Reflective Week 5

Though, I was busy with some professional tasks, week 5 has brought new surprises in my life. I have got the opportunity of reading the articles on rubric, alternative assessment, project based learning and web quests. Replacing my traditional way of teaching, I found them quite interesting and interactive to learn by sharing through this vast learning circle.

The article on alternative assessment gave me insight on the use of alternative assessment while evaluating students work. The reasons of my likes are: it fosters the learner-centered classroom; these methods give learners opportunities on their linguistics development and their learning processes. As the features of it are solely based on students’ performance and evaluation, it provides enough opportunities for the students to participate not only in their learning activities but assessment as well. I think incorporating alternative assessment with traditional forms of testing will be quite useful and effective in ESL/EFL class.

Another task, I went through was web quest. Going into it, I felt little difficulty but finally I was successful in having the URL. But still I have done nothing more than that I have created the URL. Project -based learning, is my next achievement of the fifth week.

This week as a project work, I dealt about the problem that I am facing in my class room along with the possible solution. Finally, I have learnt  a lot from this web skill course.