Team+8

Wednesday
English Bion - native English speaker Jay & Sadie - thoroughly trained in English language and teaching Bion - I find that trying to explain English grammar involves using language that is more complex than the language I am attempting to explain. Jay & Sadie - Writing is difficult to teach because Chinese students are unaccustomed to forming ideas in English. The organizational and lexical differences between Chinese and English present a demanding challenge in writing a cogent essay. To guide, encourage, and lead the students to a state of familiarity with the content. Video, Powerpoint presentations, visual aids, lecture, internet resources, Google Earth, Google Images, TOEFL & IELTS preparation materials, print articles, conversation, team work, and class discussion. Maintaining an attentive classroom environment. Maintaining a persistent learning habit in the students.
 * Design Studio: Reflect on your content and pedagogy**
 * With your Partner reflect on the following questions:**
 * What content areas do you teach?**
 * What content strengths do you have?**
 * What content do you find difficult to teach?**
 * What do you consider your role to be as a teacher?**
 * What instructional methods do you use as a teacher?**
 * What are some of the persistent problems you encounter in your instruction?**
 * With your partner, identify possible areas of overlap.**
 * Reflection Notes:**

Thursday
Guiding Questions I. What is the compelling question you would like your students to answer? Do you have any sub-questions to engage students? Sports History Music - lady gaga etc Fashion Drama Careers Bill Gates or Obama is giving a group of students $1 billion to something they love - BUT they must explain how they will use the money How will you communicate your favorite topic to English speakers for publication in a newspaper?

How will you produce a website on your favorite topic for an English speaking audience?

How can the Internet be used to aid students in expressing their interests while learning the English language?

II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question? It will utilize the internet as the primary medium of communication. III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI? By interest. For example, a group of students who are interested in sports could make a page that reports on sports events. IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI? They need to know how to use a computer and search the internet and they need to know what they're interested in. V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process? The project will be iterative in that the students will produce increasingly developed versions of their website at predetermined stages. Monitoring the sites will monitor their progress. VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process? Use check list to evaluate VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc). Checklist VIII. What technology tools will students use in creation and sharing of their PBI product? Website and internet


 * Reflection Notes:**

PBI Compelling Question:
How can the Internet be used to aid students in expressing their interests while learning the English language?

Content:
The topical content of this project will be determined individually by the students. The larger portion of new vocabulary and grammar will be taught in the classroom. Another portion of vocabulary will be project specific and researched by the students online. New literacy skills such as internet research, citation, and multimedia use will taught in class.

Learning Outcomes for this PBI:
SWBAT express their interests in English. SWBAT demonstrate proper use of vocabulary and grammar learned in class and on the internet. SWBAT use multimedia in a cogent fashion. SWBAT use the internet as a research tool. SWBAT properly reference their sources. Students will improve their ability to search for and synthesize useful and necessary information on the internet. Students will develop their creativity. Students will become familiar with the process of producing and publishing a website.

Method:
Students will produce a website focusing on an interest of their choice that they will update weekly with new articles and other media. Each week they will also make corrections to last week's update with the help of individual feedback given from the teacher.

Assessment:
See.

**Technology Tools Used:**
Internet
 * NOTE: A possible improvement to this project would be having a mirror project with a Chinese language class in the United States. With this a component could be added where students would be required to comment and discuss their pages and the American student's pages in the 'comments' sections of their websites.**