Michael+Shaw

=**My Profile:** = =**Action Research Project Planner:** = Which area/s of your practice would you like to improve? Use of target language (Chinese) in the classroom Student motivation ICT as a tool for Teaching & Learning What will be your focus for this project in 2011? We plan to analyse our use of Chinese in the classroom and try to determine how increased use of Chinese may motivate or demotivate our students. In addition, we hope to see how increased use of ICT can motivate our students and enhance learning. || Timeline for 2011 A student survey will be created in order to gauge the confidence & competency of students' language learning under the areas of: -prior knowledge (how long have you studied Chinese?) -management/organisation (discipline & behaviour) -classroom instructions -classroom greetings -informal conversation -classroom discussion -feedback language The survey needs to be done in the middle of each term. Self-assessment/survey sheet is also recommended for teachers to assess how much target language we think we are using in the classroom. -filming the classes will help us gauge how much target language we are using Budget for Resource Grant || What did you do? We created our own survey over several months of email contact as we gradually refined it to suit our purposes. (see Stage 2 Plan). We have agreed to deliver the survey in the coming weeks of 1st term 2012 to our own classes spread over three schools and two systems. At our March 9 workshop, we brain-stormed a list of useful expressions, questions, responses, instructions which we are already either using or plan to use. (see below) Each of us will then collate survey responses and record our own observations (Stage 4) and reflections (Stage 5) below.
 * = Stage 1 – ANALYSE =
 * =** Stage 2 - PLAN ** =
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 * ==**Stage 3 – ACT ** ==
 * ==**Stage 3 – ACT ** ==

Year 7-12 1. Instructions 好！请进，请坐. Q:你好吗？ A:很好，谢谢！你呢？ Q:你为什么迟到了？ A:对不起，我有数学课. Q:我可以去厕所吗？ A:可以，去吧！ Q:写好了吗？ A:好了. Q:今天冷吗？热吗？ A:不冷. 请你把作业本拿出来. 请你打开课本. 请把书翻到第几页. 不要说话！安静！ 注意听！听我说. 跟我读，跟我念. 打开日记本，把作业写下来. 你的校服穿得不好. 这是什么意思？请你再说一次. 不要偷看，不要看别人的！ 一个人一张桌子. 下课了，再见！明天见！周末愉快！ 把椅子放在桌子上. || What did you notice? || What would you do the same/differently in the future? ||
 * ==**Stage 4 - OBSERVE ** ==
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 * ==**Stage 5 - REFLECT ** ==
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