#educationalmasters

As part of the educational master's programme I'm enrolled in, I have to complete an assignment that requires me to design a lesson series based on two skills. I'm working on a lesson series that I designed last year that merely needs some tweaking to make it a suitable series for this assignment. It's interesting to have a good look at my own work though. There's always things to improve on. #100daysofproductivity (36/100)

It was about time I sat down to make a proper planning for the upcoming semester.... And so I did. #100daysofproductivity (24/100)

OK, OK... No updates for two days and this time, I didn't to anything productive. Well, I travelled to Berlin and had a blast, so I didn't waste my time, but there was simply no time to do anything work- or study-related. And I don't regret it at all 😇. Anyhoo, back on track, summarising an article on how to give students feedback during speaking activities. #100daysofproductivity (33/100)

Spent some time at my parents' place reading more articles on the same topic: assessing teaching materials. The article I am currently reading was published by the educational department of the Dutch government, so you'd think and hope it's a decent article... But, alas, very little time was spent on fact-checking and proofreading. Thank goodness, there's always a silver lining: I got to refresh my memory regarding the different categories that teaching materials can be divided into. #100daysofproductivity (15/100)

Reading up on an instrument that's supposed to help teachers assess the quality of the teaching materials they're using. Although I do really appreciate the thought behind this article, I think the way the research was carried out is ridiculous. Basically, these people asked teachers to join their training, made them fill out an exit-questionnaire and pretended they had wanted to write an article about it, so they used the outcome of the questionnaire that had been lying around anyway. The upside: it got me interested in the instrument. #100daysofproductivity (14/100) PS. As I am writing this post, I realise the page you see in my iPad is not a page from the article I'm referring to 😂😅.

It's time to get shit done again. I failed at completing the #100daysofproductivity challenge. Not because I wasn't productive, but I failed to be productive in an orderly manner, and that's exactly what I need at this point. So here's to order and structure.

The new semester at university starts in two weeks and so there's work for me to do. The downside to this track (educational masters) is that hardly anything I have to read is new to me. As a teacher you are presented with new theories all the time and I enjoy reading up on these things. The upside is that I get to revise all the things I've learnt during my bachelor's degree. #100daysofproductivity (13/100)