WebQuest: A good option to teach.

Hi everybody, first of all thank you for visiting my blog. In this week I've searched about the WebQuest, well this basicaly it is something I learnt before in the ENLEF (Escuela Normal de Licenciatura en Educación Física) because I saw many teaching styles, and WebQuest it is very similar to Guided Discovery and Problem Solving; where you as a teacher have to ask to your students look for the solution of a problem by their own ways, those activities will improve the cognitive skills of students and also their autonomy because they will work as fast as they want.

All the activities that students have to do are by internet, they have to search information, analyze it and think about possible solutions, in that way they can learn to make comparisons, induce and deduce the main points of every article they find.

I think this tool it is really helpful because students have to be more responsible about they work, actually, this is the method that my teacher use with me and my classmates because she assign us the topic, the problem or situation, and we have to investigate and solve the task, this is a good way to have a meaningful learning and make students more independent. The bad side that could be presented is, that students forget the task because as we know the internet as can provide information also can provide distractions for everybody, and other point is that students can be confused about the objectives of the assignment.

I found that WebQuest very interesting because I love extreme sport and this website talk about them and also there are some exercises to practice.

http://www.michellehenry.fr/extreme.htm

Well, this is all for today, I hope you enjoy the information and be useful for you.

Rubrics and Alternative Assessment

Hi everybody, this week I have learnt about Rubrics and Alternative Assessment, what I think is a very interesting topic because, as we know sometimes students repeat the teaching method or style as they learnt when become teachers, that can be a problem when the teaching style is too mechanic, is not focused on students needs and do not exist a progressive learning.

As future teachers we have to be worried about how students feel in the classroom and the lessons because each pupil has his own way and time to learn, knowing that we have to dose the quantity of information in every class in order to get a progressive success and a meaningful learning.

Rubrics are excellents tools that can help us to graduate and also evaluate the students' learning, in that way we can complete our objetives for every class to get successfully results and more prepared students, they could feel confidence in the class and work as a big team.