My etwinning project videos.

https://youtu.be/otI3EY9EFrM

 

https://youtu.be/3m5TYCCu81E

 

 My teaching practice

Areas to improve and useful projects

   What is special about our job is that while teaching you never stop learning. This desire for learning is  always fueled by  a desire to improve, give the best of us , update  our  teaching techniques so that  we  can satisfy  our  students' needs.                        

 Feedback and reflecting on our classrooms practices, being open to changes and being ready to embrace new ideas are key qualities for us , teachers , to keep developing for the sake of a better teaching/learning experience.     

      For me, there many things that I would like to try in my class and I live  with the constant feeling of "Anissa, you can do better" which keeps pushing me forward.  

           Areas that I'd like to improve

        Large and mixed-ability classes.   

How to deal with large classe?  For me it's important  to be able to keep order and offer the joy of learning for a large class. I do admit that's not easy. It's hard, challenging, exhausting but,still, have to find a way out and try my best to succeed in keeping their attention and enhusiasm throughout the lesson.  Things get even harder when  students have different  needs . Indeed large classes implies  multi-level / mixed-abilities classes.  I know that I'm in constant need of inspiring ideas, guidance and help to be able to come up  with suitable activities for such a teaching context. Here  are some of  the kinks that  have been of great help  so far

https://www.englishclub.com/teaching-tips/teaching-multi-level-classes.htm English club for ideas to teach multi-level classes. http://www.witslanguageschool.com/NewsRoom/ArticleView/tabid/180/ArticleId/58/Teaching-Tips-Mixed-Ability-Classes.aspx

 Teach the leaders of tomorrow. 

              That's my feeling when I'm in class. I feel that I have that responsibility as I'm teaching young learners. It's a matter of paramount importance to work on boosting their self-image, self-esteem and self-confidence. At that age they may feel lost , they may even lose faith in school and education in general, they may go through different psychological and physiscal changes that might affect their personality and shake their beliefs . So it's up to us to instill all those good values . I think that we should help them work on themeslves to help them become able to pass on those values and be ready for the future (to live in society, at work...)

Projects links:

http://www.globalgoals.org

/http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/  

I've recently discovered it and hope to be part of it.                   

My etwinning project:

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/35587/home

entiltled: Our Words To The Word/ Nos Messages pour le monde
Identidying learning difficulties 

 
        Making the lessons more dynamic.

       Animated classes boosts students' motivation .Websites such as Powtoon  which has helped me create my own videos for the students is one of the tools that is offering a possiblity to make the lessons more dynamic and more interesting and engaging.

 Here is a link to my videos inspired by 'The Serious Farmer" by I kept nearly all the details of the original story but thanks to Powtoon I added a creative dimension to it to give the students the possibility to think and react to the story. I also tried to  offer them the opportunity to be crative by trying to come up with another ending for the story. I also did some changes to the evnts to meet their needs and introduce the vocab I'm supposed to cover in my lesson.  I also worked on the text as I wanted to improve their listening skills also. SO I used

http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/and here is the link to my video using Powtoon

https://youtu.be/otI3EY9EFrM

 Identidying learning difficulties

         I'd also like to be well equipped as teacher to  identify  those students who have learning difficulties easily so that I won't waste my time nor theirs so that support, help  and  understanding would be offered on the spot. Training is highly recommended and need here

                I'm sure that the journey on this MOOC will help a lot working on these areas regarding my teaching practices

Week 1 For Me

Etwinning MOOC 2nd Edition 

 Week 1 for me

  

The World at One Place 

             This is the feeling I had throughout this whole week. There were loads of introductions and greetings  from across the globe. It was  amazing  getting to know each other via the creative devices that we were asked to use.
     

 Challenges and worries

    

        I have to  admit that I started this week feeling anxious about  my ICT skills. Actually I wasn't sure I'd be able to do the assigned tasks. Thank you everyone for your support and guidance to hlep me out. 

    The biggest challenge for me was the creation of the portfolio. But I've ended up by finding the answers to all those questions that I've been trying to solve for so long. I'm really proud of myself now that I have my own blog .

     Twitter and  tweeting was another one. Yolanda  Egea ended up by liking the same tweets several times. I kept sending the same links because I wasn't sure I was doing it properly. 

Support and help to build confidence 

  Now , confident as I feel (thanks to the MOOC team and participants) I feel ready and confident to carry on. 

eTwinning in 140

     Etwinning is an experience that it is a pity to miss and a blessing to live.

       It gives to the teaching learning experience another dimension. Teaching and learning never stops and is never kept into the classroom. The teaching and learning is happening all the time everywhere. 

      It also gives a sense to all the efforts that both teachers and students are putting into their tasks to be heard and known via their creative ideas, personal voices and individual  touches. An experience that both are living ,enjoying and gaining recognition  out of it locally and globally.

      It’s also an opportunity for both partners, i.e educators  and their students, to go beyond their used- to- be-thought abilities and discover others that they’ve   never known they have.

      Etwinning is offering the floor for everyone to try and grow globally.