WEEK 4 Records

This week was more difficult for me: maybe because we had more tasks, maybe because it is extremely hot in our place or because it is the middle of my summer vacation.

 We had to

1 Discuss reading/writing skill-building websites

2 Prepare a technology-enhanced lesson plan;

3 Describe the issues that technology may be able to help with as our Project Task 2;

4 Reflect the week's work on the blog as usual.

After finishing with my posts I prepared my Lesson Plan with Technology "Healthy Eating"

for 9-B (Intermediate level). As my colleagues admitted perhaps I took too many activities for 45-minute lesson. It's always a matter with me I want everything in one lesson. But sometimes it helps when you need to change something on the spot and we should definitely have some extra exercises.

Then I described the expected points technology can help my 10-B both teacher-oriented and student-oriented. I think I understood this task as my expectations from implementing technology not problems we can face.

And at the end I tried to compare my usual plan of the lesson with that of the technology-enhanced one.

There is a general rule for planning any lesson: "Prepare thoroughly. But in class, teach the learners – not the plan." It's true but I think it's necessary to prepare even more thoroughly for a technology-enhanced lesson. Preparing for the technology-enhanced lessons the teacher should analyze such aspects of the educational process:

-to determine the place and role of Internet technologies in the current program;

- to decide upon the form of a technology lesson (lecture, practical experiment, discussion, problem seminar, project, etc.);

-to think of the kinds of interaction between subjects of the process during preparation for the lesson, the lesson, reflection after the lesson;

- to work out criteria for evaluating students' knowledge during the lesson using the Internet technology;

- analyze educational resources;

-to give a reasonable estimate of the teacher's qualifications in the field of ICT, his ability to use Internet technology;

- to analyze the group of students in terms of their educational and computer skills and abilities.

I believe I've done all the tasks successfully.