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TESL 0130 - Unit 4 Reflection - Passing on the torch, Empowering the English Language Learner This Unit was short but it had lots of information. I learned about Autonomy in learning and its strategies, the concept is pretty straightforward, in the way that learners should be held accountable for their learning and by doing so they will learn many things. As well as the notion that the students get to choose what they want to learn versus us the instructors telling them what to learn. So to be more of a guide in their learning than actual teaching (is what I have understood). And the other idea of options is how would they demonstrate what they learned? - This portion of the course really reminded me of Universal Design for Learning (that lessons should be done for all kinds of learners), and that students should have options for example, in how to demonstrate what they have learned, via a small video clip, role play, in writing, audio recording, etc...as long as the rubric is consi

TESL- 01030 - Reflection on Unit 3 In unit 3 - Reading and Vocabulary - Having read the article on What 80% Comprehension Feels Like  really had me trying really hard to understand it. It's a great way to make you see and realize what English Language Learners go through when reading a text that is not in their native tongue. After the reading, we had to do a checklist of the reading strategies we went through in order to understand it. As I went through it, I did do most of them, but then I realized there were a few more options I could have done, but didn't.  I learned that there are:  Pre-reading strategies for reading a text, such as making predictions based on the titles, images, and content. Along with asking questions like, who wrote it, why, and where was it written?  While reading strategies , some examples are using mapping schematics, skimming and scanning. Post-reading strategies include paraphrasing, summarizing and discussing I used these strategies

TESL - 0130 - Reflection on Unit 2 This unit was pretty interesting, having to use the Readability app was lots of fun, I had a go at it with many different texts to get a good understanding of how its rating system worked. I had no clue that texts could be measured into how easy and understandable it is for the general public. Its letter system provides us with what would be considered an easy text versus what could be used in University seminar or lecture reading course. An activity that I enjoyed was 'adapting a text' for my ESL class (directed for high school students), and at the time we were nearing Halloween, so I found a text on the subject and adapted it accordingly. As I did this I had so many ideas for a possible lesson plan that I jotted them down and decided to use it next time. But it was interesting to see that I couldn't just choose any random text, it needed to have certain qualifiers. It needed to be suitable for the class - was it interesting? is it