Dear ELCE-II /Cycle 2 and ITTSC Participant English Teachers,
The third ELCE-II Competition for
Teacher Generated Materials starts NOW! J
This means that you can start submitting your lesson plans
(and handouts that come with it) already today, December 15, 2015. The lesson
plan and supplementary materials (handouts /presentations) should include the
name and school of the author and also - the grade it is intended for. You
should send the materials to: nana.ioseliani@ph-int.org . Each participant can submit only
ONE lesson plan. Deadline for submitting the lesson
plans is January 15, 2016. You
should also send me your personal e-mail address, so that we are able to
register you on our special Virtual Office (VO) platform that will be used for
rating the lesson plans.
Here’s what will happen after you submit your lesson plans:
·
We
will register all the materials and upload them to our blog www.elce-online.com and our Virtual Office (that some of
you have already obtained the access to when rating your colleagues lesson
plans earlier this month). The name of the author for each lesson plan will be
registered but it will not be indicated on the blog or the VO to ensure
transparency and impartiality when rating the lesson plan. Only the grade/class
will be mentioned.
·
All
the participants are required to go online and rate the lesson plans based on a
special rubric. Instructions for rating
will follow shortly. The cumulative sum of points that each of you collect
will depend not only on the results of the rating of your lesson plan, but
also, on how many lesson plans (of your colleagues) you will rate.
·
Rating
of the lesson plans will start on February 1, 2016 and will end on February 15,
2016.
·
Just
like last time, we will have three categories: elementary grades (1-5);
secondary grades (6-9); high school grades (10-12) and consequently, there will
be three winners (one per category).
·
The
winners will be awarded with a certificate and a gift (now you know that the
gift is worthy to fight for J).
·
Please,
note that the competition is not region specific. All the participants will be competing with one
another.
The assessment/rating rubric will
consist of the following questions:
1.
Does
the lesson plan include clearly stated pedagogical, language and civic
education objectives?
2.
Does
the lesson plan focus on the learner & gives evidence of activities which
include all students?
3.
Do
the activities reflect logical steps toward achievement of objective?
4.
Do
the activities contain scaffolding – through specific directions and/or
handouts?
5.
Does
the final activity show evidence that learners have achieved the objective?
6.
Does
the lesson plan incorporate communicative approach to language?
7.
Is
the material engaging and age/level specific?
8.
Does
the lesson plan contain enough specific instructions to enable a teacher to use
the lesson plan without having attended the ELCE workshops.
Each
of the above stated rubric questions will have three possible answers with
relevant points:
Yes = 4 points
Partially = 2 points
No = 0 points
Each
of you will get one additional point for rating each of your colleagues’ lesson
plans.
Thus the cumulative sum of your points
will equal the rating your colleagues gave you + number of lesson plans you
rated.
Please,
feel free to contact us for any additional questions. Good luck,
ELCE-II
Team J