TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS

Rubric

An instrument that will help you become a fairer evaluator: A rubric is commonly defined as a tool that articulates the expectations for an assignment by listing criteria, and for each criteria, describing levels of quality.

Technique	Instruments
Systematic observation	Check list
	Scales
	Rubrics
	Classroom diaries
	Differential semantic scales
Oral Evaluation	Instruments
	Presentations
	Dialogues
	Role-Plays
	Debates
Practical Exercises	Mind map
	Concept map
	Sematinc map
	Gowin Heuristic V
	Case Study
	Project
	Dairies
	Portfolio
	Essays
Written tests	Development tests Theme tests Interpretative test
	Objective test T/F- Y/N Multiple choice Ordering Matching Completion

Book BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER: EIGHT INNOVATIONS THAT WORK

http://sman78-jkt.sch.id/ebooks/Books/Becoming%20a%20Better%20Teacher.pdf

I learn

What I learn? There is a hard work to do, but it's necessary to apply all the techniques that we saw in the course. It's necessary to do a good reading comprehension exercise, and establish the correct moment to apply a technique and that depends of the objective of the activity.

How to improve your reading comprehension exercise

What to do	What to avoid
Improve your reading exercise	Overloading
Always think about it when asking/planning the question	To ask for the impossible
Think about time (state it)	Favouring one type of question
Ask question that demand the 3 levels of reading	Favouring on level of reading
Remember that the pre-reading session should be done with your students. What types of activities would suit your classes? One -on-One Speaking (Student- Small group or team based oral work Full-class discussions (Teacher-or-student-led) Speeches and presentations Oral examinations How to make speaking activities work? Plan ahead Be clear with yourself about your goals Write clear and complete assignment. Identify goals or aims of the presentation Establish a reasonable time length Clarify all parts of the assignment Highlight relevant due dates Detail criteria for evaluation 4. Prepare students for success 5. Assess or evaluate task to help your students improve

Why are instructions important?

The purpose of give clear instructions is: Motivation for student

How make instructions?

• Clear language: Simple is good
• Logical sequence.
• Concise: Clear and short
• Precise: Specific, the relevant aspect of the task
• Illustration/demonstration
• Checking:
• Don’t patronize students: Do you understand?/Have I made myself understood?
• Time limit.

How make activity

1. Plan the task
2. Prepare instructions
3. Get learner’s attention
4. Be assertive
5. Use visual, written clues, gestures, body language.
6. Demonstrate
7. Check
8. Hand out the worksheet

When teachers give clear instructions

• Students feel more secure in the lesson
• Student's confidence in their knowledge and skills increase
• Students can begin/do tasks faster
• Students can be more independent
• Learning time increases
• Classroom management improves
• Lesson aims might be achieved more easily

Giving Instructions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOEMd8uenVI

Type of task and question

Type of tasks

Identify the main idea

Get specific information
Identify vocabulary
Establish comparisons
Apply prior knowledge 

Give opinion

Type of Question

• Yes/No Question: They can be answered with either yes or no.
• Open Question: They are the most common way to check literal understanding of the text, reorganizing information on the text, making personal responses and prediction.
• True or False: They can be answered with either true or false.
• Multiple choice: They can be a wh-question with a choice
• Labelling: They consist of an image with a number of textual labels listed.
• Matching: They consist of a column of key words presented of the left side and a column of options placed on the right side.

How can I use what I learned in the next semester?

It's very important to be a modern teacher and obviously a CLIL teacher, but if I want to get this objective, I have to use some strategies, I mean, if I use a reading, I need to follow the next steps:

1. The purpose of reading
2. Activities according the level of reading
-Activities for pre-reading.
-Activities for while-reading.
-Activities for post-reading

I learn Reading Strategies.

There are strategies reading according purpose of reading and levels of reading:

Pre-reading: It's connecting with predict and visualize, one technique can be

• Read the title and imagine what the text might be about or look at illustration and try to guess how they are related to the text.

While reading: It has relationship with connect, question and clarify, one technique can be

• Use a dictionary and take notes

Post reading: It's connect with evaluate, one technique can be

• Classify the words according to their meanings or summarizing the main ideas.

What I learn today?

The levels of reading comprehension, there are three levels of reading comprehension,

1. Reading on the line or literal: Understanding and remembering.
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   His aim is to find meaning directly in the text or find information.
2. Reading between the lines or inferential: Applying and Analyzing.,
1. Through this level the readers interpret what is in the text.

3. Reading beyond the lines or critical: Evaluating and creating.
1. The readers move beyond the text to connect with their own experiences.

Is this useful for my class for the next semestre?

Today we learned about the process of reading (Pre-reading-Active reading and Post reading) if I want that my student learnt I must choose academic readings and teach them how is useful for laboral life. 

What I learnt Today?. Lesson of today turns around two topics: First, the important of comprehension reading and Second the purpose of reading. 

Important of comprehension reading: Reading it's a process, you don't only recognize words or elements, Reading is like a trip: If you're looking something important in the text you travel to find what you need to increase your knowledge. 

Purpose of reading: That depends of reading profile: if you are a reading lover you read for fun or to study, if you're a student you read for look information or for increase your vocabulary, but if you read for comprehend some academic text your propose is to make a summary.