Strategy

The need to strategize arose.Reading about learning styles and which technologies work best with them was exciting.I learnt about verbal/linguistic, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic,musical/logical learning styles name it.I realized that I make these applications unconciously and now with conciousness they must be put in their right places.These tools will create variety and enhance interest in learning for my students.

Enhancing learning by engaging students was very important to me.I learnt that the use of technology tools enable certain techniques which are good for handling large classes.Collaboration,small group informal learning activities,concept maps,small group extended learning activity and many more are just the right assets.An application of these in my lessons will enhance listening,speaking,reading, writing and grammar.

Rubrics!Wonderful and quite different from the norm in Kenya's education system.I have learnt that there are many other ways of assessing students work. I plan to apply it on writing and speaking .This is indeed an eye opener.

My project? Excitment greeted it.A different approach.I used two lessons for reading therefore this was done in class and all had a chance to read.(" The River Between" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o chapter 7 and 8). The students then listened to the analysis on the audio tape and discussed questions I had prepared and given out earlier.The answers were diverse hence the need to illustrate from the novel.The discussions were lively.Some learners were not aggressive because they were still trying to catch up with the new method. So we repeated the same on Saturday for familiarization and preparation on writing the summaries of the said chapters. We are looking forward to more lessons with critical minds.I can't wait.