Once the presentations over the webquest were ready, we devoted almost 3 classroom sessions to present them.
Self-reflection:
During these presentations I've thought mainly about 2 topics: assessment and teaching styles.
These sessions have made me think a lot about assessment and evaluation (a cyclic trend topic in my mind) the importance of having clear criteria in order to be objective while assessing. The importance of transmitting to the students these criteria before their assessment (to make it transparent instead of the classical black box in which students try to guess what the teacher is looking for in their works). The importance of defining what is important. Because what is meaningful for me as evaluator may not be so important for another member of the assessing team. So, the importance of an agreement on shared criteria... And then, why not? Share this criteria with those who are going to be assessed... What do people fear if they know it in advance? Even more, the importance of having meaningful criteria that makes it possible to assess the whole process and not just a product... Is it possible to assess what a person/group really know? What are then those criteria?
I've found it very difficult to assess the other groups. I felt myself being subjective... Sometimes having the feeling that I liked it or not... but it is not that easy to state why I liked it... I think assessment is a topic that will accompany me during my whole path... maybe today's reflection is just one step further and the opportunity to come back to it.
About teaching styles... As you can see through the 4 presentations I've attached (ours and 3 more) there are many ways to explain the same thing... What leads me to many questions... What's the best way to work on a content? Does the content itself really matter? Or what matters is the way the teacher presents it? What do engage us? and our future students?
During these sessions we were asked to assess the other group's presentations (peer-assessment) and to self-assess ours. (Neither of these tasks was an easy one...)
It was very enriching to see the same contents through different perspectives. All the groups had to prepare a presentation on the same contents. At first, I thought I was going to get bored of listening the same up to 6 times... but it was the other way round. Even we had exactly the same material to prepare it, none of us did the same... Through the different groups we could reinforce the core concepts and then getting different nuances depending on what the group found interesting and on what each group focused on.
You can find our presentation in the last post.
Here I've attached the presentations of the groups that share it:
Presentation of Leticia, Chusa, Andrea C. y Ari:
Presentation of Raúl, Pablo, Ruth and Dani J.:
Presentation of Raquel, Blanca and Elena:
Our group agreed before the presentations started to assess through 3 main criteria:
- Contents: Is the presentation complete? Do you feel that they understand what they present? Are they able to answer questions about the content they present? Have they looked for examples to reinforce the meaning of the concepts they present?
- Communication skills: Do they read? (The audience doesn't matter at all) Do they repeat a memorized paragraph? (same as the last one) Do they explain what's in the presentations? (The message here is addressed to the audience) Do they look the people they are explaining the topic to? Do they feel comfortable with English? (We didn't give a bad mark if this is not the case... but we found it very important to keep our attention on it because the quality of what is being said can be affected by the lack of domain of the language used... From my point of view this is a pitty...)
- Tech quality: What kind of presentation do they chose? Did they explore any new software or stick to power point? How are the "slides" like? (I think it is importance to achieve a balance in the quantity of text to read: too much text then the people won't listen... if there is not enough text they may get lost... So the point is to present the key ideas or concepts and to develop them through the oral explanation). Did they use videos and images? Is this media relevant and well chosen?
You can find a summary of our group evaluations in Almudena's blog. There are only 3 of the 6 groups evaluations because we handled the other 3 (included ours) to Miguel without keeping a copy.
It was very enriching to see the same contents through different perspectives. All the groups had to prepare a presentation on the same contents. At first, I thought I was going to get bored of listening the same up to 6 times... but it was the other way round. Even we had exactly the same material to prepare it, none of us did the same... Through the different groups we could reinforce the core concepts and then getting different nuances depending on what the group found interesting and on what each group focused on.
You can find our presentation in the last post.
Here I've attached the presentations of the groups that share it:
Presentation of Leticia, Chusa, Andrea C. y Ari:
Presentation of Raúl, Pablo, Ruth and Dani J.:
Presentation of Raquel, Blanca and Elena:
Our group agreed before the presentations started to assess through 3 main criteria:
- Contents: Is the presentation complete? Do you feel that they understand what they present? Are they able to answer questions about the content they present? Have they looked for examples to reinforce the meaning of the concepts they present?
- Communication skills: Do they read? (The audience doesn't matter at all) Do they repeat a memorized paragraph? (same as the last one) Do they explain what's in the presentations? (The message here is addressed to the audience) Do they look the people they are explaining the topic to? Do they feel comfortable with English? (We didn't give a bad mark if this is not the case... but we found it very important to keep our attention on it because the quality of what is being said can be affected by the lack of domain of the language used... From my point of view this is a pitty...)
- Tech quality: What kind of presentation do they chose? Did they explore any new software or stick to power point? How are the "slides" like? (I think it is importance to achieve a balance in the quantity of text to read: too much text then the people won't listen... if there is not enough text they may get lost... So the point is to present the key ideas or concepts and to develop them through the oral explanation). Did they use videos and images? Is this media relevant and well chosen?
You can find a summary of our group evaluations in Almudena's blog. There are only 3 of the 6 groups evaluations because we handled the other 3 (included ours) to Miguel without keeping a copy.
Self-reflection:
During these presentations I've thought mainly about 2 topics: assessment and teaching styles.
These sessions have made me think a lot about assessment and evaluation (a cyclic trend topic in my mind) the importance of having clear criteria in order to be objective while assessing. The importance of transmitting to the students these criteria before their assessment (to make it transparent instead of the classical black box in which students try to guess what the teacher is looking for in their works). The importance of defining what is important. Because what is meaningful for me as evaluator may not be so important for another member of the assessing team. So, the importance of an agreement on shared criteria... And then, why not? Share this criteria with those who are going to be assessed... What do people fear if they know it in advance? Even more, the importance of having meaningful criteria that makes it possible to assess the whole process and not just a product... Is it possible to assess what a person/group really know? What are then those criteria?
I've found it very difficult to assess the other groups. I felt myself being subjective... Sometimes having the feeling that I liked it or not... but it is not that easy to state why I liked it... I think assessment is a topic that will accompany me during my whole path... maybe today's reflection is just one step further and the opportunity to come back to it.
About teaching styles... As you can see through the 4 presentations I've attached (ours and 3 more) there are many ways to explain the same thing... What leads me to many questions... What's the best way to work on a content? Does the content itself really matter? Or what matters is the way the teacher presents it? What do engage us? and our future students?
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