ANOTHER GREAT WEEK!
I am very happy with the way the course is progressing. I am particularly fascinated by the new things so far learned. I cannot wait to know how much knowledge I will acquire at the end of the course. I have learnt a lot from my colleagues; how I wish we were physically together inside a classroom.
The tasks of this week namely; searching the web, describing a class and ABCD learning objectives kept me busy and I had to spend more time with the computer than last week. Looking at colleagues' posts especially on class description helped me to rate my school and teaching environment in my country. When I read Norit posts where she talks about students attitude, what comes into the fore is the hardships we teachers go through trying to mould future citizens who are not interested in learning.
Searching the web opened another world of web searching hitherto unfamiliar to me. In the process of identifying the best sites I go a lot of other important information that enriched my world view.
ABCD learning objectives took me back to college days when I was training as a teacher. I found the American method of stating learning objectives similar to Kenyan method. I wish Mr Robert would react to my objective that I posted. This would give me assuarance that I did the right thing.
I wish to retaliate what I stated earlier about lack of technology in my school. I am yet to apply what I have so far learnt.
Hello Francis
ReplyDeleteSome interesting thoughts here. I wouldn't say the ABCD method is the American Way of doing objectives; rather I'd say it is one way, and it makes it pretty convenient for new objectives writers to hit the important components.
Yes, it would be nice if I could react to every objective post before the grading. However, due to time limitations, I am reacting to some of the early posted ones, and trying to guide a few of the ones that are "on" or "off" target. I am hoping that our class will read each others, and learn from my comments on the few, and the student comments on each others. It is a bit like in class, when I am checking a problem at the board, I am not always able to check everyone's answers. I hope that by watching how we correct some at the front of the class, we can all learn the necessary lessons to improve our own.
Does that make sense?
Robert
Hi Robert
ReplyDeleteOh, yes your comment makes a lot of sense.
Thanks
mbatia Francis