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   One Of A Great Days                                                          

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   One Of A Great Days                                                          

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Today was the first and the most important day for me to get to know the importance of English Together Project.
At first, we had a warm up activity, My Personal Star, which is so enjoyable. In this activity, we get to know each other and share some information about us. I also want to share this activity with my colleagues  in my PDC meetings. The other activity that we had was also entertaining. It was Action Bound.It was a well planned and organized activity which get to you to move around . For today, I also want to say that I have learned  a lot about being a PDC facilitator. A PDC facilitator has lots of roles and responsibilities at meetings. However, as one of our colleagues has said "Facilitators are not the main characters". This sentence means a lot because the thing that is expected from a fascilitator  is encourage and support his/her colleagues,share new ideas and practices and encourage collaboration among PDC members.
Lastly, I had my doubts about being a PDC facilitator but after I have learned many things about a PDC facilitator , I am not worried anymore.

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Today we mainly focused on listening problems  and solutions for these problems. And also we learned  a lot about pre, while and post listening and we could differenttiate these three stages for listening activities which take place in coursebooks.

I had fun  with activities that we did with our group members. We shared our opinions and tried to find best and the most interesting idea to complete tasks.The other thing that amused me was Onion Ring Activity . This was my favorite one because it can be used for both teaching new things and having fun.I am sure that students will like it as well.

The other thing that I want to mention is the importance of giving instructions. Giving instruction is a significant fact. In classroom or my PDC meetings  I will try to be careful about instructions.

Lastly, the ideas about developing more active listening skills would be appropriate and useful in my classroom because the things that we talked about took my students’ attention so they will be  eager to do.

I think Onion Ring activity will be useful both in my classes and PDC because  students like being physically active and while they have fun, they can learn new things easily.

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First of all, we started with an enjoyable and a beneficial activity  which named “Give Me Five”. It was really useful to check what students had learned . And also it was amusing and funny. I am impatient for using this activity in my classes. I am sure that students will like it too.

The thing that we worked on today  was speaking problems in classroms. We tried to find some solutions for these problems but I think it is really hard to get students to speak in English. However we should do our best and by giving some strategies before speaking we can help them to be able to speak English. Additionaly, we can use some Web sites and Apps  for speaking activities. They will be really efficient in classrooms. For example app Flip can be used for speaking activities.

Paper slide activitiy was also a great and  useful idea for geting students  speak.While doing this activitiy, students can both have fun  by drawing pictures and  improve their speaking skills.

Answers of questions; 1. I have learned the stages of speaking and how important they are. So when I am going to apply a speaking activity , I should give time to my students to think and plan and then want them to speak.2.I will use Paper slide and Role play activities because these two activities are both easy to apply and students can have fun while speaking.

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Today we worked on reading tasks, problems and strategies. At first,we were given a worksheet which  contains instructions and were asked to do it carefully. We could do it by using some reading  strategies. These reading strategies are skimming, scanning, gist and detail reading. After I learned more about these strategies, I thought that it would be really effective for improving students’reading skills. For English exam,which is applied by Ministery of Education, my students have to read long paragraphs to be able to answer the questions in a short time

One of the other things that I learned today was reading out loud is not going to be a reading activity for our students. So, I am not going to do such a reading out loud activity in my classess anymore.

For today’s activities,Carrousel Activity was so enjoyable and it was really easy to organize.The other activity that I want to mention is Running Dictation Activity which was also very effective and I really liked it.

Answers of questions; 1.I think that My collegues would find Running Dictation Activity most useful to solve problemsin teaching reading. 2. To meet with new people and share experinces, learn new things from each of them. You are trying to encourage  that being able to deal with every kind of people who have different personalities.

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Today we started with a writing activity which is so enjoyable as a step to like writing.  This activity will be very useful for teacing writing in classes. We continued with another writing activity , Agony Aunt Letters. This activity was also nice but I think not all students will like such an activity because bringing some pieces together and writing a story is funnier than just writing a letter.

We also worked on aproaches to writing. There are three aproaches but ı think the most useful one is process writing because for this activity ideas are more important than organisation of ideas.After writing aproaches, we tried to adapt these techniques to some coursebook’s activities. With my group members ,we created new ideas for adaptation by using some digital websites.

Answer of question;I think process writing  will be useful because it focuses on varity of activities in the classroom, ideas of students and it promotes the development of language use.

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Starting a day with a warm up activity made me feel so energetic. I actually liked all warm up activities that we have done so far. So when I turn back to my school, I think  that I will use them frequently to take my students’ attention and make them fun.

The role play activity that we had was about defending ideas for indirect and direct grammer teaching methods. We could not find the best way . Actually I think each person have different teaching and learning methods so we can not say that this is the right way that I am going to use for my students. We can just combine these two teaching grammer strategies.

Today I felt happy for teaching vocabulary methods that we have learned  because I have already used them in my classes.  But I also learned new websites for vocabulary teaching.

Answers of questions; 1.I can want them to use vocabulary notebooks and when they write a new word on it, they can draw pictures or make sentences for this word to remember it easily. 2. Actually I think inductive method can be the most appropriate one but we can combine inductive and deductive methods in any need.

Outcomes:

By the end of the sessions, participants will……

* be able to discuss the differences between inductive and deductive grammer teaching.

* be able to use appropriate online tools to create vocabulary teaching games.

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Today we started with a warm up game ,Parasite, which was so enjoyable to play. This game can easily be applied to students. And also students like to be active physically so it will be useful in classrooms.

Assessment was the topic to work on today. It is really crucial to think about because thanks to asssessments we can get feedback  and this feedback helps us for both checking our teaching way and students’understanding of the topic. However it is important to decide which assessment will be more  beneficial. Instead of using summative assessment, we should use formative assessment because it includes the whole process.

Answers of guestions: 1. Yes, I think it can solve some problems . When students make self or peer assement, they can feel more relaxed than teacher assesment. And also students can check and learn something easily. 2. I will use networks to get their attention mostly . If they enjoy in PDC meetings then I will think that one of the most important step will have been achieved.