My Learning Diary by Gabriela Șandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o en-us 2016-06-05 19:39:31 UTC 2023-03-05 07:29:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/sticky.jpg About me gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/113738939 My name is Gabriela Șandru. I am a teacher of English in Tg.-Mureș, Romania which is a wonderful serene town in Transylvania. I've been playing with English in the classroom for 16 years and I love my job!]]> 2016-06-06 03:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/113738939 Reflection on my current teaching practice gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114417579 I've been teaching English for 16 years. I have always wanted to make my subject attractive, motivating, easy to learn and I pay attention to engaging students into their own learning. I use lots of interactive activities in class, especially games, I alternate the whole-class approach with pair work and group work. I divise competitions between two teams - the students collaborate to get the answers correctly for their team while competing with the opposing team at the same time. I have used PBL in class. The most spectaculous I think was the Travel Agency Project, where students worked in groups to design a travel agency. They enjoyed the research part - collecting data for the agency - and the design part - they had to work out how to advertise their holidays. They were really creative and had fun. The final stage of the project was that students from other grades came to 'buy' trips and holidays from our 'Travel Agencies".  The only backdraws of the project were that it had been time consuming and not all the resources needed were available. However, the activity was quite a success and students learned a lot, developing competences they need in their real life.]]> 2016-06-12 16:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114417579 Formulating my driving question gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114417631 "Why is YOUR school the BEST school in town?" - I plan to implement a project with my 7th graders (pre-intermediate level) to design a video advertisement for their school. I'm planning to split the class in groups; each group is going to deal with all aspects (curriculum, labs, classrooms, gym, extra-activities, staff). In each group, the students will have specific roles (script-writers, presenters / actors, editors, sound 'engineers', camera operators) The clips are then put together in a video advertisment of the school. The resulted ads are uploaded on the school's Facebook page and voted by the public. This way, not only will I promote language learning and communicative functions such asking for /  giving opinions, persuading, recommending, comparing and contrasting, etc. but also promote our school in the community.]]> 2016-06-12 16:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114417631 My School gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114418287 ‘Tudor Vladimirescu’ is a small school in Tg.-Mures, a wonderful town on River Mures, situated in the heart of Transylvania, the central region of our country, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountain Range.

Our school is a mixed primary – secondary school with students’ ages ranging from 5 to 15. We are also mixed nationalities, Romanian and Hungarian as Transylvania is a region characterized not only by medieval legends, but by mixed population, language and culture. There are approximately 800 students learning in our school.

My students  are witty and creative and they like to get involved in different educational projects.

]]> 2016-06-12 17:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114418287 Involving the Community gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114982878 We begin each school year at our school with a Health Parade - a parade whose aim is to involve the community in our life and to draw attention to the importance of healthy eating. Children dress up as fruit and vegetables and give out fruit and leaflets to passer-bys.]]> 2016-06-19 15:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114982878 Effective collaboration  gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114982931 Tell students what they are going to revise / consolidate and give out the printed material, if any. Draw on the board a number of stairs going up and then down. The number of steps depends on how much material you want to revise. Place the witch at one end of the stairs and the prince at the other end, while the princess should be on top of the stairs, next to the cauldron. Tell students they work in 2 teams, i.e. the witch against the prince, in order to get to the princess. Each correct answer allows them to climb one step up. Students write the correct sentences on the board/ in their notebooks.]]> 2016-06-19 15:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114982931 Collaboration Tools gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114983769 https://www.edmodo.com/
http://piratepad.nl/
https://titanpad.com/
http://www.imagechef.com/
https://www.tricider.com/home
https://doodle.com
https://slack.com/
http://trendblog.net/6-easy-to-use-online-collaboration-tools-make-teamwork-simple/
http://storybird.com/]]> 2016-06-19 15:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114983769 Learning Design gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114986979 https://v.gd/teLJ63]]> 2016-06-19 17:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/114986979 Module 3 gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115070882 Describe a situation in your professional or personal life where you were first unsuccessful but because you stuck with it you succeeded in the end - Skiing - definitely, that's it. I learnt how to ski at the age of 45. Couldn't hold myself on skiis the first time. Was mosly down. Kept falling. But I stuck to it! I really wanted to be able to ski and flow gently down the slope like the other skiers. Managed to do that two months and hundreds of falls later! I wanted to prove myself I am as good as anyone else on the slope. There isn't such a thing as 'I can't" in my vocabulary! ]]> 2016-06-20 15:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115070882 Module 3 - Scaffolding for Ownership and Independence gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115071933 I think teachers should act mostly as monitors (after setting the task and giving clear explanation on what is to be learnt) and only when the students are stuck for a longer period on the task teachers can act as prompters - making sure to elicit the information from the students not to serve it directly. Thus, critical thinking and autonomy in learning is encouraged.]]> 2016-06-20 16:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115071933 Module 3 - gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115073086 What NOT to do - criticize in front of the class, let other students make fun of weaker ones, not care enough to bring motivational tasks to class, teaching based exclusively on the 'lecture' type, ignore weaker students.]]> 2016-06-20 16:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115073086 Assessment gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115503251 I teach English as a foreign language in Romania. We are free to assess our students in various way – formative or summative tests, oral productions, project work, portfolios, self-assessment, etc. I ususally create my own tests but sometimes I use tests / parts of tests created by the authors of the textbook we use. There is a standardized test during their 6th year at school but that’s it.]]> 2016-06-27 11:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115503251 gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115504375 2016-06-27 12:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115504375 Rubistar gabrielasandru https://padlet.com/gabrielasandru/hq7hnqtsiq6o/wish/115505432 Video- Preproduction : School Ads
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