[LD-SIG Discussion List] Nakasendo 2010

Fri Mar 26 12:19:03 CDT 2010

Peter, hi,

Thanks for your message. That's five people now who are so far interested in
taking part in the LD multi-session at Nakasendo (and hopefully a few more
to come yet too!).

It sounds as if you have already decided to focus on the
student self-evaluations for Nakasendo.

Will you have further contact with the students? I was just wondering if
it's worth getting their views and feedback about the self-evaluation that
you asked them to do?

As LD will be running a multi-session at Nakasendo (simultaneous
mini-presentations, small group discussions and so on, at the same time in
the same room), how are you planning to show your thinking around the
self-evaluations that you have been using (poster, video clip, flip-chart,
etc) ?

These are some initial thoughts that I have. If you are happy to discuss on
LD-discuss, we can continue the discussion here on the list, or if you
prefer to contact me off-list, that's also OK. No problem.

Thanks again, Peter --- looking forward to hearing back from you,

Cheers,

Andy

> From: "Peter MIZUKI" <peter.mizuki at nihon-u.ac.jp>
> To: "Discussion list for JALT ld-sig members" <discuss at ld-sig.org>
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:00:24 +0900
> Subject: Re: [LD-SIG Discussion List] Nakasendo 2010
>  Hi Andy,
>
> Thank you for your message, I`ve been busy with other things and haven`t
> had time to help out the SIG as I could before, anyway I read through your
> message and I would be very interested in taking part.  I just finished
> teaching an intensive academic English course focusing on the 4 skills and
> emphasizing presentation skills as well.  I had the students fill out short
> self-evaluation forms after finishing their presentations and after the
> other students had finished giving their presentations.  The students were
> able to do 2 presentations and by their comments it helped give them
> confidence and self-awareness of how to improve themselves.
>
>
> The class consisted of originally 16 students with 12 students eventually
> finishing the course.  The class consisted of the same students and
> the course covered 15 sessions  over a period of 5 days with 3 sessions each
> day  many  of the students were highly motivated having been informed they
> had received scholarships and would be studying at a foreign university for
> one year beginning from this Aug. or Sept.
>
>  I would be interested in just reporting what I found in teaching these
> two sessions (I taught 2 sessions of the same content) and how the self
> evaluations of their own presentations I felt helped improve awareness of
> their presentation performances.
>
> Well Andy, what do you think?
>
> I will be applying to present at the Nakasendo conf. along the same lines
> as above.
>
> See you now,
>
> Peter Mizuki
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Andy Barfield <barfield.andy at gmail.com>
> *To:* Discussion list for JALT ld-sig members <discuss at ld-sig.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:48 AM
> *Subject:* [LD-SIG Discussion List] Nakasendo 2010
>
>  Hi everyone,
>
>
> Learner Development SIG is hoping to do some kind of multi-session
> (different presentations, posters and discussions happening at the same time
> in one room) at the Nakasendo conference, Sunday 20th June
>
> in Tokyo, and we would like to hear from you if you are interested in
> taking part.
>
>
>
> Two areas of focus seems to offer some really interesting possibilities –
> (i) teachers bringing along examples of their learners' self-assessment in
> action (eg short video clips of students doing self-assessment, written
> examples of students’ self-assessment/reflection about learning) and using
> these as a springboard for discussion;
>
>
>
> (ii) teachers looking at the story/stories of how the /their learners have
> tried to develop self-assessment – the time perspective could be in the last
> while, over the last year, over the last few years; again the idea would be
> for those interested to bring along some kind of object to discuss - a
> poster, a flipchart, a video clip or a written reflection/story about
> developing self-assessment.
>
>
> If that catches your interest, please do contact me within the next week or
> so with some initial thoughts about what you would like to do. Many thanks
> ---
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Andy
>
>
> PS You can find the (formal) Call for Papers for the LD SIG and FLP SIG
> here http://ld-sig.org/Nakasendo2010_CFP.html  Learner Development aims to
> focus on self-assessment issues in the classroom (and/or in self-access,
> virtual learning and other types of extra-mural learning), while Framework
> and Language Portfolio intends to look at learner training for
> self-assessment. Teacher Ed (website *tinyurl.com/jalt-teachered)* is also
> taking part and focusing on self-assessment of one's teaching, and the role
> of reflection in developing as a teacher-learners.
>
>
>
>
>
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