This week has brought many challenging
ideas including PBL, webquests, and rubrics. Discussion on PBL caused me to
think why our teachers didn’t use PBL and evaluate us through rubrics when we
were students. Maybe it’s due to the fact that there were no such opportunities
and the Internet wasn’t as popular as it is now. I wish we had studied our
subjects that way. It’s an exciting experience for both a teacher and students.
PBL helps to reveal students’ knowledge and skills that they themselves are
unaware of. Webquests as a kind of PBL can serve as a good tool here. I can characterize
them as detailed lesson plans in creation and progress of which students play
a great role. As to rubrics, they motivate students to move towards success
knowing their goals.
Sticking only to textbooks can be boring to
students and teachers as well. So trying PBL can be a way out from such an
unpleasant situation. As PBL is new to my students, it will require much effort
on my part. However, it will give me a great pleasure to see my students highly
motivated and intrigued by the lesson. In my opinion there’s no better reward
for the teacher than students’ mastering a language on a high level.
Hi Zarifa,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you that it is a real reward to see our student grow as independent learners.
I wish you a great success in the coming weeks.
Rachid Afa
Agadir
Morocco
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Uzbekistan? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Uzbekistan in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39 Bajo C
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez