This week was very good week for us. First we finished our planning for the units and we had what we want to do written on paper such as activities, quizzes and games. I think that planning in this way will be very helpful for us because now we have the ideas and we only have to apply what we planned using computers. The biggest challenge facing us is how to turn the text book into something electronic that motivates students and keep them interested in the lesson.
In addition, we watched some classes; I know that you think that is not our role to watch students. But I think that working in our school is like you are part of a community where all teachers help each other, there were some occasion that the principal had to watch some classes. Moreover, I believe that, watching students is helping us a lot because it teaches us how to control students and how to deal with misbehaved students.
By next week will attend some classes with our SMT and we will show her our plan for the units and hopefully she will like it and give us some feedback so we can start to apply what we planned.
This week was really short week; we only had 3 days to go to the school so there is not much to talk about. During these 3 days we started to work on the electronic book, we brain storm our ideas so we can start to apply them next week. Also, this week we met with another English teacher and she was very helpful and she gave us many ideas about how the lessons and how should they be delivered.
I hope that next we start to apply our ideas and start to create the lesson using computer. Our only concern is time but hopefully we will overcome this issue.
This was our second week at Mushiref Model School and it was very successful. In this week we met our SST and we discuss with her our project. We explained to her how this electronic book will be used in the classroom and she liked the idea. She gave us the Teacher English book so we can have an idea of how each lesson should be explained, we were glade that the teacher liked the idea and the fact that she is willing to apply this idea in her classroom.
Next week we will attend her classes to observe how she explains lessons. I hope that attending classes with our SST helps us to create an electronic book that is related to the teacher's way of explaining the lessons.
Also, this week we attended an English class, the teacher explained the lesson outside the classroom and the teacher did not use any books or paper, instead she used computers and games. I think that having classes like that is very important for the students because it helps them to change their daily routine and to refresh their mind.
I think that, this week was a good week for us and now we can start to work on our electronic book.
