Friday 20 September 2013

Individualised lesson materials for students

I am feeling like I am a fence sitter sometimes. On the one hand there is the expectation of my supervisors and parents to educate students fulfilling the following requirements:

  • keep teacher focussed lecturing and phases of instruction short
  • provide working materials for my students which challenge and also support them on an individualised base
  • create or use teaching materials which satisfy today's possibilities (digital publishing)
  • work sheets and instructions are providing an individually fine-tuned amount of support, possibilities of further studies, etc.

On the other hand there is my life and the fact that there is a 24h day and I want to spend a decent amount of time with my family and my own little son.

Well, let me say that some things fell into place for me combining those expectations with tools that I have been using for years now. Overall time from thinking about all the point in having created a PowerPoint that can be used as a presentation during lessons, a base for an online lecture, to create 3 differentiated worksheets and for a debrief at the end of the lesson....

20 minutes - and let me add that I chose to do it in English as well - and you will be able to see and hear that it is not my first language. At the end of it all there is still the possibility to create a flash from this as well.

From picking a topic till saving the endproduct 20 minutes, i.e. the time it took my son to drink 8 ounces of formula milk.

You can do this as well - let me teach you how to - by hiring me for a workshop at your school.
:)

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