lunes, 12 de noviembre de 2007

Reward and motivation


On the 8th November I went to the school after long time and I was with the students of 1st ESO in the computer room. I was with my classmate and two teachers and I noticed that when students go to this room, the classroom is a mess at the beginning, because they don’t know what they have to do, they can’t find the website where they have to work… This lesson was dedicated to a grammar topic about the use of a/an/some. The students had to do some exercises online and afterwards, they had to write the answers down in a piece of paper. I realized that I feel more comfortable with them and I’m more able to explain them the questions that they have.

On the other hand, I noticed that some students have problems to translate sentences, because their level of English or Catalan is not very high and some of them feel a little bit embarrased for this reason. I tried to make light of this problem and helped them with the vocabulary.


The students were very motivated and Núria told us the reason of this at the end of the lesson. The children try to do all the exercises and finish very soon, because she rewards them with a sticker with the following statements: Fantastic! You are the best! or Good job!

A nice idea…

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