HMIe are still in the house but as yet I have not been visited...shame. But there is still time.
tried something new today with S4 Class. Had them working in groups to study a particular element of adjectival endings in German. One group was after the definite article, one after the indefinite and the last with no preceding article. some students seemed to benefit from the experience but I think I am going to have to over it whole class with them to try to help them "get" all the bits.
They evaluated it after which was reasonably positive but you often wonder whether, as we all have been guilty of, just filling in positively because its easier. I tried to counteract this by having them back up their observations with a comment. That worked. Many really enjoyed the group work aspect but some identified what I had observed that some groups didn't function collaboratively.
Quite pleased then. My next project is to set up a wiki for my S3 French lot who I would like to collaboratively produce and edit an account of their ideal holidays. First I have to delete my current wikispaces account cos I've basically made a bugger of my account. I will then set a new one.
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