Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Let Kids Rule the School

The article "Let Kids Rule the School" written by Susan Engel is about an education and independent project. It says that students run their own education system and they prepare their own curriculum. And, also they choose whatever they want to study in high school and they teach it to others. Firstly, I read the article, it came to me very good idea, but then I thought that it is really hard to administer this system. I know that most of countries education system isn't good, including my country. They teach sometimes  very unnecessary subjects, rather than teaching something for real world. Therefore, students don't want to study and they are bored with the subjects. However, high school students don't know which subject is necessary for them, they can not choose correct subjects and I think most of them don't want to teach it to others. This is really difficult to apply for many students.
Maybe, it will be very good for some students, it is necessary to try this independent project and see what happens;)

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Unit Plan

I am so confused about our lesson plan because I couldn't exactly comprehend how we will combine 3 lessons, actually we discuss and we have some idea and my group members always help me.
Our unit will be about fairy tails, I think it is very enjoyable topic and it can be perfect lesson. Almost every child knows at least one fairy tail, and they can share their fairy tails and ideas with their classmates. If they don't know any fairy tail, it is ok, because they will learn a few fairy tails in this lesson and they will comprehend what is fairy tail. Also, they can contrast with the real world and fairy tail world. Fairy tales help the students to extend their dream world.Moreover, fairy tails help the students to extend their thesaurus(vocabulary), thinking ability and it helps them to set up cause and effect relationship.We want to use fairy tails in our lessons because of the reasons that I mentioned.
"In what ways fairy tails help us to teach english as a second language" is my unit question and I think there are many ways.
Do you believe in fairies? … If you believe clap your hands.
James M. Barrie
Peter Pan

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Little Red Riding Hood

Making school fun and interesting for children can be tricky. Using familiar stories is one way to catch their attention. Lessons and learning about social situations can all implemented using the story of "Little Red Riding Hood". Therefore, I chose the fairytale "L.R.R.H" for my ESL students. While they are learning, they use their imaginations and have fun. Little Red Riding Hood has memorable characters that differ widely in appearance and motivation. In this unit, firstly, students read the story and watch the its movie. After that, they will be three groups and they will write descriptive words for the characters. Thanks to this, they can discuss together and they can share their ideas. Moreover, the studentsboth  learn some english and have fun with the enjoyable activities and games.