Picture Dictionary Week 4 (Weather) - Los Angeles

       This is one of our student's picture dictionaries from this week. I asked them all to bring pictures to represent the ten words related to weather. We started the assignment in class and they became more familiar with the vocabulary from the lessons during the week. Almost all of the students were able finish this assignment at home by printing the appropriate pictures. I think this student did a pretty good job finding accurate pictures and printing them in color.

Week 12 meeting - term 2

We had a short week last week, because of the rain and the weather conditions.We were  back to school on Thursday. 

Thanks for the constructive discussion we had last Thursday!  I would like to thank Oybek for sharing the summary with us.

Here is the brief summary of what we covered:

- Bilal shared with us how informing students about weekly learning objectives can be beneficial for their learning and motivation. He showed us a sample portfolio from one of his groups where students on a weekly basis add a divider page. On this page students write three learning objectives and during the course of the week they add their own work which reflects those objectives.

- Michael facilitated the discussion of the types of questions we can ask students to get their feedback about the activities and lessons. These questions can be asked in a plenary discussion or distributed to students in a form of a small survey (paper or e-versions). We can also put a "suggestion box" in a visible corner of the classroom where students can leave their comments in written form. If comments are in Arabic, our AAs can help with translation.