Hello friends,
As Nicenet is down, I share my activity for one-computer classroom here on my blog.
This activity is for 1st year students of B. A. The class is of around 50 students. The class is divided into groups of four. The class is learning Simple past tense and this activity is for assessing what they have learnt.
1) The teacher comes prepared with a Wallwisher wall with different unrelated pictures on it. She explains to the class that they have to look at the pictures carefully and have to construct a short, meaningful story having a proper beginning, middle, and end. It should comprise of not more than 20 sentences structured mainly according to the given tense structure.
2) The class is given half an hour time. All the groups prepare their stories.
3) One of the students from the group rearranges the pictures according to the sequence of events in their story. Another student presents the story before the class. Alternatively, they can enact the story if they like.
4) For peer review of the group, they are given a rubric to assess all the groups. For individual assessment, teacher provides three sheets of checklist to all the group members where they assess the contribution of remaining three group members in the task.
I have created a rubric and a checklist for this task, but for some reasons beyond my comprehension I am not able to paste them in the table format on the blog page.
I hope this activity will be able to achieve the desired goal. Kindly share your comments on it.
Vinita.
As Nicenet is down, I share my activity for one-computer classroom here on my blog.
This activity is for 1st year students of B. A. The class is of around 50 students. The class is divided into groups of four. The class is learning Simple past tense and this activity is for assessing what they have learnt.
1) The teacher comes prepared with a Wallwisher wall with different unrelated pictures on it. She explains to the class that they have to look at the pictures carefully and have to construct a short, meaningful story having a proper beginning, middle, and end. It should comprise of not more than 20 sentences structured mainly according to the given tense structure.
2) The class is given half an hour time. All the groups prepare their stories.
3) One of the students from the group rearranges the pictures according to the sequence of events in their story. Another student presents the story before the class. Alternatively, they can enact the story if they like.
4) For peer review of the group, they are given a rubric to assess all the groups. For individual assessment, teacher provides three sheets of checklist to all the group members where they assess the contribution of remaining three group members in the task.
I have created a rubric and a checklist for this task, but for some reasons beyond my comprehension I am not able to paste them in the table format on the blog page.
I hope this activity will be able to achieve the desired goal. Kindly share your comments on it.
Vinita.
Hello Vinita,
ReplyDeleteI like your activity very much. I particularly like the idea to let the students shuffle and rearrange the order of the pictures on the Wallwisher. This enhances both autonomy and responsibility as they will have to make sure that the new order makes sense. A very good idea, indeed.
The rubrics obviously add to the autonomy.
As for not being able to post your charts, you can make a screen shot and insert them in the form of an image. Just a thought.
I am looking forward to more ideas,
Jasmina
Thanks Jasmina for your encouraging words. I'll surely try the screen shot trick.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Vinita