MY WEEK 9
Busy week, as usual! And a very important one. I'm happy I could finish writing my project report at last. I hope it's OK, I did my best.
This week I read a lot about learning styles. I was really interested in the article about learning intelligences. Here in Belarus we call them ways of perception. Learning styles and technology is a really interesting topic. Students learn in
many ways, like seeing, hearing, and experiencing things first hand. Students
study better if they change study habits to fit their own personal learning
styles or it's better to say that the teacher changes his teaching habits in
order to cater to a range of learning styles in the classroom.I think the teacher should be ready to incorporate different styles because
students are different and the teacher has to be flexible. And of course
technology can be very helpful for this.
This online course we are finishing will change the way I teach. I'll try to use all new tools and ideas i learned during this course. I can't imaging my work at school without technology now. I think this online course pushed us to change our teaching or at least to develop it. I'm planning to share all new I learned during this course with colleagues in my school and my town. I do believe this course was very helpful.
"This online course we are finishing will change the way I teach.
ReplyDeleteI'll try to use all new tools and ideas i learned during this course.
I think this online course pushed us to change our teaching or at least to develop it.
I'm planning to share all new I learned during this course with colleagues in my school and my town.
I do believe this course was very helpful."
If this was published on Facebook I would definitely press the LIKE button for each of these statements. These are exactly my thoughts and I believe the thoughts of each course participant.
Marija
Hi Olga and Marija,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your ideas that from this online course we get so many useful ideas, tools, skills and links that we can develop and use in our teaching. However, realizing the ideas into reality is sometimes difficult. We need to keep spirit and motivation and spend our time, energy, and effort to realize them. I am not trying to demotivate you but to motivate all of us to make a change in our teaching to be better, inspiring, motivating and improving the students' learning by applying what we get from this online course suitable with our condition.
Good luck to both of you
Hermanto
Hi Olga!
ReplyDeleteIts great to know that in your place you call learning styles as ways of perception. I think both the names clearly state the essence of the concept which the way one learns.
You are right this has been a great week and I am also very positive and excited to kind of change the way i have been teaching as yet.
I completely agree with your idea about knowing how a learner learns in order to motivate him in the right direction and cause all learning possible.
Teachers i think are Change-Initiators if they so will to and I think this is our chance to begin one.
Cherry
Hi Olga!
ReplyDeleteThis course has changed my teaching style as well. I acquired a lot from the course as well as from my classmates. Unfortunately I haven't shared much because I had nothing to share as I practically didn't use web resources in my lessons. Mostly I absorbed everything and tried to bookmark all interesting links. In summer I will sort everything and for sure next academic year I will try to incorporate technology into my lessons. I also plan to organize a couple of meetings with my colleagues to share my experience of distance learning with the US university and employing Web resources for teaching and learning English.
Wish you all success.
Victoria