Xhulio Kureta

Hi there! This was the last week of presentations. All of us had the opportunity to teach a lesson. I feel glad that I was part of those presentations. I have learned a lot from my colleagues because I had the ability to identify which model of a teacher fits perfectly and which is a negative one, which qualities are positive for a teacher in order to manage the class and which qualities are negative in making the lesson boring. By identifying those qualities, I have created an exact frame of that best teacher.

Hi guys! I have been part of many project presentations done by my classmates. They have to select a topic and then to act as real teachers. I have seen many different types of models of teaching presented by them and I have created that perfect teacher in my mind. Being part of their presentations has given me the opportunity to select which qualities a teacher should have and which should not, which character fits best for students and which does not. And for me, the best teacher is the one who has Fize's ability to make the class feel comfortable, Brixhilda's skill to articulate, Mikela's ability to explain and Arnisa's skill to make the class stop immediately if the teacher's situation with students is out of control. So, according to me, a mix of these skills makes the best teacher. Anyway, I haven't seen Kondakçiu's presentation yet, so, I can change my mind...

Presentations aren't just done to be marked and that's all. There is more than that. We don't only practice ourselves by presenting our project, but others can learn by it as well. On Wednesday, two of my colleagues, Mikela and Brixhilda had to present their project. Their topic was about "idioms". I'm not good at idioms because I have found them difficult to memorize.  I always have thought like: "There is time to deal with idioms in the future, so I don't have to cry over spilled milk." Unwittingly, I used " to cry over spilled milk ". This idiom was unknown for me and I learned it by listening to the project of my colleagues. That's the main reason why I really like the part of the presentations because we learn a lot from each-other. All the best! :)

Hi there! I have seen many presentations done by my classmates and I have learned many new things. Even though we are not 100% free to make our lesson as we want because our subject requires or "obliges" us to use technological tools, these requirements have changed our way of presentation. When my classmates make their presentation, they not only make these technological tools part of the lesson they are going to present, but they have to integrate them with their explanation. Some of them use videos, some others Power Points and others can show us a song accompanied with the topic they are going to present. These tools makes the lesson fantastic. I haven't thought before that the lesson might be interesting if we make it different from that traditional way of teaching. But, indeed, making technology part of explanation creates a great environment. It gives you the opportunity to explain the lesson, to make your students follow you, feeling good because of the entertainm...

On Monday, professor Ymer Leksi, from Aleksander Xhuvani University of Elbasan, hold a lecture about Interactive Whiteboards. It helps us a lot if we want to teach English to our students. It has the ability to get accompanied with a CD and there you have all your units you want to teach to your students. One of them, for instance, is "To the top". It is a program designed for beginners who want to learn English language. "To the top" contains all the units and after one unit has finished, you can play games, view videos, make quizzes and lots of other things in order to improve your English. And, what is more, these additional tasks that you do after each unit are related to the unit you have learned so far. That's what it makes it interesting!  I'm pretty sure that I am going to use Interactive Whiteboard in the future.

I had to present my project today. It was an anxious day for me for many reasons. Firstly, I was going to be the first to present it. And this has its difficulties because you don't have an example or a preview of a presentation in order to have an idea about pros and cons of it. You are the first and you are going to be the first example for others, meaning that your presentation should be as perfect as possible. Another reason is that I chose a grammatical topic. In every language the grammar part is that "black-and-white", or the boring part. It was very difficult for me to make the lesson interesting and to entertain the audience with a grammar topic. How could the students laugh or find it interesting by explaining "Active and Passive Voice" to them? The third and the most important reason why I felt anxious today is that I had to use technological tools. It was totally new for me. I have had some experiences explaining some topics in front of the cla...