Module 5.5 Collaborative Project Plan

ENGLISH IS MY THING

SHORT SUMMARY

In today's world, one of the most common challenge is to teach and learn English. Students can not learn easily with classical methods. With teacher-centered and coursebook-centered methods,they remain silent and can't produce.ın this project,we will create Project-Based activities to teach four main skills- reading,listening,speaking,writing. We will use communicative,collaborative,creative methods in each activities and fullfill them with digital skills. We will use'Cultural Heritage' as a topic in our activities. This project will involve 15/16 year-old students from 5 different schools.

GOALS

*To search,learn,create, try and share effective methods in teaching English
*To improve PBL in English classes
*To make students and teachers communicate,collaborate and create 
*To raise the awareness about Cultural Heritage of own and other countries
*To improve the English level of students

*To improve students' ICT skills

WORK PROCESS (PLANNING)

    1.       Introducing our schools

a.       Showing the schools on zeemap

b.       Preparing a Google Earth Narrated Tour to show the environment of our schools( a tutorial will be shared on the page to teach how to do it.)

c.       Preparing and sharing a short video to introduce our schools

     2.       Choosing our Logo

a.       Setting a competition to select the best logo for our Project

b.       Voting the logos by using an app such as padlet, Google forms …etc.

     3.       Break the Ice

a.       Students will edit their profiles in Twinspace

b.       They will introduce themselves by using different ways like videos,posters or presentations via various apps.

c.       They will all share works on padlet and vote stars and comment on eachother.

     4.       What do you like most in English classes?

a.       A survey-about effective and fun activities in English lessons- will be prepared by the teachers collaboratively on Google docs

b.       It will be done by 50 students from each school

c.       The results will be shared on twinspace

d.       International groups will be formed in twinspace (in forum part) . They will discuss the results and prepare a poster to show the results

      5.       Let’s Listen

a.       As teachers, we will decide on a topic related to ‘Cultural Heritage’ and find a listening task about it.

b.       Do listening activities in a collaborative way( We can set a Skype meeting or live meeting on twinspace and one of the teachers read the text and others do the activities.)

c.       Then, students will be given a task to do in international groups (discuss the topic in the listening task , tell what is it like in their countries….)

d.       A mini survey will be given to see the effectiveness of the first activities

      6.       Let’s Read

a.       Every country will send a reading text and activities  to eachother about the theme(It will consist of a  cultural challenge or problem) Aloud reading will be videod and shared on Twinspace

b.       After the activities, international groups will find a solution or suggestions to this problem

c.       A mini survey will be given to see the effectiveness of the first activities

      7.       Let’s Write

a.       International groups will be given the beginning of a story about Cultural Heritage. They will be asked to complete it in a collaborative way.

b.       They will illustrate it by using an app like story jumper…..

c.       Groups will change the stories and they will write a poem for the story.

d.       A mini survey will be given to see the effectiveness of the first activities

      8.       Let’s Speak

                  a.       The students will discuss about a topic given in the forum then we will set a live chat to do a debate on the topic.

                  b.       Students will do interviews about this topic in their school to improve speaking

                  c.       A mini survey will be given to see the effectiveness of the first activities

      9.       Create your own Lesson

                 a.       Each group will prepare a lesson plan on the topic they are given

                 b.       They will select one of the plans and implement it in their classes/or any class at school or all together live.

                 c.       They will evaluate it via forum discussions.

         Evaluation and Dissemination ( EXPECTED RESULTS)

           

         -A final survey will be set to see the effectiveness of all activities.

         - The teachers will prepare a portfolio of lesson plans together (and e-book)

         - A poster will be prepared to show the effective Project Based activities (according to the survey results)

         - These e book and poster will be shared on educational platforms