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It was a really cool day for me. I got motivated for being part of this project. As coming closer to the end of this facilitator training programme, I realized how lucky and excited I am.

The role of a facilitator is to encourage collaboration, share some ideas related with English language teaching and to find solutions to the problems of teachers if they have, in a friendly atmosphere.

As a conmunity of practice, being facilitator makes me feel excited and really motivated. To me, a facilitator shouldn’t be ignorant. He/she should be friendly and eager to share what he/she has learnt in order to encourage collaboration.

I can use “flipgrid” or “chatterpic” and of course padlet for my PLC sessions because they are really enjoyable to do. I am sure that my colleagues will like them.

I think the role of facilitator is clear.

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Today I learnt the importance of using miming, drawing, story telling or realia in teaching vocabulary. In other words, how  important they are. In addition to this, I got informed about many digital tools for teaching vocabulary. The ones caught my attention are “blocket.com” and “wordwall.com”.

In my area, I will share the small warming up games. For example, I really enjoyed with dolmuş game as a teacher. For sure, my students will love it, too. That’s why I will share it with my colleagues. Another one will be booklet. It gives importance to the word repetition. It can be easier with this digitool tool to make our students learn new vocabularies.

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Day 5

In my opinion, it is useful to use flipped teaching in the lesson because students think grammar is difficult to handle with. Before the main lesson, the students can have some information. It is time saving for teachers, as well.

As an only drawback I can state that it is a little bit time consuming for teachers to prepare the things related with grammar before the the lesson. You need to take time and plan your lesson according to this learning approach.

As a follow up activity I can make them watch a video about prepositions. Then, I ask them to write down prepositions they hear. As a second follow up activity, I can give the students some directions and ask them to show me in the class with their movement. For instance, I can say “Go to the teacher table and stand next to it” or “Go to the rubbish bin and put your thrash in it”.

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Day 4

Today I enjoyed a lot, too. Unfortunately, I missed the half of the class because my eye caught infection.

It is really important to increase students’ curiosity before reading activities. Because most of them think that maincourse texts are difficult to cope with. Thus, we can have more warm up acitivities maybe with the related words of the text. For instance, I can prepare a video showing the pictures of the key words of the text. In this way, the students can read more eagerly. After reading, students like making posters. As a digital tool, using “postermywall” can be really good idea. Because it has many options on making a poster. That’s why I can assign my students with this digital tool for their post-reading activities.

I think flipped learning is a useful approach. Because students will be aware of the content before the lesson. So, we can say that it is really time saving.

In order to integrate this approach into my own teaching, I can support the students with websites such as “mystorybook”, “readlngrockets” or “postermywall”. Let’s suppose that the lesson is about saving the planet and they have a text about this subject and the students read the text at home and take some notes. During the class, they can work in groups while preparing a poster for instance using “postermywall”. In thay way, I can take the advantage of this technique as the students collaborate and innovate  here.

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Today, I really enjoyed snowball activity. I am sure that my students will love it.

1. Generally, students aren’t eager to do a listening or speaking session. Because they are too shy and they are afraid of making mistakes. Thus, it could be the topic I would like to deepen on and explore with my colleagues in the PLC.

2. The students’ lack of motivation is one of the major challenges when I do a listening or speaking activity. Most of the time, they are really hesitant to do these kind of activities because they think these type of activities are difficult to handle.

On the other hand, the content of some activities can’t draw their attention. For instance, there is a unit called “Extreme Sports” for the 8th graders. When it comes to the speaking activities of this unit, they have little or nothing to say. Their socioeconomic background don’t give allowance to these activities. As far as I observe, they can play only football or volleyball due to the lack of the income of their families. So, the content familarity is missing here.

3. I think, to maximize the speech in classes, we can give more importance to the real-life situation with the help of role plays. As Jim Ron says “Effective communication is %80 percent how you feel about what you know”, we can increase the students’ confidence by giving examples from daily-life. In that way, they can feel more comfortable and connected to the content and maybe this triggers their contribution to the class.

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It was a great day, too. For me invisible ball activity was really enjoyable because I am not good at remembering the names. That’s why I can use it in my classroom as an ice-breaker activity.

In my opinion, coursebook listening activities are useful for students due to the fact that they are mostly suitable for their levels. Additionally, it is not time-consuming for teachers. These kind of activities are safe to use.

When it comes to the authentic materials, I can say that maybe they are more enjoyable than course book materials. They are not artificial like the main course listening activities. Indeed, they are created for real-life. We can catch the student’s attention more easily because they are based on real life situation. So, they can feel more connected to the content.

In order to develop more active listening activities in my class, I can support the students with some visual things such as pictures or posters. For instance, let’s say that they are supposed to listen a weather forecast, I can show them some pictures related with the vocabulary (cold, hot, windy, etc). In that way, I can extend the listening activity and it leads nicely to kind of a flow for the main listening activity :)

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It was a really exciting and lovely day for me. Meeting up colleagues from the other cities was a great experience. The activity called “Someone like me” is my favourite one because it is a fun way to know a person :) I can use it in my own class as an ice-breaker activity.

Using online tools for writing is popular recently due to the technological development and students love them, too. So, using online tools has positive impact on them.

Indeed, not just writing but writing in a creative way got my point. While giving assignments relates with writing, it is really important to make students comfortable, as well.

I think my colleagues would be most interested in digital tools as story maker or story jumper. It is not only enjoyable for students but also for teachers. Padlet could be one of their favourites, too. The digital tools I wrote above can draw student’s attention and trigger his or her creativity.