I am Dafinka I live in beautiful town Smolyan in southern part of Bulgaria. I teach Bulgarian language and Literature in „St. St. Cyril and Methodius” secondary school. Working with other teachers and schools from Europe enriches my work and gives a lot of extra motivation. I love learning new things, travelling, meeting people from other countries. I am interеsting  for new ideas, methods and skills about  educational process. This is my first training course for PBL I  happy to learning a lot with educators and  all participants in the PBL.  Pleasure for me to be part of this inspiring and useful course !

TEACH ME AND I REMEMBER,

INVOLVE ME AND I LEARN

Benjamin Franklin

Course introduktin:
Main points to remember
1- Modules,  Activities, Workload
2- Peer Review Activities & Deadlines & "Blackout" period
- end  22nd November 2017
3- Discussions & Exchanges
4- Assessment & Certification
Course Introduction

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Language learning is never a linguistic phenomenon only.  It is affected by several sociolinguistic and psychological factors which are all intertwined in unique ways in the case of each learner. In my teaching practice I use a few strategies depending  curriculum and time lessons.  

A card for worksheets I use to reinforce and review  literary and linguistic students skill. The task cards include definitions, activity to comlete, ask a question.

Brainstorming is a thinking strategy that involves students in free association of concepts.  Students share ideas and opinions on a topic and create a thought tree.   They may then be used as the basis for another activity such as writing or discussion. It is often very productive as a whole-class activity by inviting students to associate concepts with a selected topic. In the classroom brainstorming encourages learners to think more freely and creatively than if they were doing a more controlled planning exercise. It allows learners to remember what they know, and to teach each other. It is a dynamic and stimulating way to lead learners into a topic.

Creative writing: I write a sentence on a color sheet. The sheet is passed from student to student and each completes the sentence with a new sentence. There is a common story that we read and comment. The other type of writing is under the influence of art picture and music.

Class/group projects: My Students work in groups on different literary and linguistic tasks, they choose the topic and decide what the final outcome is going to be like.  I  help  students distribute the tasks so that they become responsible for the activities. There are some stages while working on project: collecting materials, searching for  information, doing the surveys/ questionnaires, taking photos, working on written texts etc. The students create posters, presentation or reading review. One of the example of class project is journal. While publishing the paper students use their language and artistic skills. They publish their pictures, photos, short stories, crosswords, puzzles, comics. Class or group projects certainly improve cooperation among students.

I think that I will use successfully  PBL in 5th, 6th, 8th and 10th classes.

 

discuss an issue

 solve a problem

create a product 
Collaboration Is Key for Problem-Based Learning

Edmodo https://www.edmodo.com/
Printing Press http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/Printing_Press/

 Thank you so much all colleagues for the shared tools. I would try some of them

In my school I usually use

IT'S JUST THAT I STAY WITH PROBLEMS LONGER
Albert Einstein
I teach Bulgarian Language and Literature in my school. It is very important for me to prepare students for the compulsory national examination, but I want my students to develop international competencies. I believed that this would be done through cooperation with students from Europe. Some years  ago I started to learn English.  It was difficult for me to combine the important school activities, responsibilities like home mother and additional English language coursework. I made efforts and after one year we participated in an Erasmus + KA2 project. Now my challenge is to improve my English language skills.  I would like my school to be able to apply for an Erasmus + KA1 project because I am convinced that international cooperation will improve teaching in the school. It will make students learn the languages easier 

1. Public criticism and discouragement

2. Pupils to be listeners only and not to have their own opinion

3. Difficult activities for pupils who do not have fun and can not see their progress

4. Focusing only on mistakes and failures in activities

5. No supportive environment in the classroom

6. One of the most dangerous situations is when the teacher shows that he does  not believe in the abilities of  the  students