Week 9 Reflection

Hello Donna, Jeff and my dear colleagues,

This week assignments have provided me a little more time to rest than last week but  I feel a bit sad to know that this course will finish very soon.

Here’s my opinion about Week 9;

Learning styles, Technology Tools, and ANVILL

           

            There are not many assignments as the previous weeks so I have enough time to finish all reading resources about learning styles, technology tools and ANVILL and  do the quiz of Edutopia. You can find my results as follow;

1) What is your emotional intelligence? – I’ve got highly skilled result in most aspects, except recognizing emotions, I’ve got moderate attention to my emotions and those of my students. I need to pay more that attention to this aspect.

2) What’s your learning style? – I’ve got linguistic 83%, logical-mathematical 19%, visual-spatial 17%, intrapersonal 56%, interpersonal 56%, musical 38%, bodily-kinesthetic 42% and naturalistic 58%. – Luckily I am an English teacher which suits my learning style. I have very bad result with logical-mathematical and visual-spatial.

3) Super teacher traits-  The results show that;

            -  Rebound time: I always recover from a crisis or setback quickly,

            - Energy mode : I often like to be active while teaching.

            - Taking charge: I sometimes  like to lead others.

            - Agreement: In a disagreement, I always want to hear points of view that conflict with mine.

            - Perfectionism: I sometimes a perfectionism.

            - Reserve: I am always comfortable sharing my opinions.

              I am very satisfied with the results of  all three quiz. It’s excellent to know our learning style, emotional intelligence and traits. It will be easier to manage the class and teaching effectively. One of my colleagues at school always has problems with controlling his emotion, even if he’s good at teaching but the students don’t like to learn with him, it would be better  if he knew his emotional intelligence and students learning styles and then use his good traits to fix it  up.

Technology Tools

         
                Before taking this course, I rarely used technology tools. 
Now I’m very happy to have many choices to enhance them in my teaching. I have learned about Nicenet, blog, Wiki space, websites, and special tool as Padlet, ANVILL. Delicious.com is one of my favorite tools. I plan to be a New teacher who is much higher technology than before. I hope that I can motivate my students more and more.

ANVILL

          Thank Professor Jeff Magoto very much for teaching us about ANVILL, an amazing and excited tool. It is very good to teach speaking and listening with it. I plan to use it with my class in the near future, but I need to learn more with it.

Final Project Report

          I would like to express my gratitude to Yiling for giving great comments to help me to improve my project draft.  I first uploaded my final project two hours  before the deadline time (Friday  June 6, at noon), but when I went over it I thought that I should have put the specific topic  of my project and delete the word “template” . I then edited it  and replaced the new one 10 hours later.  It was 8 hours after the deadline time but still be on June 6. I hope that Donna, our kind advisor would forgive me for this delay.

All the best,

Jirawan  Thani

Thailand