REFLECTIONS ON ASSIGNMENT 2

Love nature and everything in it.... Nature is the source of serenity and knowledge... Love nature as you love yourself

Reflections on Assignment 2.

• For the second assignment, we were required to select one skill in CALL. Then, needed to include the skill we had chosen in our lesson plan and make it the skill we want out students to acquire or improve.
• Our group was interested in writing skill and so we chose it. Doing this assignment was like putting us in the shoes of teachers as we needed to come up with a lesson plan for a specific class, level of student, school/university, time etc. It was great to plan for our “students” what we want them to learn and in doing this, many aspects had to be considered. It was also interesting to see our classmates came up with brilliant ideas for their classes and how they involved the use of computer and technology in helping their “students” develop the skills they chose.
• To make our lesson plan, we first looked at the samples of lesson plans from the internet. In making a lesson plan, we realized that time was the most important thing to consider. We have to make sure that everything we want to do in the class can fit the time. This is why we chose to concentrate our lesson plan on making a skeletal outline and producing only one argument of an argumentative essay.
• We think it is not easy actually to plan a lesson for a class even though it is just a class of a couple of minutes. It takes longer time to prepare materials for a class than utilizing the things in the class.
• After we were given the task, we started to observe the way our lecturers run their classes as well as recall how our school teachers used to teach us. We went through course outlines as they are more or less like lesson plans but with less details and not precise.
• We thought it would be easier for us to plan our lesson for intermediate school students rather than students of higher levels or of university. The higher the level of students, the more complicated the lesson would be, and the more difficult it would be for us to make a lesson plan.
• Through this assignment, we know that a good lesson plan must be well-prepared and well-planed for a successful outcome. This assignment has developed our planning and organizing skills.