Posts

Showing posts from April, 2017

Webinar

Image
I wanna share my experience in attending webinar last night. 13/4/2017, 9-10 Lebanon time, titled Equity, access, and achievement in the Math classroom. presented by Cathy Fosnot and Fran Roy First I had to make search over internet to find educational wesites that provide attending webinar for free. I found Education Week Webinar which listed the schedule. I registered for Math one ( Visit the Website ) I had to include my email and some personal information. a reminder had been sent to my email before webiner started to tell me that I had to use link 15 min before the webinar time. when webinar started a girl introduced the two who would do the presentation. It was about Math achievement. the two  started their presentation and started to determine the key factors that would cause weakness in Math (Numeracy) then they started to talk about methods and modules  that would improve students' achievement in Math, and about how importamt is to offer training to teachers ...

TPR

TPR (Total Physical Response) is very important technique which enhance students achievement specially for English language teaching. It's  similar somehow to how baby learn the native language from his family.  The activities can be designed by using TPR. The main idea is to ask students to do some thing physically by voice commands, for example: you can use action verbs with any topic: - pick the red ball up, then walk to the board, paste it on the board - take the nose (picture show the nose), jump to the corner, through it in the basket. - fly to your friend MHD, put your hand on his head (body part) finally think how can you benefit of this technique.