Easily one of the top five topics if you look at my most popular blog posts: Choice in homework.
I won’t go to deeply into what I mean by homework choice because you can see a pretty good summary here in one of the most popular posts of 2014. After you look at that, you may have a question I’ve been asked many times:
What does this look like for novices?
After not having taught novices in five years, this year I have the chance to find out. I’ll have two classes of students with no measurable proficiency. The situation is even more interesting because one of the groups is ages 6 to 10. (Yes! I will be making a homework choice adaptation for elementary students!)
So, I’ve finally adapted the choices to fit (I hope) very early novice students, in my case ages 11 to 15. You can find the PDF and .docx files at the end of my post about my syllabus, or you can see the list here. Feedback welcome, as always.
THANK YOU!!! You’ve just made this 1st-year teacher’s life 100x easier!
AWESOME! Love to hear it!
[…] Obviously, the choice list needed an overhaul, an even greater one than was required for the early-novice list I released several days […]
Holaaa! Mil gracias por tu ayuda!! Soy nueva como maestra de ELE y estoy utilizando los “I can statements”, esto me ha ayudado grandemente, me gustaria poder mantenerme en contacto con usted. Gracias! ivette2345@hotmail..com
[…] language and more importantly, made them want it more. You wanted to see this change too, and this August post was the fourth (very nearly the third) most popular post of […]
[…] to do with it: I’ll be adding this to my homework choice options, for students to check the daily gif every day for a week and report to me two or three […]