Week journal 2 (18 April 2014)

  These are three questions of the Socrative test (left) and the students' results (right).

 

Significant Situation 

I made a Socrative test of 40 questions on the grammar items present perfect and past perfect for my second year students, 2IGH1. The students made the test on Thursday, the 17th of April. Afterwards, I gave them their score. Then I connected my laptop to the overhead projector and we went through the most difficult questions together. Students asked questions and took notes.

Reflection

I decided to make online quizzes instead of paper quizzes in order to make the tests more accessible for the students and fun. I also wanted to make checking the quizzes very easy for myself since the students will not get an official grade and Socrative checks the results for me. This saves me a lot of time and the students can see their results right away.

The effect of using Socrative for English tests is that students will be interested in doing the test because they're allowed to use their phones or laptops.

Students said that the test itself was difficult, but that they loved the program.

The students told me to make more quizzes, because it made them realize what they were doing wrong, which answers were incorrect, and what they needed to improve on. They were able to see exactly what the correct answers were because I sent them the Excel document with their results, questions, and their answers in it, which Socrative compiled as I closed the test.

Planning, designing and taking the test is important to me because I want to be able to know how to incorporate ICT into my classroom and how to improve the students' grammar, one item at a time.

What this says about me is that I want to be/am the kind of teacher that spends time considering what the students don't know yet and rectifying that by making a plan.

My conclusion are that I am a considerate teacher and that I have the means of helping students by using ICT during my lessons in order to motivate the students.

My learning aim for next week is:
-Designing and checking writing tasks.

Internship Progress

Next week, I'm going to be busy writing and organizing my LIO portfolio. I will also design two writing tasks for 1IGH2 and 1IGH5.
Until next week!