Work with AEPE students in April

         During this month, we could organize 12 lessons for AEPE students and a meeting in Native Speaker Club. Our students presented two demonstrative lessons and project enhancement activity.http://animoto.com/play/Td5KcHB77h7lBJ0wEIdEOQ

AEPE students continue their learning process and develop their knowledge and skills. They prepared individually to present their teaching philosophy(see the previous post), their work in the classroom, and their perspective future plans at schools/Universities.  Students presenting their speeches achieved the fulfillment of the 3 project in speeches “Get to the point” and they did it successfully. AEPE students  began to think  about their 

ways of teaching for students with different learning styles   and this process is very important for me as for facilitator as I want to know  what are my students’ thoughts on their teaching, in order to motivate and help them to learn more. At our classes we are using “New English file” book and other resources to improve grammar and vocabulary. 

Coordinator of the program supported in getting access to computer lab with access to Internet at the Faculty. AEPE students created their 

e-mail account and a blog page. My Students need a support in order to learn better to use sites here they can work on blogs and publish their posts, write comments to each other, and as the result to create   a teaching e-portfolio.  They can use this portfolio in their future work, and present their work at their working places.  At this month, I could present to my students ABCD method to write objectives and we discussed in details the lesson format with the series of activities that are appropriate to different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.  Students on practice presented such activities or one lesson and reflected on all of them through the prism of Six Hats De Bono.

Demonstrative lessons allow all AEPE students to learn on practice, analyze and reflect through the feedback after the lesson on the activities organized for students and on preparation and organization of the lesson by the teacher. At this month it was a turn for Aselya and Malika. Aselya presented the topic “Healthy and unhealthy food” for 7^th grade students at school #52.  Students divided food on different categories: fruits, vegetables, drinks and discussed the type of food that is beneficial for people and harmful. Students were involved actively into discussion, conducted short dialogues, and guessed words in the puzzle.  

 Together with AEPE students we also observed the lesson “Importance of money in our life” that was prepared by Malika for the 1^st -level students at Business and Management Faculty.  Discussions, sharing ideas through the group work, matching currencies, true and false activity were very interesting for students there. Positive learning environment and student-centered approaches of work were motivating for students to participate actively and to learn with enthusiasm.

It gets to be “a tradition” at our program to make in input into community and AEPE students could organize an interesting Project Enhancement activity for students of different faculties. The topic for discussion was about the importance of money in our life.   All students took a turn to organize sessions during the project. They presented ideas through the PPT, playing with students in the economical game-auction, and discussing the topic on different questions associated with this topic.

At the Native Speaker Club, Paula presented very interesting and actual for our days topic “Resume and CV”. Students could compare and contrast them, and to learn more about writing Resume.  

 Of course, we know that there are so many points that we have to “polish” through the program:  students  of AEPE program have to learn better about organization of activities at the lesson; give instructions to the students; present PPT by using rules for presentation; etc. We like the most that we become to be a good team of teachers who shared their learning and teaching experience to improve our studying and work.Our next plans looks ambitious with the wishes to organize a photo contest, to present the most interesting demonstrative lessons; to create teachers' e-portolio on blogs, and so on.... and we hope that the dream comes true!