*What will the biggest challenges for you in your job as a teacher?
* The biggest challange is when  my students dont feel motivated to learn.

Designing the activities with ICT tools can also be helpful becuase, for example, with  a collaborative online tool, shy students can attend the lesson in a way that they can express themselves indirectiy without revealing completely what  they really dont know.

Beside I let mt students take part in eTwinning projects where they can colaborate, work in groups/in pairs or induvidually.

 

 

When I was at primary school, we were in the same classroom with 5 grades and only one teacher. While the 1st grade students drawing we, 5^th grades, were studing another subject, and the other grades were busy with th other tasks. We had only our books and a blackboard. No I get surprised to myself that I was able to be a teacher and teaching is definetely more than just lecturing and we have to enable students to explore more and be creative with different classroom activities. You dont need to have complicated or expensive materials. Creative teachers wiil also let their students be creative with various tasks and activities. Learning by creating will let students be more confident, curious and motivated to explore more.

Since our students are digital natives they like learning through technology.However, teachers and adminisration should believe the power of technology and the they need to be trained about how they can effcienty integrate the technology for classroom use. In this way teachers will get more benefit from the technology to design their teachingand create a useful content.

 

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Developing learners’ soft skills:

As teachers we need to design activities that will let students improve their soft skills such as creative thinking, problem solving, decision making, communication abilities as well as networking, motivation, time management. İmproving these soft skills will let the students gain 21 st century skills.They will feel themselves more confident and independent to formulate their own learning. For example eTwinning projects can be one of the best ways of improving students’ soft skills with various kind of topic and activities integrated with ICT skills

 

 

Giving students independence and ownership over their learning: “

 Improving the students sense of personal responsibility through collaborative tasks will give them independence over their learning. When the students share the roles to complete a collaborative task, they feel themselves important and more motivated to learn.In a group work with their peers they feel freer themselves to take responsibilities rather than completing a task indıvidually. Collaborative tasks are also the best of way encouraging and enhancing shy learners autonmy.