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Distance Learning Foundation and US Embassy RELO Office
Session #3Unlocking Learners’ Voices
3 February 2011
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Review of Sessions #1 and #2
• Unlocking learners’ voices• Helping learners develop their voice in written
English• Helping learners develop their voice in spoken
English• Assignments for Shei Sanchez (February 17,
March 2, March 16)
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Overview of Session #3
• Blogs with text and audio• A review of rubrics for writing and
speaking• How to create your own rubric• Critique of rubrics
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Let’s look at some Blogs
• http://www.dioenglish.com/space.php?uid=6325&do=blog&view=me
• A thread about “how to learn to write in English”.
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Another blog
• http://oupeltglobalblog.com/
A blog for English language teachers from Oxford University Press.
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A look at the DLF Blog
• http://dlfenglishtraining.blogspot.com• E-mail: [email protected]• Password: t1234567
How can we use this space?
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Create your own rubric for writing or speaking
Objective Excellent Good Unacceptable
Objective #1 Criteria for excellent
Criteria for good Why it is unacceptable
Objective #2
Objective #3
Objective #4
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4 common areas for rubric assessment
• Content / ideas• Organization• Style / voice• Conventions
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Content / Ideas
• Are the ideas original?• Does the writer or speaker make
their perspective clear?• Does the writer or speaker refer to
other’s ideas?
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Organization
• Is there an introduction, body and conclusion to the text?• Does the text have coherence?
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Style / Voice
• Is there a good use of vocabulary and other features to make the piece interesting?
• Do we have a sense of the writer’s own perspective and their opinion?
• Are they taking in to account the audience?
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Conventions
• Grammar• Word choice• Punctuation• Sentence structure
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Create your own rubric for writing or speaking
Objective Excellent Good Unacceptable
Objective #1 Criteria for excellent
Criteria for good Why it is unacceptable
Objective #2
Objective #3
Objective #4
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Fill in the rubric
• The assignment is a short persuasive essay on how Thailand should better prepare for flooding.
• Think of the students you teach.• What rubric would you create for this
assignment and your students?
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Sharing and comparing
• Now get in to groups of 4 and share the 2 rubrics your group has created.• How are they similar?• How do they differ?
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Creating a rubric for a blog
• Use the same template• If your students are participating in a
blog (oral and written) what will be on your rubric?
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Critique of rubrics
• What do the critics say?• Rubrics were created to make sure that
different teachers agreed upon assessment.• But individual teachers SHOULD have
individual responses.• There is no way to “lock-step” assessment.
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Assignments
• For February 17: Send a sample of student persuasive writing to Shei by February 13.
• For March 2: Let Shei know that you will bring (or send) a sample of student persuasive speaking.
• For March 16: Have at least one student post some kind of writing or speech on the DLF Blog Spot.
• Shei’s e-mail address: [email protected]
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Thank you!
• Until next time. . .• Thank you.• E-mail me ([email protected]
) or Shei ([email protected]) with any questions.