As a response to "CV of Failures"Am I flawless? Have I succeeded in everything I wanted to achieve? Let me tell you something about my life. I would try to be honest as much as I can. I am a mother to two excellent boys. Sometimes, they don’t have lunch so they need to eat fast food. There are days when I don’t see them at all but only talk to them on the phone. Sometimes I feel I’m just a provider but when I hug them and talk and laugh with them I feel like their friend. So am I a bad mother? I am a wife to endlessly understanding man. There are a lot of sleepless nights when I’m on my computer instead being by his side. Sometimes he gets angry and asks me if I work for NASA and not in school. Thank god he hasn’t divorce me, yet. So, am I a bad wife? I am a teacher to wonderful children. There are students who do not achieve good grades on the assessments even thou they are English language speakers. Also there are classes when I am bored because I didn’t spent more time to be creative and make the class more interesting. And when I am bored you can imagine how my students feel. So, am I a bad teacher? There are a lot of flows I can add to this list but should I name it as personal or professional CV. I totally disagree with the distinguished professor since I don’t feel good if I just make this list and then stop. I would like to call it a list since it is not CV for me, but it is just a starting point to create my personal and professional development plan. I know that succeeding in targeted goals is not always up to me. But on the other hand I can say I was not good enough to predict the outcome at that time. I just love to say that I have a life time in front of me to achieve every goal I have set but I need to think about my priorities. Today I am going to be a great mum because my sons need me. Tomorrow I’m going to be a great wife because my husband needs me and the day after tomorrow I’m going to be a great teacher because my students need me. Sometimes I can be everything in one day even thou I am not a super women. I’m just a person with needs and desires who never gives up. Don’t you feel the same or am I the only one. P.S. I just love this song.
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This was shared by Andrea Ullrich on the PBL facebook page and I love it!
I always choose a quote to start explaining something to myself. So this is my quote for today.
I’m not quite sure if I’m on the right track but here is my plan. Just to remind myself - the question or the statement should be open-ended, engage and inspire students by creating curiosity, be aligned to your learning goals, and at the same time be non-Googleable. So my driving statement will be “winter wonderland or a nightmare”. I think of it as a problem solving -What can we do to make a winter wonderland? This question should be open-ended, engage and inspire students by creating curiosity, be aligned to your learning goals, and at the same time be non-Googleable. Types of challenging questions, problems or statements
Since I teach English language I like to classify my curriculum according the topics we are learning about. Almost every time I have a project that comes out from each topic. So I have different classes. Usually I start introducing the project topic and outline the learning outcomes. During my classes I integrate entrepreneurial learning which is almost equal to PBL. But usually I have problem to set the entire project in my classroom because I don’t have adequate equipment to do that, so I improvise or I give some parts for homework. Then another problem emerges, parents. They hate when their children have projects for homework because they feel that they are the ones who should do the project. At this point, parents and students are not interested in the learning process but they only think about the assessment. I try to explain the students the importance of doing the project but then when they go home their parents misguide them and I am at the beginning once again. So, it takes time to handle this problem but I don’t give up. There are some students who have already learned that this method is interesting and fun. They have developed their critical thinking skills and became creative in problem solving approach. I strongly believe that this method, along with other methods, will prepare my students for future and that they will become productive citizens and successful young people.
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