Hi everyone,
How have you been? This week we have read articles mostly dealing with benefits of using technology for instruction. The most important is we have to write a technology-enhanced lesson plan. Let me honestly tell you that we have never written lesson plans at our university; I learned how to write lesson plans when I was a university student. Actually, we do have lesson plans but they are the intrinsic ones, in our mind and we do not need to submit the plans to the university academic section. We know what we are going to do in a class because we have relied on course descriptions which we have to set contents accordingly. Mostly, we are encouraged to produce instructional materials by ourselves. Personally, the material quality cannot be compared to commercial ones but ours suit the students. The lesson plan model of the University of Tennessee directs me to be more professional in my career. My technology-enhanced lesson plan proposed in nicenet might not be best because I have never used the Internet for my teaching. However, it is my first step for further plans. I do agree that planning the instruction is much more difficult than delivering the instruction as mentioned in "Lesson plans" from the Innovative Technology Center at the University of Tennessee http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/lesson_plan.html
I think the new generation of teacher of English should take technology-enhanced lesson plan into consideration since they are surrounded with technologies. Perhaps they can easily apply them to language instruction. What do you think?
Best,
Moo
I think that lesson plans are a good way to organize our toughts regarding lesson planning. And I think that from time to time and obviously at the beginning of our teaching career we must describe objectives, timing, vocabulary, development of lesson, assessment, content and language to be taught. Then, with time, we can and we should flow more naturally and having those elements in mind it will not be necessary to write all the details. We must enjoy our job rather than stress out.
ReplyDeleteHi Moo,
ReplyDeleteUndoubtedly, our teachers to-be will have an even bigger challenge with the new generations of students who will be much more computer and technology literate than us.
But in my opinion, it's not simply using technology because everyone is in it. We teachers must carefully select the tools we want to apply having in mind the real potential for language learning and teaching.
Technology is amazingly evolving and this brings along many challenges for teachers.
Cecilia