EXTRA WORK. It is important that all the students have something to do in their language, such as a novel to read or a film to watch. This is because they all finish at different times and need to keep themselves occupied with different tasks.
DIFFERENTIATION. In any case the entire lesson is highly differentiated. The board in the classroom becomes a tangle of boxes and bubbles with instructions for different language and groupings quite early on in each lesson. It is very much like spinning a lot of different plates, there is so much to keep an eye on. On the other hand we are definitely treating each child like an individual with a highly individualised learning plan in this course.
BLOGS. The blogs are coming on well with the students who are putting their creative tasks on their. The students who work with a tutor or from a book don't understand very well why they are writing down what they do on their blog, as in doing this they are not necessarily learning anything. So they need regular reminding to keep a record of this.
ARR. This week the students added their comments to the ARR. Mostly they seem positive about the course.
INTERNET. We have been having problems with a very slow internet connection this week, which made me realise just how heavily this course relies on connecting to the Internet. It's hard to think of a way of students learning and practising languages I don't speak, together with speakers of other languages in a non-Internet way. I suppose I could set a written task - "What I did last summer" or similar, but then it would need reading and marking by a speaker of the relevant language.
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