A hard brainstorm is going ot fall.

This fifth week that is almost over, was for me a refreshing exercise of knowledge, at first the readings about PBL , the web quests, and alternative assessments  show me that I can do more for my students, encouraging them to look after their own knowledge, I am afraid it could be a major task in ELT but not on Biology (in Spanish) I don’t know for sure  if next course I’ll be teaching in first grade again,  but what I know is that I will work more on this PBL methodology. Rubrics are used at advanced courses in Mexico and at the university, but the implementation on my level (secondary school) is not very clear at the moment, Jody is right, perhaps the only stressed about use this tool is me, next week I will talk about it with my students,  (they’re going to kill me) but the same thought came to me when I decided to read them some chosen poetry. And here I am alive and teaching!,(and they know Robert frost’s poetry, yeahh! ) I am skeptical but I won’t deny that this tool sooner or later are going to be a standard in education, and I have faith on my students, they can reach good positions, they can aspire to a better education, and if it is on me,  I’ll give them the tools I am learning to use. Web quests are interesting tools, I am going to work on one for my summer advanced course (Biology) but, who can tell?, maybe I change my mind and I use it on both, English and biology as well .

 I leave at the end the mention of the most interesting discussion at this moment on the course: the brainstorming about problems!  How many interesting tips, advices, and methods!! Thank you all.