A Teaching Practice Log
TEACHING AND LEARNING LOG
This semester I had my #SchoolExperienceProgram done at a private school in Jakarta. Even though l could not come to the school directly and had to do the teaching fully online, I still learned so many things. One of them is exploring many teaching tools. Here, I will share with you what teaching tools I used.
1. #nearpod
It is a tool that can be found in Google Slides' add-on. Using this, I can make my slides more interactive and engaging as it allows me to add question & answer boxes, polling, matching pairs, and it is even able to gamify my quizzes.
Based on my observations, the students in my class are easily overwhelmed with the online learning so I decided to use the gamifier feature called "Time to Climb" to make the class more fun. I made the questions myself to make sure that they will cover the lesson objectives, then let #nearpod turn them into a gamified quiz. In the quiz, students can choose what characters they want to appear as, they also can see their peers who have climbed up the furthest, and this can motivate students to do the quiz better. #nearpod also provides us with the report of the session so it is easier for us to review the quiz results. We, teachers, even do not need to worry about the devices the students need because #nearpod only asks students to use one single device.
2. #padlet
I used #padlet for a summative assessment about writing a procedure text. After done covering the materials and doing practices with the class, I asked the students to write their own procedure text then post it on #padlet. I also let them give feedbacks to their peers by posting comment(s) under their peers' post. This, can help students to learn both from their peers' posts and comments.
There are actually many features to be explored in #padlet and one of them is the feature that enables us, teachers, to review students' postings before publishing them on the board. It can help us prevent unwanted posts such as posts that did not meet the requirements, posts that are not related to the lessons, or maybe just to give students personal feedback before finally publishing it.
What to change or add?
In this SEP, I learned that using gamification in my lessons might make the class more fun, but some students in my class evidently could not follow the flow of the class well. In the future, setting the timer longer and guide them during the quiz may help.
In addition, I could not use the feature in #padlet that I mentioned earlier because of the time limits and it turned out that some of my students' posts did not fulfill the requirements. In the future, I will definitely use this feature to make my lessons more effective and meaningful.
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