Hi all,

I enjoyed myself a lot while reading the required articles for this week especially about the PBL and the web-quests. PBL approach is designed to a more autonomous learning directed by more responsible students. As I mentioned in the nicenet, it's not an easy task to design projects and incorporate them in the curricula in a way that match the required topics and objectives. But it's definitely worthy trying this shift in the whole spectrum of the teaching curricula.

I always hated the traditional ways of assessment using paper-and-pencil tools which show students' proficiency of English rather than the actual use of it. Alternative assessment on the other hand solve this problem by showing the students' ability in using real English.
I posted an alternative assessment tool which is a performance assessment that assess students' oral ability. It's called strategic interaction(scenarios) where students perform a certain situation and the teacher focus and measure their performance and assess to what extend students have accomplished the desired goals or objectives.

Another assignment for ma was thinking of a solution for the previous anticipated problem in my class. I thought of adding a news session in my class and provide mu students with a transcript for the oral excerpt. I thought also of asking students to listen to the same news at the same time and on the same channel. Then discuss it with each other online. After that, give me the feedback next lesson to fill in the gaps and focus on the needed language.


I tried my best to do the extra credit task but unfortunately I couldn't because I had to attend a workshop conducted here in Aleppo at the HIL .

That's all for now. Your comments are welcomed.

Hala