Rubric for sel / peer evaluation

The rubric for self / peer evaluation can be seen in this link. if you are not able to access it mail me i will send the same rubric via mail to all students. But check out this link first:  https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/shaping2paths/week2/phase1_lesson_plan_rubric.pdf

Webquests

to know more about webquests and to help you write an article about it, check the following:

 http://webquest.sdsu.edu/about_webquests.html
http://www.thematzats.com/webquests/page1.html

Try this webquest for you to get an idea about webquest:
http://www.uni.edu/schneidj/webquests/WWIIChildren/wb25/Intro_.html

to write your own folktale
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/webquest1/FolkTaleWriter.html

Post your first draft of lessonplans for peer evaluation

Hi students

After self evaluation, you can post your lesson plans for peer evaluation in this post in the comments section. Each one of you should comment on two of your peers' lesson plan in the same comment section. pls mention the name of the person whose lesson plan you are evaluating. this will help them carry over the revisions. Pls use the rubric for self as well as peer evaluation.

Lesson Plan Web Quest!!!

Designing a lesson plan

Introduction

You are a teacher working in a school / college.  You are teaching English to high school / college students.  You are very passionate about your job. You love experimenting with new techniques and technology in classroom teaching.

Task

Design a lesson plan to teach either one of these items: poem / a scene from a play/ short story/ prose / grammar / letter writing / any other language skill. Your lesson should make use of technology in classroom teaching. The lesson should require the technological component and should not be used as only an add-on for entertainment.

Process

1.    Read the following article about lesson plan to get a clear picture about the importance of lesson plan. Your lesson plan should be practically doable and should not exist only on paper.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17H0IYY0ICX4PUtdpRGJXal_jemRhf2PIqpVK2U9TdcU/edit?pli=1

http://teachandlearnwithgeorgia.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/the-importance-of-lesson-planning/

http://www.princeton.edu/~pia/TEFL.pdf

2.    Use the template given in the class blog for your lesson plan.

http://computeraidedlanguagelearning.blogspot.in/2014/10/lesson-plan-assignment.html

3.    Check this article to write your lesson objectives based on bloom’s taxonomy

http://www.okbu.edu/academics/natsci/ed/398/objectives.htm

http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/lessonplanning/lp_09.html - helps you in choosing the right vocabulary

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/j/jelinekd/EDTE%20116/116%2009-10/Writing%20learning%20objectives.pdf – this article gives input about learning objectives

4.    Read these webpage to get an idea about the components of a lesson plan

http://www.el-concilio.com/education/lessonComponents.htm

http://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/lesson-planning-components-of-a-lesson-plan/#.VD4COVcxiPg

5.    To get an idea about lesson plans, check out these samples

http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/writing/lesson-plans/

http://esl.about.com/od/grammarlessons/tp/debates.htm

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/sample-lesson-plan-new-teachers

Evaluation

(1)  Self Evaluation:

After you complete your lesson plan, using the rubric posted in the class blog do a self – evaluation of your lesson plan. Revise it based on your self evaluation.

          

http://computeraidedlanguagelearning.blogspot.in/2014/10/self-evaluation-peer-evaluation-rubric.html

After completing your lesson plan, post it in the respective section in the blog.

(2)  Peer Evaluation

Check two of your classmates’ lesson plans and give feedback in the comments section based on the evaluation rubric.

http://computeraidedlanguagelearning.blogspot.in/2014/10/self-evaluation-peer-evaluation-rubric.html

Conclusion

Based on the feedback given by your friends, revise your lesson plan and finally submit the hard copy to the teacher.

Along with the lesson plan, write a short essay on webquests based on the following articles and submit it for your assessment / assignment. 

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/webquests/index_sub3.html

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/webquests/

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech011.shtml

Lesson Plan Assignment

Hi Students

i am uploading the lessonplan template and lesson plan sample today. will upload the webquest for this assignment tomorrow.

Welcome Students!

Hi
Welcome to the first post of our class blog! you need to comment for each post fulfilling the task given to you.

Kindly read the following article on Teachers' barriers to the use of CALL, and write a short summary about the article.

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Lee-CALLbarriers.html

Critique the following article on CALL in a short paragraph

http://home.iitk.ac.in/~trc/call.pdf

Explore the following websites on software and programs used in CALL. Talk about one which impressed you the most and give reasons for your preference.

http://www.rong-chang.com/call.htm


Complete these activities before next tuesday (23rd sep 2014)