Working on a Dream...

All these weeks I have been thinking on what to work out as Project,   I want my students to get more involved on the English use, I want them to use it more than in my class only, they only practice it on my class, and they forget what are they learning for the next class, I told them about the rubric, and they like the idea, they are very receptive, I create a blog to show them other alternative tools to communicate by the web. I am testing them in order to shape my project. for the last month of class   I am telling them that the asses is going to be different, we are going to evaluate by rubric,  we are going to work in teams (4) I am going to give them some topics to work, the general idea is that they begin to work on something that make them work , think, use  and participate in English, as they are going to be working in teams, I want  to check (twice a week) how they deal with this task, the teams will make an exposition, they can chose a topic and the way they want to show it to the class, last week I  begin all this, for the next I hope to advance in the methodology, and to figure it out clearer than now,

My idea is to push them to work in teams, work on an exposition to the class, and to use a rubric to assess the exposition.  They can do a PP presentation or some other ways:  charts, theater. But I believe that PP is going to win, and as a collateral effect they are going to think more in English and of course work on English.

I hope you find this clear,  keep in mind two things, my students are 12-14 years old,  and not  very computer skilled, that is why  I do not want to overheat their minds (and mine on the way) with a lot of tasks or a complex project.

I am planting something, if it bonds, I may have better students for the next year (this scholar year is almost over in Mexico) or perhaps I am just working on a dream…….. Hope it come true!