let us discuss about the assignment of Week - 3, the writing of the objectives. You know that completing a task successfully needs careful planning. Teaching, particularly, requires a lot of planning and it is very time consuming (Welcome to the real world of teachers! :-), so we need to design our objectives before we start with the planning and designing of the lesson. Who are my students, what are their abilities and knowledge, what I would like them to learn, and how am I going to measure their learning process. One way of writing objectives is by using the ABCD (Audience, Behaviour, Condition and Degree) model. ABCD model 

Perhaps you might have heard about them before but now you are going to write your own objectives for a classroom that you will teach in the future. You will need to write three different objectives for three different types of activities/exercises that your are going to create.

Master students of English language (Audience) after reading about ABCD objectives (Condition) should be able to write (Behaviour) three objectives of their own (Degree).

Now comes the tricky part and the one that you are going to find more challenging: creating your own exercises or your own tests. There are a lot of ready made worksheets available on the internet by they do not alway reflect the content of your teaching, so sometimes there is a need for you to generate your own exercises. One exercise generator is the Hot Potatoes, where you can create a gap filling exercise, a crossword, an online multiple choice etc. There is a tutorial available on the homepage of Hot Potatoes.
Your ABCD objectives will be written for the exercises that your will have to generate yourself. 
The links for the Dropbox are on the Class website under the page with the same name. I am also attaching them here.

Group A Dropbox

Group B Dropbox

And the very last thing for this week is the Dropbox. It plays the same function as Google Drive, it is just another way of sharing your information online and sharing it with others. When you create your exercises you can import them on a document and together with the exercise, you write the objective and in the end you share it with me on the Dropbox. 

Your Blog post this week could be related to all the topics that are mentioned in this post. 

Best, 
T :)

Comments

  1. Klesta MingajApril 23, 2021 at 4:38 AM

    Hello professor, thank you for clarifying, the only thing that I still don't get is the part of the blog post this week, is it going to be something as a general overview regarding the aforementioned topics or something else because the hot patato exercises cannot be uploaded in the blog area. Would you be so kind as to address once again please? Thank you.

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    1. Daniela HasaApril 26, 2021 at 2:54 AM

      Klesta my last sentence in the Blog is that the posting for this week could be for any of the topics mentioned in my post. Multiple Intelligences, 21st Century Skills, ABCD Model, Exercise Generators and you can relate them all to teaching.

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