Classroom Teaching Procedure
Classroom Setting: Grade X (students know how to use the Internet and have been asked and explained about working with blogs for their assignment)
Topic: Recount Text
• Students are required to work on their self-customized blogs according to the assignment given by the teacher about recount text.
• Students are free to decide their own topic of recount text (e.g. their holiday, their past experience).
• Students have 5 days to work on their assignments. Late submission will not be accepted.
• Students are encouraged to post picture(s) related with their topic along with their writing product (make sure the pictures are not too big and too many).
• If references are used, students must cite them (i.e. give proper credits to people for citing their works) to avoid plagiarism. The simplest citation they can make is by embedding link of the references under their writing.
• Other students are encouraged to comment on everyone else’s blog once the works are shared.
• The minimum length is 4 paragraphs, or at least consists of 500 words.
• Students may choose their own space for blogs, and they have to share the link to their blog via the teacher’s blog.
• Students can access the teacher’s blog for the information of the technical issues, classroom rules of conduct, and assessment. Students may also contact the teacher personally if they have difficulties or questions to ask.
• Personal assessment is sent via personal message (e.g. e-mail).
Example of information to be shared with students in teacher’s page (students’ must-read sections)
Topic of the Week
In this section, teacher may share the topic of learning for the week. This may include the theory or basic knowledge students should know about what they are going to learn. This section should be made for the students to study.
Homework of the Week
In this section, teacher can share the assignment students should do. Teacher should provide the detail of the assignment.
Technical Issues
In this section, teacher can put the requirements for students’ assignment (e.g what they have to work on, how long they will work on it, citation needed).
Classroom of Conduct
In this section, teacher can share with the class about “the rules of the game” (e.g regarding late submission, netiquette that the students should understand about, how to share their blog).
Assessment
In this section, teacher may provide a simple rubric of assessment. Below is an example of rubric for assessing recount text.
Maximum score: 16
12-16 : A
8-11 : B
4-7 : C
<4 : D
