salam dear colleagues : at first i would like to thank my colleague who gave us such an opportunity to express ourselves not only concerning the topic but also as lteachers of english
in fact it would be lying to say that the project seems to be at the reach of teachers
actually we should identify the reasons behin the failure of learners
to prepare a piece of writing at the level
of what was he asked to prepare .our pupils are not readu handed to write as they fail in their writing skills so how can they prepare a long piece of writing I.E ( the project )
but does this mean that we should resignate and shrinnk our shoulders saying it is not my fault ???????§§§§§!!!!
actually if we neglect our procet ;this means that we misse one of the important steps in evaluating our teaching as the output is our criterion to measure our teaching was successful or not
yet some colleagues may not share my point of view and say that we can measure and evalute through tests exams and so on.BUT sincerly colleagues do you believe that tests are alone able to clarify the extent of our teaching ?????
So as far as i am concerned and through my humble experience i found that with a little effort we may change something .
1/ the project should be at the reach of your pupils .don't be the slave of the book
2/ i try to use their mother tongue to explain well the different elements and steps of the project that they will write on a sheet of paper and stick at the end of the page of the file being studied
3/ don't accept projects ready made in cyber cafés
4/encourage them to write
5/ some teachers receive projects and neither read them nor mark them such an attitude may reveal to pupils that such a task in not important
6/ a whole our to present their work in whatever way .stay at the back put two tables at the front .start asking questions .let the others ask questions
7/ try to explain why ready made projects are useless by giving them examples = out of the topic remarks bad requests from research engines etc etc
8/ mark them and tell them that they will be counted in tests
i know that the result is not quick .but at least your pupils will learn something let them explain even use their own mother tongue to clarify points .we are rather interested in the soul of project ( research ) and after ******** will come
try it and you will see .your colleague respectfully .sorry for the mistakes i did not revise what i wrote