Patricia Shehu

Hello guys! This is the last time we’ll hear from each other. Why lie?   The begging was a bit hard and wasn’t expecting me to like writing to you and waiting for your feedback. This last post will be about the conference. I’ll be honest I wasn’t present due to some personal problems. But I’ve seen the girls when they practiced and last Tuesday. I have to say I had never seen such presentations which with the help of technology help our main purpose. Teaching. I saw the girl’s presentation which was very good and if an app like that would exist it would help a lot of taxi drivers to be more efficient in their job and to be able to communicate to their customers. Because when arriving here tourists have their first contact with the taxi drivers which they suggest hotels, places to go for lunch of dinner, what to see in a particular place. An app like this would save money and time because it’s on their mobile phones and they don’t have to leave the taxi. This is a main a...

Hello guys. Here I am today reflecting on CLL. Communicative language teaching is an effective method which is being used in foreign and second language teaching environments. It is an applicable method because it serves a communicative aspect to the language teaching and this is very important for the students in this environment in terms of gaining communicative skills. By this method fluency comes to surface by saving the language learning from bombarded accuracy aspect. By giving more importance to the communicative aspect of language, the students can perform intensive communicative skills and professionalize the fluency of the language they are learning. However, even though this enlightened way of teaching language has so many benefits, it should be applied appropriately in order to be effective and successful. For example, because it is a new trend in the EFL context, the teachers in Albania are afraid of applying it their lessons because they do not have enough education t...

Hey guys missed me? Last week I was a 7 th grade student and got a lesson about modal verbs. First of my teachers were great, one of them is a real teacher and she clearly did her job very good. I could see that she was a good teacher because she could control the classroom and emphasized what needed to be emphasized. Whereas the other teacher was like me, it was her first time teaching and she did pretty well. She tried her best and tried to do as the other teacher did. But we could see who was more prepared. What I found most interesting was their activities with the flash cards and the sentences we had to create, which were funny and also involved us a lot. They also wanted volunteers and tried to involve us as much as possible and not just choosing the same students all over again. All in all they were good. I would suggest that the PPP could have less information and some pictures rather than just too many information. Thanks guys!! From now on see you next wee...

Wellcome back! When I heard this word I immediately looked that up in google, and it turned out to be a seminar conducted over the internet. So kind of what we did a few weeks before, but with a little difference because this might be like a Skype call or a Face time thing. This whole society us as teachers should appreciate and embrace this kind of technology to profit from it and to make our students to get the best out of it. As a student I was a bit unwilling to cooperate in the beginning of this semester and things have changed now I like it and if I ever get an opportunity of teaching this to my future students I will exploit every approach possible to make my students feel the way I’m feeling right now and for them to be able to embrace this way of approaching technology. Some of the advantages are: 1.       Direct contact with your target group Thanks to the interaction during a webinar you gain insight into your target group. You can rea...

Wellcome back to my blog! Until now I have been faced to a lot of information, teaching methods and so many new things that honestly I had no idea they existed. Through this subject I have learned a lot of new things many of them I am eager to try in the future. In case you're unfamiliar, project-based learning is an instructional approach in which student learning within any given unit builds towards resolution of a complex, real-world problem. Project-based learning pushes teachers and students to think boldly about how work completed in class connects to the thorny and interesting world beyond school. Done well, it demands critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration among teachers, students, and community members. Project based learning transforms your lessons into real life scenarios, it’s incredibly engaging but requires a lot of time, evaluation and it’s important to reflect on the process. Not just the teacher, but the students as well. Without careful consid...

First of all I never came across of this word let along knowing the meaning. When I heard that last week I was scared and sad because I didn't know what was going to happen and how this class was going to go. Surprisingly it went better than I expected. Do you want to know why? I thought I wouldn't do anything cause I had no information about classes like this. But as the teacher posted constantly I became  clear and I enjoyed this as an experience. The video part was really interesting,and expressing our thoughts on that exact moment  was even more interesting. Having a child testing us on what teachers we are going to be made me realize many things of what i want to do a teacher. What I will do as a teacher is for sure applying this method for my students. As an ex-student who didn't had the opportunity to be part of classes like this I will give my students to experience this kind of self-learining to improve their skills in online learning. I would like to...