Promoting Project-Based Learning
[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 11 | July 9, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036] Project-Based Learning has always had a significant place in the English Language classroom. Teachers soon realise that the…
ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 10
[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 10 | May 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036] Hi everyone, Here's the latest issue of ELTWeekly. ------------- When a Rubric Isn’t Enough Improving Student-Led Discussions What’s in a…
When a Rubric Isn’t Enough
[ELTWeekly Volume 10, Issue 10 | May 7, 2018 | ISSN 0975-3036]
“All right—any questions? No? Go!” I told my eighth-grade integrated science students as we began a lesson in which they were to make and support a claim about where in the classroom they should put the starting point for a marble roller coaster. Most got right to work. However, one student looked blankly at his paper, broken pencil in hand. Another stared into space. A third crafted something distracting out of paper.
What had gone wrong? They didn’t raise their hands when I asked if anyone had a question. How could I reach these students?