That’s interesting! It seems that I have magic!  Hahaha….  That’ the very example of the different learning style between everyone.

 After the discussion yeaterday, after I saw FLY, I find my self basically a visual learner, I  like learning by seeing, especially movies, and I do agree what Kurt said about his own learning strategy and style. 

 Besides, I consider myself also an analytical learner, according to its definition, since I am not that hard-working but I am turly vulnerable to failure.

 However, it’s impossible for one just learn in one way, I think the most important thing is how we can make oursleves learn comfortably, then we can gain more than expectation! 

 Even you like watching TV and doing the research at the same time, it’s doesn’t matter, just depend on what have been learned!  

 I just wanna say “Aamazing!” I learn a lot from Marilyn and Oscar. Both of them are so creative! Besides their excellent teaching, Marily really acted like an experienced teacher, no matter how we pretend to annoyed her while she was writing on the blackboard, she was still calm! And since Oscar didn’t act that expertly, he was like a new one who with great enthusiasm, engaged his students!

 Then what was I planned fot the 15 minutes? Here’s my draft…..

 I wanted to draw something related these new words, and make the students recall their experiences of school life, so I intended to explain the meanings through Q&A, such as “Do you remember your first year in junior high school?” (refer to freshman.) ”Is there anyone talked to you when you just entered the classroom at the first time?” (refer to chat.)

 It’s my idea, but I don’t know how to arrange them in a particular way….. Anyway, I must consider more aspects, and learn!

Unit One- Images of Animals

What is a lesson plan?

 I like the description of lesson plan in the handout. “If you imagine a lesson is like a journey, then the lesson plan is the map. It shows you whwere you start, where you finish and the route to take to get there.” That’s much funnier than giving us the account, I can’t find a better answer or my own word after reading that paragraph!

What should go into an English language lesson?

 According the handout, we can find there are three elements should be ketp in tha planner’s mind. Each of them are Engage, Study and Activate. I think taht is also the order between three of them. We have to get the students interest in the class fisrt, then foucus on the aspect of the language, finally to make a chance for them to produce thier use of Emglish, and I extremely agree the following words “In an activate stage the students are given tasks which require them to use not only the language they are studying that day, but also other language that they have learnt.” That reminds me of my conversation class of Japanese, we always had an assignment of role play after one theme had been discussed that day. Everytime when we prepared the assignment we did use not only the language we studied that day, but also other language that we had learnt. So I believe that the role paly is one of the most active way to examine student’s learning.

Why is planning important?

 There is another question extends from this, “Do you need to plan if you have a course book?” The answer is definitely “Yes!” The reason is based on the handout, since a lesson plan is like a map, let’s consider a course book as a guide book which contains much useful information,  it just depends on the adaptability and requiremaent for each different tourist group. Then back to the original queation, with the same opinion, planning brings more flexibility and assurance, that’s why it is needed. 

What are principles of planning?

 Finally, how sohould the planning be? As above, first of all, we must know where we are going and how, this refers to aim, then we have to make our student be interested in what they are going to learn, so we need to add much variety to our plan, try to have their attentions. What’s more? “Expect the unexpected” We plan for the lesson but that doesn’t mean we must, or we can always follow through on it, because it is impossible for us to foresee what will happen during the class. All we can do is  keeping the flexibility and always prepare the Plan B in our mind.

 on preparation 

  Durimg my personal reading, I have to admit that I rarely study in whole English, so I did spend  quite a long time to do that, and I realized that I have to work harder at the same time! After reading, both of Sam and me percived that the content of chapter one was a kind of exposition but we didn’t want to  proceed our presentation as a lecture. So we decided to add some stimuli and activities to it.

 Therefore we recollected our learning experience, hoped could find an interesting way to explain those six procedures. And then we remembered the first week how we learned the 10 language teaching approches, that way gave us the idea to provide the clues instead of accounts and arranged the discussion later. Then when we considered that we might have a conclusion, we were not confient of drawing a great one, so we designed the application what probably could make all of us have further thinking.

 Finally, the most important part were done, afterward we must finish our plan. Thus, we divided the class into maybe six groups, made the lipstickers, bought some candies, and used the PPT to connet all of our designs and ideas.   

on presentation 

 This was definitely a whole new experience to me. Fortunately, all of my classmates and the teacher are so kind that I didn’t feel much pressures. However I was a little bit nervous, then I acted very emotionally and exaggeratedly. Although I could not unsterstand every single word that everyone said throughout the duration of the discussion, I still could got the meaning from the interaction between us. After reflection, I found some problems in our presentation.

   First of all, we prepared too many to have enough time for discussion. It seemed that we should explain each procedure and question clearer, and focus on understanding. Second, we didn’t balance the division of our individual presentation, obviously I spoke too much, and I ought to attend more to the teamwork. Third, my English was terrible…. especially my Japanese style of pronunciation and accent. I really appreciated that the teacher and my classmates pointed it out to me. I know I must improve myslef or I won’t be able to keep up with everybody.

 However, it was an interesting experience, and I got more delights in learning English. I will treasure the feedback from everyone, keep my individuality and then strengthen the competitive ability.    

Hi, dear classmates! Here is chapter-1.ppt, hope we will have great discussions tomorrow!

 Before the lessons I have never heard about ICT, when the teacher asked us “what is ICT?”, actually what I thought was the same as Stanly “Information Compture Teaching”…. haha! Later the teacher told us the correct answer is “Information Communication Teaching”.

 These two weeks we went to the lab, then the teacher showed us her teaching experiences of using PPT in an effective and fun way and introduced us web2.0 tools. That really widened my horizon. In my own experiences, I am used to using PPT on my presentation and I do like using PPT. However after the lessons I got a lot of ideas and was more interested in PPT.

 Come back to ICT, internet is, without doubt, the most convenient tool of communication in the world. For teaching or learning, that offers one of the bset way to understand. Because the teachers can organize the materials and share them on internet, that may include messages, pictures, animations and anything else which is helpful to the learners . Especially for the students nowadays, images will be much more stimulative!   

 In addition to our lessens, there is one more my own experience that I think can be an example of ICT. That is the physical education in Taipei Municipal Renai Junior High School. I went to Renai and asked for an interview with the PE teachers. So why I visited them is due to the result of they got the Excellect Teacher Awards in 2006, and I had the assignment was to research the processes of their efforts. 

 The PE teachers used multimedia technology on teaching. For example, they recorded the correct and wrong actions and showed the videos to students, to analyze the motions more specifically, and to examine more interestingly. In the meanwhile they also trained some student plays, and unexpectedly developed students’ ability of  multimedia application!  Seeing is believing! check here!