So, it is the middle of the course. Week 5 was very interesting and fruitful. Time and again I say to myself how lucky I am to be a participant of this very course!!!
The problems raised in this week discussions are really engaging. I shared my experience on applying self and peer assessment in my lessons and it was very instructive to know Celeste’s and my classmate’s thoughts on these issues. What I have understood from this discussion that I have to improve my knowledge on systems of education in different countries. As while discussing sometimes it seemed to me that though we used English, we were speaking a different language. Frankly speaking, I could not understand why my classmates (Sandra and Georgia) raised the problem of impossibility to use projects in some curricula. Then I saw the same problem raised by Han Nah in his post about education in Korea. Only after that I have realized how important it is to be aware of differences between cultures and countries. What is accepted in one country, maybe not in another.
One more thing that was of great benefit for me and my colleagues is rubrics. The site http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ is really something! I have made up l rubrics for essays, literary text comprehension and oral presentation. We have already discussed them with my colleagues and decided to use them in our course. That is really great!!!
WebQuest… I have some ideas how to implement it into my course, I am working on it but I need to think over the sites to suggest.
