Learning Diary

Learning diary

English

Index

Introduction

Weaknesses

Strenghts

What I learned

How to improve

Positive aspects

What I need to improve

Negative aspects

What I improved

Autoevaluation

Work I've done

Reflection

Introduction

A new term started and teaching methods are not the same anymore. The emergency state caused by the appearence of the new Corona Virus, meant that extreame measures had to be taken. I hope that this presentation can explain how I have been working with the online classes. Also, I want to show my evolution and my learning methods.

What I learned

I'm not going to explain what we did in the synchronous classes because, in every class we talked about the taskes we did and it was explained to us what was wrong, what we needed to improve, etc.

Week 1

This week was the beginning of a new term, the beginning of a new journey. I believe that week 1 was different from the others. "Telescola" hadn't started and we still didn't have the weekly plans, because of this, week 1 looked a lot like classes from 2nd term, when it was finishing. From there, it was explained to us what would happen so we could become more familiar with the new methods.

Week 2

This week I did tasks about verb+ infinitive and verb+ ing form. Also we talked about verb patterns.

Week 3

In week 3 we talked mostly about multiculturalism and stuff that had to deal with it. Also we payed attention to the new vocabulary we had learned.

Week 4

This week we studied relative pronouns.

Week 5

That week we heard a poem about multiculturalism and we had to do tasks related to the poem.

Week 6

This week I studied relative clauses and revised relative pronouns. I also did more tasks about multiculturalism.

Week 7

In week 7 we talked about exchange students and exchange programs. I also talked about my opinion about this topic.

Week 8

This week I revised all the verb tenses, by doing a worksheet.

Week 9

In week 9 we did a systematisation on all the verb tenses.

Week 10

In that week we studied reported speech.

Week 11

This week I only did my autoevaluation. There was no weekly planner, so we didn't have to do the tasks. the only thing I did was finishing my learning diary.

Weaknesses

I think my biggest weakness is organizing my timetable. Between doing all my work from this subject and the others with quality and in a way that I could deliver it in time and doing my extracurricular activities, I don't get much time to do what I like, and coordenating everything is something that I have some difficulties.

Strenghts

In the beggining I didn't have a lot of strenghts. I believe the only thing that I was good at doing was the tasks, because in my opinion I am good at talking in different languages. Now I have more computer skills and I can deal with some things that I couldn't deal with in the begin.

Negative aspects

• Not having so much contact with teachers.
• It's harder to learn
• We get too isolated from the rest of the world.

Positive aspects

• It's more modern
• Gives us more responsabilitie
• We can plan our timetable
• We learn at our own rhythm

What I need to improve

Lack of Motivation

Learning Methods

Dealing with hard situations

It was hard to get used to the new methods and I still think classroom lessons are better. I tried a lot to get used to everything, ut I'm still not very used to this.

I think I still need to improve this item. I still can't deal very well with harder situations since This is still new to me.

I believe that the circumstances that made us be stuck at home and the new learning method caused lack of motivation which made this experience harder.

How to improve

Anxiety

Lack of motivation

Learning method

To get rid of anxiety I needed a lot of help from a specialist and my family. As everyone was able to see I got better, and after all this time I fannaly realised that this only depends on me, the others only supported me in my decisions and gave me the light that guided me through everything that I needed to get trough so I could be here without those types of problems

This was har to improve but I searched for tips that would make my experienc easier. For example establish goals, repeat what I intend to learn and whyle having synchronous classes ask about every doubt that I have.

This was a serious aspect that I didnt't thought would be a problem, as I love this subject. When I had lack of motivation I should have decided to do things that I love that make me relax and I did some of those things, but I didn'd do it enought. After doing those things, I would return to work more inspired and with more will to do what I had to do. Another thing that would make me more motivated was dressing like I was going to school because if i did that I would forget that I was home.

What I improved

Organization

Computer skills

Anxiety

In the beggining the only things I knew about computers were what I had learned in ICT classes and we didn't practise having online classes. I has to get used to everything and I learned a lot of computer skills that I didn't have

As the learning methods we new, I had a lot of trouble organizing the tasks and my timetable. I ended up learning on how to have some organization. Of course it's not perfect but at least gains some time so I can do the tasks more rapidly.

I started this term with a lot of anxiety. I was so nervous. With a lot of help I got over these things and now I've never been better.

Work I've done

week 1

week 2

week 3

week 4

week 5

week 6

week 7

week 8

week 9

*I couldn't send the forms and the worksheets made online with my answers

week 10

Reflection

This term was really hard to me, mostly because I thought that If I was in my comfort zone, my home, classes would be easier to me, and they weren't. What happend was the exat opposite. Online classes were even harder than classroom classes. It was harder to learn, to have organization. Everything was new, which didn't make everything easier and the circumstances didn't help either. I had to get used to solve new problems that I didn't have before. The first weeks were the ones I had more dificultties. At the end I started to understant a bit more about this tipe of lessons and now is not as hard as it was in the begginig, which is good, but I prefer classroom lessons. Even though I got better on dealing with online classes, at the end another problem came. I started to get nervous about the fact that this year was ending and that everything was going to be uncertain from the moment that the hollydays start. I eventually got over this problem and now I couldn't be more exited about what the future holds.

Autoevaluation

I think that I deserve a 5 in the end of term

I think I deserve this grade because this year was full of complications, first the anxiety, and finnaly when I thought everything was fine, coronavirus appeared, and my anxiety returned, but I continued to strive, so I could present my work and so I could get rid of these atacks for good. I guess everyone finds this term hard, because everything changed. In the online classes I only did not particiate when I couldn't and for all of these reasons I believe I deserve 5.

95%

I believe this learning diary deserves this classification.

Thanks for you attention!

Ana Matilde Couceiro Fernades Nº4 9ºA