Week 3 - Development

Assignments:

• English Reflections: "My Reflections" (pages 16 - 19)
• Participation Self-Assessment 1 (U2U, pages 13, 284)
• Self-assessed Conversation  (U2U, page 17)

1. Attendance Register: Pass this around the room, so that students can enter their names and other details. Class Journal
2. Math Puzzle Student Workbook page 13
3. Participation Self-assessment (1) Student Workbook pages 13, 284, Class Journal, pages
4. Personal Profile Student Workbook, page 14
5. Learning Contract Student Workbook, page 15
6. Study Supplies: 20 Questions Student Workbook, page 16
7. Self-assessed Conversation (1) Student Workbook, page 17
8. English Reflections: "My Reflections" (pages 16 - 19)

• Math Puzzle This is a valuable student-centered activity focusing on listening, comprehension and problem-solving.
• Participation Self-assessment A note appears to the students at the bottom of page 13 of the Workbook. Students assess their participation to date (WB p. 284), and mark this assessment in the Class Journal, (in the column headed “1st”). The Class Journal needs to be circulated during this (and the next) lesson for this to occur.
• Personal Profile This is a pair activity. Allow students to take their time on this, since it can lead to extended conversation. When individual pairs finish, they can form groups of four, and go into the next activity.
• Learning Contract The teacher needs to review and sign the contracts as they are completed. Allow students to proceed at their own rate.
• Study Supplies: 20 Questions This activity promotes Q & A discourse among the students. Sample language reviews Yes/No questions and Study Supply vocabulary, which will be useful to students.
• Peer-assessed Conversation This is an important session, since it introduces students to oral assessment criteria, which they can use in observing their own conversation skills. Awareness of these criteria is important for the students, as they take on responsibility for learning. Students will perform these peer-assessments a number of times during the course, so the whole of this lesson is given to comprehension and practice (speaking and assessing). The first Peer-assessment chart is on page 15. Other Peer-assessment charts are on pages 269 - 271 of the Student Workbook.
   

The professor is a learning resource, so don't be afraid of asking questions. This is the period when you can bring up any problems that are troubling youl There will always be problems, confusion and misunderstandings in any course of study, so use this time to clear them up. The professor is there to help, counsel and advise.