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This is what I drew at the Drawing Dictation activity. 

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At today's session, we worked on listening. There were a lot of great activities on the table. There are two favorite activities of mine that I can adapt to all of my classes.
One of them is 'Drawing Dictation' or, as Duncan says, 'Describe and Draw'. This activity can be  easily adapted to both all of the grades and all of the levels. Even, as adults and teachers, we had a lot of fun while doing this activity. I believe that when I adapt this activity for my students, they will have a lot of fun like us!
The other activity that I loved is 'Onion Rings'. This can also be adapted to a lot of contents. I think all of the students from different ages will participate this activity in their classrooms. Both stronger students and weaker students can learn new vocabulary while they are having fun. Also, they can learn new information about their friends depending on the questions in the activity.
The most important part of these activities is that students will learn how to listen actively and share information. They will try to remember the words that are used in the activities.

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My school is a center of a lot of villages. So there are students who lives in different villages in my school. Their first language is Kurdish. They learn Turkish late in their lives. And the villagers approach English as an insignificant skill to learn. So, they don't encourage their children. And people in my district are shy to talk in crowd. This holds them back from speaking and participating in speaking sessions.
Of course, there are some activities that I can adapt to my classes. For example, We have done a jigsaw puzzle while we are doing online posters. I can't apply it as it is because I don't have projector or any internet connection. But I adapt by letting my students draw and cut mask shapes on a paper. This way they will keep their anonymity and remove the social fear of speaking in front of a crowd. They feel more secure and relaxed.

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TEACHING READING ACTIVITIES IN MY DISTRICT 

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TEACHING READING ACTIVITIES IN MY DISTRICT 

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Today we worked on reading activities. There are some problems in my local district when it comes to teach reading. The course books that we use at our classes are a bit hard for our students. So it is hard for teachers to participate all students and also, it is discouraging for most of the students because they feel unsecure owing to lack of knowledge. So we need to encourage them to be participants of the activities. I have some ideas to solve these common problems. One of them is that we, as teachers, can adapt  the activities on our course books and simplify them to the level of our students, make the activities more engaging to them. In that way, they feel safer in the class and more interested in joining the activities. Secondly, we can go out of the book and add some activities such as pre-teaching vocabulary, gist reading (if there isn't any in the book) and help them to find it with giving some clues, easier detail reading activities, etc.

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For today's topic, we covered the writing activities. In my district, students' levels are really different. There are students that have special interest in English because of popular culture and social media. Also, there are some students that don't have any interest because they think that learning English isn't an important life skill. So, pairing the students according to their levels isn't a good option because weaker students can feel unsecure and finally they can lose their interest. This is something that we don't want to happen. So we can differentiate the groups and let them correct each other's mistake.
The other thing that is really important is to give instructions that all of the students can understand. So we should keep our instructions as clear as possible so that the weaker students can understand them. Also, we should keep our instructions as short as possible because students can lose their attention if we give them long and complex instructions. The third and last thing that I will mention is that we should give an instruction, get some action with that. After getting some action, then we should give one more like baby steps. In this way, students will remain focused and unconfused.

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Today, we covered both vocabulary and grammar teaching activities. For teaching vocabulary, it is important to encourage the students. So there are some ways to do it. For example, we can personalise the vocabulary activities. We can make them more engaging with the students. In that way, students will be willing to learn and be more involved in the activities. Also, we should teach vocabulary in context so that they can associate the meaning of the words with their collocations. One more thing to add is that we should start with a few new words so that the students can internalise what they learn much easier. I think the matching words with pictures is the most efficient way to teach vocabulary at the beginning and then, we can teach the students that word's collocations in my district.
For teaching grammar, a lot of teachers use the explicit methods in my local district because they think that it is the most appropriate and effective way to teach grammar. I think they would love to discuss teaching implicit methods because this is new to them and if I make it clear that teaching grammar implicitly is a better way to teach, they will want to learn more about how to apply and adapt that method to their classes. I think if they see how easy for them to adapt the activities into student-centered, they will give it a chance and they will be satisfied when they see the results.

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We worked on assessments and PDC outcomes at today's session. For assessment, I thinks 'peer correction would be the most effective and appropriate way to motivate the students because teenagers care about their friends and peer. That's why, when a friend shows their mistakes to them, they will take their friend's opinion into account. Also, with peer assessment, students can learn from each other. They will show each other their lacknesses. It's important to give feedback by someone at their age.
For PDC, I think the greatest advantage of PDCs is collaboration, communication and not dealing with the issues alone. Thanks to PDCs, teacher can share their concerns with their colleagues. They can discuss those issues and come up with a solution. If they aren't sure about something that they practice in their classes, they can ask their colleagues' opinions at PDC meetings. Lastly, teachers may feel alone when they face some problems. These meetings will bring the teachers together that have the same or similar problems. They will try to find a solution to them together in collaboration. In that way, they will feel safer and more confident.