week six final reflexions

Sometimes people hurry up to get hings done for no reason,  or for a feeling of accomplishment or the sense of freedom afterwards. I hurriedly did all my assignments this week for none of the above mentioned reasons, but simply to get more work done. Little did I know that starting form Thursday I will be in bed with temperature together with one of my daughters. Life is so unpredictable. Last week I felt like I was on top of the world and at the end of this week I feel pretty down. But still I am anxious to open tomorrow`s assignments and do some more work. I think I already feel better, just thinking about it!

week 6

This week is very special for me because I have tried/intend to try as many new teaching techniques as possible and get feedback from my students. The articles I have read so far have been extremely helpful in helping me build up my theoretical knowledge as well as practical one. I couldn`t help but participate in both discussions this week, although only one is obligatory, but I find the topics so interesting and if I didn`t do it I would feel bad and left out.
Power Point has always been my weak point, no matter how much I learned I always encounter a problem I need help with. Sometimes I ask myself if I am ever going to master it.
Engaging students is another difficulty we all have as teachers. Students seem to be less and less interested in what we have to offer or just too tired and busy with other things. That is why we, as teachers always have to look for new ways to motivate them. Sometimes I ask myself, who will work on my motivation?.Where do I find it? I remember as a student I had it and if the teacher was motivating, fine, if not, I found motivation within myself. But today`s students seem to blame it  all on us and make us do their job too!

week 5 final reflectons

Another week is over and tomorrow we are starting the other half of this course which is getting better and better. It has been a wonderful and exhausting week for me at the same time. I had to do so many things,apart from this course. But I am going to get up early tomorrow and do the work I am supposed  to do for week 6.I can`t wait!

week 5

As usual I have  already done most of my tasks by Wednesday and the reason why I am always in such a hurry is that I have been attending another  online course at the same time and I have tasks and assignments to do for that course as well. It is at http://www.seeta.eu/ and the name of the course is Adapting Your Coursebook With Technology .
 Another thing I have coming up this weekend is Cambridge Day organized by Cambridge University Press.I have to prepare for that event because   three months ago I won their competition and on Saturday there is an official ceremony to hand me in my prize. You can see the announcement at
http://view.emarketing.cambridge.org/?j=fe9215787363057c70&m=fea415707566037c75&ls=fdff15757661047c7617727c&l=fef013747c6c07&s=fe2b167970620474751071&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe571577716c07797c10&r=0
 The reason I am telling you this is to motivate you to participate in all competitions for teachers because hard work is always awarding and brings prizes  and not only material ones.The satisfaction you feel after winning a competition is just amazing. It boosts your motivation in a way that you think you can do anything. I consider this course we are all attending as a first prize win as well, because the knowledge I will get from this course and the skills I will acquire will definitely help me win more competitions!

week 4 final reflections

Another week is almost over and again I feel I have done a lot. I started working on my project in more details this week with my project class. I set up their class blog and the idea seemed wonderful to them. The class blog is on http://svetinagimnazija342011.wordpress.com/
I put two exercises for my students, but I plan on putting more.I hope they like it.

Week 4

This course is getting more intense and I like it The tasks are graded which is excellent., because I think if we had been given these tasks for week 1 , we would have all given up since it would have been too difficult.With the way  the tasks  are graded, we have had time to gradually improve our skills and get used to the expectations. We also have had time to raise our own expectations and standards for this course.
This week I will put some of my plans into practice with my students  and try new technology-enhanced lessons. Hopefully my students will react positively, but even if they don`t it will help me solve some issues we have and make my lessons better.

week 3 final reflections

It `s been a very productive week for me. I `ve done a lot of work for this course and I have also started attending another online course organized by  SEETA (South Eastern Teachers' Associations ) and the name of the course is "Adapting Your Coursebook With Technology". I applied for this course a few months ago and I was chosen to attend it , so right now I am very busy with my work and these two online courses that I am doing. If anyone is interested in learning more about our association , you can go to http://www.seeta.eu/. The course is  of a closed type, but I think you would learn a lot just by looking at their website and maybe you can get involved with some other activities they organize in the future.
Our first task was to create two questionnaires one for teachers and one for students using Tricider. You can look at my questionnaires at  http://tricider.com/admin/9s3U/MFvOS
and http://tricider.com/admin/9uVX/MLoFb
Please DO NOT vote or leave any comments as this would affect the course I am doing. I am giving you the links just as an idea of what you could do with your students and maybe to create your own  questionnaires and use them with your students.
It is so motivating when you are learning so much!