First Week of the School
Schools started. I have new classes and I have classes that I know from last year. We started working hard. We, as the English Department of our school, prepared lessons to motivate our students.
With my year 12 students, who will graduate and take the university exam, we read ‘Go and Open the Door’, a poem written by Miroslav Holub. It is a great poem to talk about opportunities, chances, memories, etc and my students wrote their own poems. You can view their poems on their class blogs.
With my year 11 students, we talked about overcoming obstacles, being decisive, being ambitious, the place of disabled people in the society, paralympic games. I used Sean Banville’s lesson on Oscar Pistorius. I told my students to create posters and some suggested preparing glogs. You can view their glogs on our class blog as well.
If you can visit our class blogs and leave a comment for them, they may feel more motivated.
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Hello again!
Your blog is really so interesting and I feel that even though I am going to be teaching elementary I still feel that there is so much to learn from your teaching techniques!
I love the way you showed that you do different teaching styles dependent on the grade level in question. I feel like I can apply this to taking each students learning style into account and changing my technique to work on it.
Thank you for posting such great advice!
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Hello, again! I visited your students’ blog and I was really impressed. We are trying to set up our own student blog, so it was great to see how that works. They have done such a good job with their poems and their presentation of their writing. My students are much younger, but I am definitely going to show them your students’ blog. They will be inspired at the least.
christina
Thanks,
I would also like to read their blog when it is ready and leave a comment to encourage them. I also have younger learners, maybe we can ask them to leave comments for each other. Let’s keep in touch
Eva
I love how you incorporate contemporary media in your classes, I’ll be trying it out for sure when I start teaching for real. 🙂 Thank you for your ideas!
I love this, Eva, and have missed keeping up with your work! One of our ESL writers at Wandering Educators shared her first days of ESL teaching – thought you might enjoy it: http://wanderingeducators.edublogs.org/2012/12/11/teaching-english-in-thailand/