Week 5

This week started with reading an extremely interesting article by Susan Gaer on PBL. Although the article was written in far 1998 it is still actual these days. May be we, as teachers, underestimate PBL. I liked that it motivates students and gives them opportunity to learn the language for a purpose. Also the article states that PBL contributes to collaborative work. My question is- what about the passive students? How can a teacher be sure that every student participated in the process of developing a project? I suppose I will be able to answer this question upon implementing at least one project into my course. Anyway, I will be glad to read my web mates opinion on these questions.

Creating my own rubric was exciting and at the same time quite challenging task for me, since I used to applying the readymade rubrics for assessment. RubiStar is a great tool which I’m definitely going to use and recommend my colleagues for creating rubrics. I was impressed to find there any kinds of rubrics. Moreover one can change the separate parts or use the suggested versions of the rubrics.

As for the project task for this week, I think Web Quest might be an efficient tool for improving my students’ listening comprehension skills in case if I choose appropriate and interesting for my students tasks.