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Variety  &  DIVERSIFICATION: To increase the MOTIVATION and performance in the class you need a  variety  and DIVERSIFICATION . While keeping this in mind, I tried to use Quizlet live today for vocabulary and grammar review. I was surprised by the involvement and responses of my learners. It promoted class participation and sense of competition in my class to a great extent .
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First Presentation of My Students at Jabria 2020 In my speaking and listening class, I encouraged my students to present on the very first day and then I asked them to furnish feedback to the presenter in groups. initially, they were reluctant, but watch the videos and decide about that their presentations. First Presentation:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AA2uPchZooWFw4d-a2FDji-Tj-91DZxx/view?usp=sharing Second Presentation: Third Presentation: Fourth Presentation:
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Group Writing Task writing is quite difficult task when it goes tom feedback for teacher. In EFL setting teachers usually avoid writing task because it usually takes quite enough time to give individual student feedback on  his writing tasks. Following steps shift writing task into enjoyable, productive, easy and constructive feedback for learners.  STEP 1: Put students in mixed groups and keep on changing students each time you do new writing task. STEP 2: Don't forget to assign writing tasks like group leader, time keeper, and writer etc. Also visit each group if they have any query. Don't bother them while they are performing the task.  STEP 3 : I usually have 30 students in my class so I have to give feedback to 6 group. When I give group feedback, they usually take it very seriously and even sometime they start discussing ideas right then and their with each other and with me as well.    STEP 4 : After feedback, give grades to good group a
Lesson Objective:  I can gather information and ideas to role play a job interview.   I always try to OVER ESTIMATE my learners and they meet my expectations. Today my students were reluctant to perform the role play for above mentioned ILO and then I put them in corner and they surprised me with the performance. See the videos below.                                                              GROUP 1 GROUP 2  GROUP 3  GROUP 4 
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   SELF EFFICACY & STUDENT'S AGENCY          Agency or self-efficacy or we may call it self-concept; they are not novice in the field of pedagogy. 100 years ago there were experiments in  Winnetka, Illinois, USA on mastery based learning   and they saw great result s, but they wouldn’t able to scale it because it was logistically difficult.  The teacher had to provide different worksheets to every student,   based on-demand assessments to carter the need of every learner. Now a day, after the easy access of modern gadgets and internet, if the teacher is depriving a learner from mastering the concept and not exercises his agency, I believe the teaching community is committing heinous crime. This is all based on the idea that if we let our learners tap into their potential by mastering concepts, by being on the idea to exercise agency over their learning. Being an ESL Teacher for past 18 years, I reached to the hypotheses that the students best learn when the play with