Who is SCHOLAR for?

Rachel Tsai

St George’s School for Girls

For teachers1. Classroom Presentation and Class Exercises• Materials: ready-made, varied, interactive, self-correcting • Tests• Differentiated individual or group work • Set as Cover Work

2. Homework• Set as Homework – log in, know if and when they do it!

3. Progress reports & assessment• Progress Reports for class and individual students in detail, printable• Tests built-in• Automatic Recording of Test Marks - printable Parents’

evenings/reports

For students• Independent Learning - for study & revision

• Homework – do it online, variety of activity

• Precisely the right topics for SQA qualifications

• Help - Grammar Guide – (repeated errors automatic referral to Grammar)

• Help - Discussion Board – peer support, share good practice & info.

What works for me?

The Exam practices:

• 3 sets for each Reading, Listening, and Writing

• Each set has 4 in R, 3 in L and 1 in W, similar to the Int2 exam style

• Reading - most useful, pitch at the right level for Int 2 exam

• Listening – quite useful, good level for Int2

A demo of the Exam practices

What doesn’t work for me

• Exam practice for writing. The level of the writing is too difficult for a non-native speaker of Chinese and the answer is too rigid ( i.e. only one answer)

What do students think of it?

What for? Practicing for exams

Most useful : Reading, similar to past papers

Least useful: Listening

Wish list

• 1. Pitch at the right level - writing

• 2. Listening - multiple choice answers would be better

• 3. Listening - audio track - repeated three times

• 4. Add speaking practice if technically possible

• 5. Add Higher and Advanced Higher materials

Any questions?