Yesterday's session was quite interesting … first I had a taste of what I like best about the AUC Teaching diploma in general which is getting to share my experiences and thoughts with fellow teachers. So talking within the group discussing our response to the questions was enlightening. I can never get enough of these talks !
Second the fact that we got to talk in pairs about our ideas about projects and we got to compare and adjust our thoughts according to the feedback we had from each other.
Pairing with lamis was definitely an added bonus … she's a sweetheart.
Last but not least … Dr. Joyane's idea about presenting all the projects to the class and voting and maybe adjusting some of them … actually gave us opportunity to end up with a group of thoughts simply applicable for different subjects and can be performed by many grades.
In fact I liked our discussions of the project ideas with class members ... I discussed mine today in my class… I asked the students to give me feedback about couple of ideas I had and I explained how I need the project to be motivating to them and relate family and community and they picked the "interests and banking project" I presented yesterday.
So I think that to ensure a project's success … we should look for ideas from learners to guarantee motivation.
Reham, I finally have access to make a comment on your second posting. Thanks for changing the location of the blog to enable me to do so. I am so thrilled about your enthusiastic participation in this class and your willingness to take your experiences back to your students. What insight you had when your said "I think that to ensure a project's success … we should look for ideas from learners to guarantee motivation." And so providing learners with opportunities to discuss ideas should always be part of your lesson. I am looking forward to your wonderful weekly reflections.
ReplyDeleteThat's true. The group discussion was very useful to me. I got a lot of information about the teenagers from you ,Lamis and Ms. Shaimaa, which I will use in my project Inshaa Allah. Thanks :D
ReplyDeleteGreat Reham..This is what i like most about AUC diploma meeting such great colleagues from different schools, rich experiences and enlightened thoughts. As you said our discussions in the class opens our minds to different ideas we would never think of in our own...Thank you for being such wonderful colleague.
ReplyDeleteof course Reham the discussion is very fruitful it enlightens a lot of vague things to me concerning the community based learning and although each one of us has his/her own idea on their project but listening to all ideas could derive all of us to try to share it with friends and colleagues at schools to spread the motivation among adolescent students.
ReplyDeleteCan you please copy your first post from your Google+ account into this one? Thanks.
ReplyDeletei did "the beginning" ... enjoy ;)
DeleteI'd like to call Tuesday's class "support group meeting". Actually i became looking forward to it :) Definitely I'd like to share with you some more details about the project tomorrow isA, Partner ;)
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