Monday, November 10, 2014

Week 5: Project-based learning, WebQuests, and rubrics

We are in hope of getting familiar to new sources of ideas and tools to use for helping us to teach more effectively because this week have learned 3 more things:

  1. - Project-based learning (PBL), "students work in groups to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based and often interdisciplinary" (Sheppard and Stoller, 1995). This lesson can make us know the ten steps of PBL by Sheppard and Stoller(1995). 


  • Step 1: Students and instructor agree on the theme for the project.
  • Step 2: Students and instructor determine the final outcome of the project.
  • Step 3: Students and instructor structure the project.
  • Step 4: Instructor prepares students for the demands of information gathering.
  • Step 5: Students gather information.
  • Step 6: Instructor prepares students to compile and analyze data.
  • Step 7: Students compile and analyze information
  • Step 8: Instructor prepares students for the language demands of the final activity.
  • Step 9: Students present the final product.
  • Step 10: Students evaluate the project.

      We could know the seven traits of every good project needs by  John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller ,2010,http://www.ascd.org/cache/publications/educational_leadership/sept10/vol68/num01/Seven_Essentials_for_Project-Based_Learning.aspx. We have  also learned Purposeful Language Assessment about types of assessments, testing formats, and testing procedures from John M.Norris, 2000,http://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/50_3_10_norris.pdf. Moreover, we have learnt about the Twenty Common Testing Mistakes for EFL Teachers to Avoid by Grant Henning, 1982, http://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/50_3_8_henning.pdf.

  2. WebQuests, we have learnt that making a WebQuet is really helpful for teacher and students to help their teaching and learning go smoothly. We can make a WebQuest by  Zunal.com or we can go to http://www.webquest.org/ to learn more about making it.
 
3. Rubrics, we have learnt how to design our own rubrics for our own class through website: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php. Here we don't need to spend much time on it to design any kinds of rubrics we want.


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