Open eTwinning -Teacher Academy by Duygu Üstünbaş https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q en-us 2018-11-24 11:46:09 UTC 2023-06-05 13:30:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Hello, 3)I've been teaching English for 11 years. This is my fourth year in the same school. I'm very lucky because I always have nice students who are eager to learn new things. This is my second year as an eTwinner. 2) Two activities that I can't stop doing; travelling and watching movies :) 1) If I weren't a teacher, I would be a doctor because I like helping people. dlevend https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307386085

]]> 2018-11-24 11:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307386085 eTwinning is a great opportunity to improve my teaching skills, to share and to collaborate with other teachers and last but not least to motivate my students. That's fantastic! dlevend https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307409769 2018-11-24 16:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307409769 PBLI am very interested in PBL and I want to learn more, that's why I enrolled on this course. dlevend https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307410145 2018-11-24 16:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307410145 ANALYSING MY TEACHING PRACTICE I am trying to use innovative teaching methods: student-centered pedagogy, life skills like empathy, ICT, peer learning as I want my students to develop their competences. I am taking part in my first eTwinning project and for three years I have been doing a project about diversity in my school through films. But...What can I improve? Students' partecipation and motivationMore ICTMore PBLSpeaking skillsStudents' creativity, cooperation and critical thinking What would I like to try?I would like to use PBL in a better way and to improve the use of web tools.What am I not happy with?The lack of timeThe scarcity of resources at schoolIs there anything not working?There is not enough time to plan activities and projects because of the strict curriculum and the school schedule. dlevend https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307410262 2018-11-24 16:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307410262 dlevend https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307413526 I think all  the 6 criteria are important to  create a good project! But the aspect that I consider essential is  communication and interaction among partner schools, without that you could not even plan or start  any etwinning projects. eTwinning is based on communication and interaction among different countries. Students love to interact with each other and teachers can work better if they plan together sharing ideas.
Innovation and creativity are important too, because they make a project enjoyable and engaging. Finally using ICT allows to obtain more motivation and involvement from the students. 
In sum, I would primarily care for these criteria to ensure a successful etwinning project.]]> 2018-11-24 16:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307413526 dlevend https://padlet.com/dlevend/8umbi0bwye9q/wish/307413929 NAME: LET'S SING TOGETHER!

AGE:  11-13 year old students
KEY COMPETENCIES: language, sing songs, have fun

SUBJECTS: Foreign Languages, Music

PARTNERS: Schools from about three different countries

ABSTRACT
         For each month we'll study a song in English to learn daily usage of target language. For each song we'll prepare quiz and games to test the target words in the song by using Web.2 tools. After that group of three studentswill sing the song, then we'll create video using the students' records. Finally, we'll watch the video together to evaluate our progress.

GOALS
           The aim of the project is to improve students pronunciation of target language by listening and then singing the songs, in addition students will have an opportunity to communicate in target language with their peers and they will gain self-confidence when they manage to comminicate with peers and sing the song. They can evaluate themselves and their friends watching the video of songs because we will save video then later students can see their progress.
WORK PROCESS:
Let's Sing Together  Project will last 5 months( October, November, December, March, April) Partners will decide the songs which will be studied. At the beginning of the project, we'll prepare games and quiz together. For instance, If I prepare first months' games and tests and , next month one of my partner do the same. After deciding the song, we'll study it carefully then studens'll play the games, take the quiz . Then we'll make the groups. While making groups we should conceive the levels of students. We'll make groups of three students they'll sing the song together then my partners and I combine the records in a video.
Evaluation form: the work is evaluated with on line questionnaire (google forms) and through the evaluation of the respective comments in the TwinSpace.
Dissemination:  school website, web page; an presentation in which pictures, videos etc..
EXPECTED RESULTS:
    Final product will be the videos. Thanks to the videos students can able to understand their peers and their progress in target language, not only as pronunciation but also daily usage.


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