Week 7 Reflection

Dear fellow teachers,
time has been flying and I think everyone just cannot believe we are already finishing our week 7 of the course. This week as well, we have learned new things. What caught my attention is definitely Padlet, which is very new to me. Having posted on it, it reminded me of flashcards we have and just stick them to the board for students to read. I think it is definitely a great tool for the teaching of English, a communication tool with our students.
Besides, the topic of learner autonomy was interesting to know for the first time or know more, and I think we all  agree that the ultimate aim of our teaching English is for our students to be able to use the language on their own. So why not starting to teach them to fish from today, rather than giving them fish? This is was a productive one as well.
Jean-Baptiste
Burkina Faso.

Week 6 Post

Hi,
for me the course is advancing and getting more and more interesting but I am really lacking time these days so I am just doing my best to complete the tasks. I know it is also the same for other people. But this week, I learned more about how to handle large classes using technology and this will help us make the English class for interesting for the students. Moreover, creating the interactive PowerPoint was a little hard as I did not know really what to propose and plan. This is basically what I studied in literature.
Jean-Baptiste
Burkina Faso

Week 5 Reflective journal

Another week, another adventure. Each week we learn new things that are really interesting for our job. In the readings, I have learned that there are techniques that we can use, making our students autonomous learners and at the same time build confidence in them. If we are teaching, we want our students to be able to use the language some day, by themselves. So this week has given me more tools to help reach my objectives. In addition, grading, with rubrics. Sometimes the students do not know how to do to get good grades as they do not know how we grade. But this rubrics, they know what is expected from them, making the task easier and they can have good grades. The third thing learned this week is related to our developing a problem solving technology in teaching. Indeed I think the ideas of everyone are really great and worth incorporating where possible. Therefore, this week was productive as the previous ones.
Jean-Baptiste
Burkina Faso

Week 4 Reflective journal

Another week in the learning of new ways of teaching using technology. This weeks, I have come to know a good website that can be used by students to learn on their own. sometimes, some students are afraid of making mistake with their peers seeing so this is a good tool for such students to stay in the comfort of their room or just by themselves and complete exercises. In the readings as well, I have come to learn many things. I would like to speak about the lesson plan we made this week. It may look easy but actually we always learn whenever we make a lesson plan. I learned that using simple technology like a computer and a projector, we can solve many of the problems we have in teaching, and at the same time correct one of our mistakes in teaching: not using visual aids. This week was wonderful then like the previous ones, and I can feel the same for those to come.
Jean-Baptiste
Burkina Faso