It’s All About the Climb
Nov 9/20
Today was my second lesson using Nearpod. It went better than last week. I felt much more comfortable knowing that this type of lesson would be successful. I was able to relax while I was teaching.
In reviewing the students’ writing from last week, I identified some common errors in the structure of the introductions they had written, and tailored my lesson around making sure they had a solid grounding in academic essay structure and how using the structure would make their writing easier and get them better IELTS grades. I made a pdf file that was a visual aid about the essay structure that also showed timings and word counts for each paragraph for the IELTS test.
After a writing exercise, I had a collaborative board activity that asked the students to anonymously identify what they were still unsure of in terms of the IELTS writing task. There were quite a few different concerns and I was able to address them all one by one.
It was a slightly slower paced lesson today. I think the most successful part of the lesson was taking the time to listen to student concerns and give direct and practical answers.