Dec 14 End-of-course Reflection

It was my great pleasure to have taken Paul's CALL course and I enjoyed every single session very much. The course is very practical and inspirational that has given me lots of impacts both on my teaching and professional development as a teacher. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to Paul for organizing such a wonderful course for us and trying his very best to promote e-learning. I would also like to write about my reflection after completed the course.

In terms of teaching and learning, the course has provided me with plenty of new ideas to try out with my P.6 students. I've tried to use Padlet for brainstorming ideas and vocabulary in writing, Actively Learn for interactive reading comprehension, Nearpod lessons on grammar, Quizlet for vocabulary building, Kahoot! and Quizlet Live for in-class competitions, EDpuzzle for interactive listening and many more. Although they were often short tasks that only took less than a lesson time, the impacts on my teaching and my students' learning were huge. One of the most positive effects was motivation. It is very obvious that students are more engaged and self-directed when learning with the interactive e-tools. They are more actively involved in the lessons as they are 100% participating. Another considerable benefit was collaboration. As teachers are worrying about how to enhance students' cooperation and cater for learners' diversity, e-learning is a fantastic way to achieve that. As students' work are instantly posted and shown to everybody in the class, less-able students can get the advantage of learning from the more-able ones. Teachers can also get to know who is leaving behind so that immediate support can be given. I believe in this way, teaching and learning can be more effective.

In terms of personal development as a teacher, the course has brought to me a lot of inspirations and self-reflections. After teaching for 4 years, I sometimes feel that I am running out of ideas in teaching. Things are becoming routine and my passion is losing under the huge workload. However, after taking the course, one very valuable inspiration that has rooted in my mind is that I, as a teacher, need to keep learning. I have heard a saying, "the day you stop learning is the day you stop teaching." I am blessed that I've learnt a lot of new things from this course, which enable me to have new ideas and gain a little passion to improve my teaching. On top of that, I even start to bring impacts on my fellow colleagues. I remember that I used Prezi instead of PowerPoint for teaching/ presentation in a lesson observation by my panel head and partners. Not only my students but also my colleagues were very much impressed. They even came to me and ask me how to make a Prezi presentation! From that moment onward, I knew I am starting to make things change.


Once again, thank you very much, Paul! :)