Week- 9: Submitting Final Project Report & Learning styles teachnology can facilitate

I have been very busy throughout this whole week. It has been both challenging and exciting experience for me in preparing my final project report. At I have completed it with much care and minute observation from the practical experience. To prepare my technology enhanced project report, I have used the template given in our course website and have also got very practical idea from the sample of project reports completed by our participants of the previous batch of this online course. I have been delighted after I finished my project report. This report is going to help me a lot to improve teaching and learning practices in FLTC English Training course. Before my enrollment in this course “Web Skills” I reflected on the improvement of FLTC English Training course but I did it quite informally often for very short time. I also reflected on the teaching techniques and approach I used there. At that Time, project based teaching was also unknown to me. This is the first time I have reflected on the overall development of teaching and learning practice in FLTC course for a long period. I hope that I have discovered an innovative approach for making English language course very participatory and engaging where learners are expected both to acquire and learn the target language.

Finally I have also changed the title of my project and have been entitled “Improving Learners’ Literacy Skills through Online Learning.” I am going to share this project report with the Director of FLTC and ask for his feedback. I also want to bring some changes in the setting of this center and like to have some more logistic supports there, for example, I need to have some computers connected to internet for learners’ use at this center. If I have this facility, I expect that my learners will enjoy this course while participating actively in the course.

I have also gone through the articles recommended for our reading. There I have come to know about the different learning styles our learners have, and am also informed how we can facilitate and feed most learning styles while teaching my students in the class. We learn that technology can render a great support to feel learners’ different learning styles. From the discussion board, I have got some practical idea from my peers about how we can facilitate our learners’ different styles by incorporating technology and online tools into our class. Most of them are practically significant. I am now thinking how I can design some exercises which feed all types of learners.

In this week, I have also completed filling out a course evaluation. There I wrote about my learning experience in this online course “web Skills.” However I am very satisfied with this course and it has shown me a new direction of applying an innovative approach in teaching my learners English. I have been able to make my learners more engaging outside the class. Most importantly, they are spending much time in English environment and it helps them acquire and learner English as well.

Regards,

Nahid