Activities
Following is the task you will undertake as part of this section. You should have already worked through the material in the section. Note that you are welcome to use a different tool - remember that it is not the tool, but what you are trying to accomplish that is important. The activity/task should aim to help the students practice and improve her language proficiency/ability. Place links to the website/tool and the assignment writeup in your Developer’s Notebook.
Collaborating
Collaboration is widely regarded as essential for success in the real world outside of school, but often gets subsumed by competition within school. Suggest a way or process by which you might demonstrate the importance of meaningful and successful collaboration to your students. Then create an assignment that incorporates it.
Take some time to consider the following:
- How can you differentiate this assignment? How can you make his assignment cater to different learning styles?
- How does your assignment description promote inclusion? Does the wording favor certain groups? Might the wording alienate members of some groups?
- Double check your assignment to ensure that any assumptions about prior knowledge do not disenfranchise traditionally underserved groups or favor other groups.