Dear All,
Week 6 brought some activities and tasks to work on.
This week the topic had been engaging students in large classes -something very pertinent to my teaching environment. Since in Government Colleges, those in cities especially, the usual class strength is around 60 plus. I have taught in Peshawar city colleges and always had large classes because English is a compulsory subject at all levels and the entire number of students on roll for any grade would attend it.
I go for pair activities mostly and have taken very useful tips from the readings of this week Teaching Large Classes II – Enhancing Learning by Engaging Students By Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw' about small group activities like 'Think-Pair-share'.
'Using Online Assessment in Face-to-Face Courses' enlisted the advantages of using blackboard for grading and feedback . We personally are aware of this Blackboard experience in this virtual class where we, although, dont receive face-to face instruction or verbal feedback.
Creating power point presentation is a very useful tool for teaching, it saves a lot of time for the tecahers to write on white/boards and the same presentation can be used for other classes too.
Yet, creating a master slide presentation was very very tough!!! I made some hyperlinks and experimented but it was not a very good effort and I hope to improve in it when I can spare more time for practice.
In practical teaching, the week had been very silent. It was a dormant week- Government announced holidays from Tuesday onward due to Moharram- religious rally were being held on roads by Shia sect zealots and many of the roads were blocked for the safety of people.
Mobile services were down for three days too.
Internet reception was down at intervals too.
And in Islamabad , the capital, it was curfew situation till Sunday.
I literally taught nothing because only few of the students turned up on Monday due to convenience problem.
Week 6 brought some activities and tasks to work on.
This week the topic had been engaging students in large classes -something very pertinent to my teaching environment. Since in Government Colleges, those in cities especially, the usual class strength is around 60 plus. I have taught in Peshawar city colleges and always had large classes because English is a compulsory subject at all levels and the entire number of students on roll for any grade would attend it.
I go for pair activities mostly and have taken very useful tips from the readings of this week Teaching Large Classes II – Enhancing Learning by Engaging Students By Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw' about small group activities like 'Think-Pair-share'.
'Using Online Assessment in Face-to-Face Courses' enlisted the advantages of using blackboard for grading and feedback . We personally are aware of this Blackboard experience in this virtual class where we, although, dont receive face-to face instruction or verbal feedback.
Creating power point presentation is a very useful tool for teaching, it saves a lot of time for the tecahers to write on white/boards and the same presentation can be used for other classes too.
Yet, creating a master slide presentation was very very tough!!! I made some hyperlinks and experimented but it was not a very good effort and I hope to improve in it when I can spare more time for practice.
In practical teaching, the week had been very silent. It was a dormant week- Government announced holidays from Tuesday onward due to Moharram- religious rally were being held on roads by Shia sect zealots and many of the roads were blocked for the safety of people.
Mobile services were down for three days too.
Internet reception was down at intervals too.
And in Islamabad , the capital, it was curfew situation till Sunday.
I literally taught nothing because only few of the students turned up on Monday due to convenience problem.
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