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how you can integrate peer assessment in your Learning Design?

I use peer evaluation and rubrics but not very often. My students are not used to this type of activity because the learning style in my school is very traditional unfortunally. Yet, I know that peer assessment is vey useful because it  lets students reflect and  also understand the difficulties of evaluting someone's work. It is a seriou task indeed . Moreover peer evaluation has to be structured very carefully and the teacher has to be  very professionally prepared in order to create and select the most appropriate and reliable criteria.
I found the ladder of feedback useful and I am going to read more to understand it more deeply

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Are you free to assess students in any way you want?Yes, I am because in my school assessment is only formality, so is not meant to measure learning. This is a pity, The students  the day they have to have a test feel too  much anxious, this makes them get a performance  not so good as they could because they can't control their emotions!!! I think that this is the school/ Institution responsability, and it  causes lots of problems among students, teachers and families.

Or do you have to follow a strict testing system with regular standardised tests every few months?  Yes we are expected to test students at the end of every module but I do not care so much  because I am interested in the students learning rather than  in the quantity of teaching I can provide my students .
What types of assessment are common at your school/in your country?
Very traditional tests not  related to reality and  based on content / knowledge measurement
Do you collaborate with colleagues when it comes to assessment?
No, because  most of them work on their own, unfortunately we  rarely work in  team

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I think that some strategies are ecessary to be taken into consideration by teachers if they really want to develop resilience  in their students.
1) Teachers should let students choose because this creates a sense of ownership and also makes them responsible and autonomous learners Moreover,. Providing opportunities to choose topics of interest stimulates students’ natural curiosity and eagerness to learn.
2.They should be given a precise role  role as agent .
3.Rewarding  success with praise is also a way to help students get resilience
4) Get students accept failure and understand that failure is necessary to  stenghthen their personality; Let them  accept that mistakes have to be turned into  learning opportunities ;
5) Teach students to controll the negative emotions that can interfere with learning.

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3. Developing student-driven activities for PBL

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3. Developing student-driven activities for PBL

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Resilience and persistance is in my opinion part of one's personality but may be   failure  and difficulties sometimes  turn into opportunity for  developing self-confidence and success,on condition that  a person is strong  enough not to give up.
When I was a student I was not  very good at languages and at  foreign languages. I felt very sad  but I had no encouragement form my teachers who did not care about my interests. However, in spite of  the fact that I could not get good scores, I wanted to achieve my goal which was to become able to speak and understand native speakers, I studied a lot but , now I understand that it depended on  the type of methodology and the inefficient pedagogical approach, So I decided to work part time and save to afford   travelling to England and attend a paying summer school. I did this for several years till I  leaarned the language, but not only. Indeed I made a lot of friends,  developed a more open mind and intercultural competences . In this way, I got  my objective. I never regret  the difficulties I had to overcome for several years before  I got to my  goal.

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I must admit that it is nt easy to formulate the driving question, although you may have a clear idea in your mind, It is necessary to think a lot and deeply and much more........

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2. Developing effective collaboration for PBL

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2. Developing effective collaboration for PBL

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This photo was taken in Vienna at a Comenius  international meeting  some years ago. The students were asked to work in groups to  produce a logo , then thay had to present it to the teacher and students audience and motivate their chìoices. Finally they voted for the best one which became the Project logo.

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There are really a lot of collaborative tools on line, ttha it is impossible to list all of them of course.
I have just seen on this padlet mentioned so many,which I use a lot with my students.
Google slides. google docs, thinglink,  wallwisher, Mindomo, google form , Socrative and survey monkey for  surveys or for tests on line. In short  it depends on the kind of outputs the students  are asked to produce.I regret that  there a lot of this tools which  have to be  paid and this is not possible for a school or a teacher. I am very sad because I used Tacckk  for writing  learning   diaries for myself and for my students. Suddenly,  this tool was shut  down without any possibility to get our  work back, as far as I know.
This is not fair. the same thing happened with titanpad which was something similar to wikispace.com.

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2.4 Finding collaboration partners outside the classroom

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2.4 Finding collaboration partners outside the classroom

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I am very fond of E-twinning. I have been running e-twinning  project for several years now. I agree with te fact that this safe site and community gives students a strong motivation for  language improvement but also  in self-evaluation and cooperation, They work in groups which is useful to  let everyone feel having a role and a goal to achieve according to their natural inclinantions. Moreover the fact that they interact with real students makes  their work  meaningful . Also,  they want to do well, they ask me to correct their own texts, they put lots  of energy and efforts to produce nice interesting and attractive outputs, which indeed they do.  Their creativity can be easily expressed  by working in E-twinning. In conclusion the students have lots of benefits, they improve social , linguistic digital and literacy competences as well as  enterpreuneurship one. As for  networks of local professionals there are some which regularly work with our students, they are generrally sport clubs or art clubs but I think that No PBL approach is used in this kind of experience , so it is not always so attractive for students to follow and to learn.

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This video created by my students introduces the school building which is a special one, because it used to be a Jesuit monastery ; now it is adapted into a school!!!

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This video is meant to let our partner get an idea of our school building, the place where teachers and students spend most of their daily life from Monday to Friday

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“How can we best convince teenagers to be healthy eaters?”, I think that this is a worthy driving question

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For me the most challenging part of using PBL approach is the rigid summative assessment that is imposed at a certain time of the school year . It happened that  my students work in compliance with the PBLapproach, in groups. It takes time for them to get organized in groups to  get everyone a role in the group and to take the task seriously

my students expect that the “good teacher”  is the one who tells them what to do, no choice , no debate. In fact another challenge is the lack of ideas, or if some of them have any idea, he/ she  refuses to express it because  of  lack of self-confidence,  fear of making mistakes, or because he/ she  fears to  sound fool. Finally when the activities are progressing well, The summative assessment

period arrives and I have to turn it into numbers/ scores.

Of course I have got lots of  feed back and data to assess my students. Yet, my stydents themselves are the obstacle because  they believe that the traditional way of assessing : asking for facts, knowledge, is the most reliable way to be assessed

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This  methodology let's students become competent and acquirethe 21st century skils which are highly required in the real  job market:
collaboaration
communication
Digital literacy
critical thnking
entreprenership
Social  and cross-cultural competences .
flexibility
leadership skills

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Propositions Project: 21st Century Skills

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What is PBL?

BPL is a methodology which is students centered and helps them develop :
Critical thinking

communication

Collaboration.

by watching the video it seems very feasable to apply this methodoogy to  any class, yet it is not so easy especially when the teachers work individually , or better they are not prepared and trained to team work, This is the situation in my real school. This means that this methodology is efficient when teachers together create a curriculum and all of them work to let students achieve objectives and competences which have to be presented and shared with the stuents too.

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Hi! My name is Maria Rizza and I live in  the south east of Sicily.

I teach in a secondary high school in Noto , It is a baroque style town, a world wide  known place; It is a tourist attraction for its palaces  and monuments. Indeed my school is hosted in an old jesuit monastery .

I teach English as a secondary language and I am aso a coordinator of Erasmusplus project

So the project based learning is not new  for me.

however I am participating in this corurse to improve myself professionally , I think  this course offers the opportunity to learn more on this topic and to  share experiences with colleagues from other countries. This is  very fuitful