Search engine for beginner students

Twurdy Search - Search for Readable Results

Check it out. It is useful for students at beginner levels

Timeline project Last Semester - teacher Huthiafa

Students covered topics like driving, education, homes, traveling in the past, present and future. Students get to practice the different tenses.

Source: Uploaded by user via Samir on Pinterest

Education - Faisal a sample of students work beginner level in English

Hussain set up the computer and the printer and the copier in the room

A workshop in progress

We wish we could have something like that one day

Provider Resource Room from ELC Big Bend on Vimeo.

ACTA: Colleges Failing to Teach Students the Basics | Education News

ACTA: Colleges Failing to Teach Students the Basics | Education News

What Does Critical Thinking Mean in Education ?

What Does Critical Thinking Mean in Education ?

Portfolio Evaluations

Hi Folks,

In preparation for the upcoming portfolio evaluations, here's the forms we'll be using. Take a look and let Mr. Samir or me know if you have any questions.

Also, please make sure to stop by the Curriculum Development Room in C102. It's really taking shape!

Zeta Reading/Writing
Zeta Communications
Eta Reading/Writing
Eta Communications
Theta Reading/Writing
Theta Communications

Creating flashcards and organizing resources

Today we started creating flashcards. Saleh , Hussain and I worked for an hour . We improved the lighting in the room. We have a long way to go, but what is important is taking the first steps towards reaching our objectives. We do not have a big budget, but we are trying to use all the resoures we got.

Motivation and Curriculum

      While reading a book on motivation in the classroom, this question keeps popping in my head.

What is the relation between motivation and curriculum?

I once read that nine thirds of education are motivation. Author Ian Gilbert, the managing director of Independent Thinking , a company he set to enrich the lives of young people by changing the way they think who worked with thousands of students,teachers,parents and governors both in the UK and abroad, believes we are approaching motivation from the wrong angle.










     There is push motivation and there is bull motivation, and both will not get the job done. We should be asking how do we get students to motivate themselves. Once we learn how to do that then we will have self-motivated students. He believes that there are no magic wands, and it will take effort, and that we even have to change the way we are doing thinks in class, and that we should not expect them to be  motivated by default . The book is about 180 pages. It has seven chapters.
They are:
1- Motivated for what?
2-Go with the flow
3- Mission control
4- Get real
5- Get personal
6- Reptiles in the classroom
7- Motivation is a four-letter word

Quotes and ideas to start with I came across in the book .

- We know that teaching does not produce learning.
- If you are not learning , I am just talking.
- To teach (someone ) a lesson : to cause (somenone ) to suffer the unpleasent consequences of some behaviour or action. Oxford English dictionary
- Everything has been said already but no-one listens one must always strat again. Andre Gide
- " Do not train boys to learn by force and harshness but lead them by what arouses them so that you may better understand the bent of their minds.".
- Students setting thier goals for the course motivates
- curriculum and students happiness are inter-connected
- the more we laugh , the longer we live.
- mission control: let the the students feel they have a mission and that they are in control.

SmallWorld: Ultimate Guide to Creative Writing Resources for Students

SmallWorld: Ultimate Guide to Creative Writing Resources for Students

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Teaching English online. | Skype in the classroom

 Teaching English online. | Skype in the classroom

 

 

Can we connect via Skype with another classroom? What is the purpose? Why do it? How we can arrange it? Who is doing it? these and other questions we can find answers to in this new Skype project.

Curriculum Development workshop

Today Mr Joseph Phillips  and ,Saleh ,Hussain and I met to discuss the things we need to do to prepare room C102 to become a workshop for teachers to help develop and create  content and materials for the curricculum.

The meeting was very productive. We all agreed the we needed to take the first important steps to launch the idea. We do not have a big budget for this project, That should not stop us. We will work with what we have.

The objective of the workshop:

1- Find a room where teachers can be creative and supply them with the tools needed.
2- Teachers create visual aids that can be used and maintained
3- Share good ideas by teachers and document them
4- Monitor the curriculum as it is being implemented
5- Monitor and document the development of students portfolios
6- Building a team of teachers who collaborate and share thier knowledge and expertise to create meaningful lessons.