students portfolio quick review - week 10

Student: Mohammad

Teacher: Hakim

Level: A1

Semester: 1

Year: 2019 - 2020

Student portfolio quick review - week 10

Student: Hashim

Teacher: Juinad 

Level: A zero

Semester: 1

Year: 2019 - 2020

students portfolio check list

An organized , goal-driven documentation of student's effort, learning growth and achieved competence.

student's portfolio quick review - week 10

student portfolio:
An organized , goal-driven documentation of student's effort, learning growth and achieved competence.

Student: Omar

Teacher: Musa

Level: A1

Semester:1
Year 2019-2020

Student's portfolio quick review - for week 10

Student: Fasial
Level : A1
teacher: Hussain
Subject: reading and writing
Semester :1
week : 10
2019-2020

Quick students portfolio review - week 10

Student: Ibrahim
teacher: Omar
Subject: reading and writing
Semester :1
week : 10
2019-2020


Students are organizing their learning through using the portfolio as a learning tool. Here is a quick look at a student's portfolio from week 10. 

We need to see students mind maps and study cards in the portfolio. At the end of each chapter students needs to prepare a mind- map and study cards for the new vocabulary in that chapter.

Student: Saud
teacher: Ali
Subject: reading and writing
Semester :1
week : 10

2019-2020

Fundamental Educational Principles

Fundamental Educational Principles

Focus is on learning rather than teaching

1- Teachers help students discover how language works and develop inner criteria for correctness.

2- Teacher “talk” is kept to minimum.

3- Independent study is targeted towards individual needs.

4- Students learn through ‘doing ‘(experiential learning).

5- Success is measured by what students can “do" communicatively rather than by what they can do cognitively.

6- A teacher covering specified materials (textbooks or otherwise) does not constitute learning.

7- Learning /skill development requires practice and awareness outside as well as inside the classroom.

Students are best served through humanistic, holistic, approaches

1- A caring relationship between student and teacher is established by treating student as a “whole” person.

2- Language is most effectively learned as a “whole” system and not a collection of isolated skills.

3- Linguistic and thinking skills are inter-related and inter-dependent.

4- Lessons integrate linguistic and professional skills and objectives.

5- Lessons should be structured as much as possible to draw on student knowledge, experience, ideas, and interests.

6- Teachers help students develop ways to facilitate their own learning and to improve weaker skills.

Students Portfolios

In our Intensive English language program students are required to prepare and organize their learning portfolio. The portfolio reflects students learning process day by day and week by week. Every paper in the portfolio is looked at as a learning document.

There are two types of students portfolios ( process portfolios and product portfolios ). In our program we focus on process portfolios. This means we focus on the process of learning. Product portfolios are useful when students are preparing for job interviews, which require more time and effort in preparing to look professional. The objective is to help them land a job.

On the other hand process portfolios are tools for students to organize their learning and to think and reflect on their learning. Education without reflection is a waste of time. The Textbooks alone are not enough.

In this program we focus on the process of learning and how students are learning and progressing. We help students pick up new habits of studying and thinking. Language is not just grammar and translation. The portfolio helps students  document and organize  and reflect on their learning.

  Every document in the portfolio should include the following:

1-  the date and week
2- the name of the student
3-  the name of teacher
4- the subject ( reading & writing or Speaking and Listening )
5- The name of the portfolio item ( project - homework - mind-map - quiz - class activity.... )



related links form the blog:

- A sample of students writing portfolio Mr. Eyaz class Beginner Level Semester 1 - 2014
- Reflecting on the process of learning by examining students portfolios