AR cycle 2 (ph 1- Writing)

Day 23-25, 2-4 May

Ahh! I enjoyed the three lessons. Things went well and I’m quite pleased with the way students responded to the changes. Surely the sample memo was a great help for the students. In addition, the self-help exercise gave SS an opportunity to rationalize. I did move around in the class to monitor SS and also asked a few questions. The activity became like an oral quiz and SS participated in it. Though some students were still reluctant to fill out the peer review form, but these are only a few as compared to the number of SS in previous cycle. Students continued the writing activity for two consecutive days as there were two practice tasks and at the end of the second class I asked them to hand in their booklets so that I could mark them. One thing that I hadn’t planned and I decided on the spot was that while monitoring SS on the second day, I also gave feedback on draft 2 of the first writing task of this week. This exercise helped SS in improving their second writing task though I couldn’t give everyone a feedback. But generally SS not receiving feedback do listen very carefully when their peers sitting next to them get feedback. Useful learning strategy indeed!