Week 6:
INTERACTIVITY
Old word… New meaning..!
What a wonderful week this has been! Many interesting things have I learned during this past week! The readings have been countless and so have been the tips I have acquired to improve my classroom activities!
This word has been sounding so much in my head, and its meaning has been the center of my attention since the very beginning of this great “webskills” experience! Did I know the word? Yes – I must say! Did I know its meaning and how extensive and helpful it could be? No – I must admit! My students and I have had such a great experience during this past week, and it has been definitely because of the big deal of information that I have received in my course so far… and my students have totally noticed it!
I have had a great experience in my working place, it has been definitely a great opportunity for me to grow as a person and a professional, in here I have had the chance to meet and receive help form many very professional, creative and intelligent people working in the educational field. I had to say all this because now that I am doing this course, I feel that I am being able to put in practice and pass very interesting knowledge to others – co-workers, students and the people involved in my teaching process.
“Begin to Implement the Change”… that’s what I was said to do this week, and it has been definitely that a beginning of a very productive and enriching change! I have taken my lessons and classes to another higher and very nice level. I feel that my classes are now a lot more student-centered, and that is as positive as creative the mind of any of my students can be! They have been working with a different attitude, having in mind the fun English activities, the online homework of teacher Henry, the nice and up-to-date English class, or even the topic they want to rise in one of the English classes that are now a lot more focused in their own performance than in any other thing!
I started using these PowerPoint activities that were the center of discussions during this whole past week, and I saw the faces of very interested students that at the end of the class wanted more and more and more! For example, after being so serious at the beginning of a class when we were discussing Mark Twain, we turned everything to its fun and didactic side! I used this interactive PPT show with my students, it was created to make them have fun with the knowledge they acquired in class and also for them to be evaluated on that same knowledge. Now, after that activity, whenever I tell them about a reading or anything that is going to end up with a similar activity, they want to extensively learn about it because they know they will end up using that knowledge in a very interesting and entertaining way.
By the way things are going on up to now, I can see that the path towards the end of the Webskills course is already tailored, and the specifications for it are definitely the results I am having in the classroom with my students.
To end up my reflections on this week, I would like to tell my course-mates that it has been such a great experience to keep track of all the wonderful work they have been doing and be active audience of all the great performance they have had in terms of the very useful ideas they have come up with.
Some of the ideas that I have had myself have also come from some very nice readings I have done, for example:
I hope you, classmates, have the chance to check all this (if you, by any chance, haven’t done it yet!) and give me some feedback, which is definitely going to be much appreciated!
See you in class!
Teacher Henry from Venezuela!
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