Cheating in School

This week we focused on plagiarism. This led to a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of cheating in school. The students had very insightful opinions for both viewpoints.

Below are the diagrams they created during a critical thinking exercise about the positives and negatives of cheating and why students cheat.

Memo

                         

This week students learned how to write an instructional memo. Their assignment was to post a memo in their blog. Here's mine:

Memo
To: EFL Teachers
From: Teacher Jennifer
Date: June 24, 2013
Subject: Summary Game

This is a short description on how to play a summary game using Youtube.  It has been modified for my Management Science - 2nd Year English class. You will need a projector, white board space, and labels for each student to wear.

1. Divide the students into teams of three and give each student a job: "eyes," "writer," and "artist".
2. Have the "eyes" watch a short Youtube video.
3. The "eyes" must summarize verbally what they saw to their team.
4. The "artist" must draw an important scene from the description.
5. The "writer" must create one sentence that fits the picture and summarizes the video clip.
6. Students watch the Youtube video together to see which team is the most accurate.
7. Special rule! If you have extra students, make each one a judge of the other roles. One student judges how much English the "eyes" use in their description, one student judges the artwork, and the other student judges the writing.

Please feel free to modify this game to suit your needs.

Kind regards,

Teacher Jennifer

What do you expect from this course?

The first week of class is done and I think we're off to a great start! From our strengths and weaknesses activity I can tell that everyone has very distinct personalities. After our Who Am I? poem activity, I'm even more excited to get to know each of my students. Over the next seven weeks I expect to hear some diverse opinions on business ethics topics and watch their writing and speaking skills grow. I'm very happy to be teaching this class of Management Science - 2nd Year!

I have some very artistic and talented students!

Who am I?

After our strengths and weaknesses activity, the students were supposed to find positive and negative traits about themselves that match the letters of their first name. Here are mine:

J ubilant

E nergetic

N ice

N ervous

I nteresting

F idgety

E clectic

R easonable