I need your help my turkish colleagues!! I am planning to give my students a performance work ! You know ss should show their performance in this  work! I mean performance = performance:)

Anyway; I am planning to give my students a kind of oral work; that is : i have found penfriends for my students from this site and i am planning to want my students to describe their penfriends and their countries orally!! Can this be a performance work? please help me?( i am asking this in terms of inspectors)

 

 

Of course this work can be regarded as performance work.But you know assessing speaking performance is always difficult.Being objective is a must and to what content you will do the avaluating must be done neatly in advance.To which areas will you give points???Grammer,fluency,using new vocabulary,researching,accuracy...

You should prepare forms for all your SS which show how SS got those points.Inspectors pay attention to these evaluating forms.

And another points is time..Do you have enough lesson time to assess speaking performance??You cannot do evaluating after the lesson.It should be done right after speaking so as not to forget.If you have a small group of SS then everything is easy.

I advice you to give written projects because evaluation is done more objectively.For example they can write about their pen-pals in one lesson time for about two weeks.You can observe them while doing dictionary searching,writing e.t.c and when Ss hand over the papers you can do the evaluation on a basis of grammar,punctuation,using new words and you can also include their 2 weeks time in the category of preparation and researching..

Wish you the best..

 

So the evaluation would be easier i guess; but the problem is: would this writing task be a performance wokr?Actually it is,because they will show their performance in writing ha?

thanks pinar for your quick answer,and one more question, what is your performance work for your 6th and 8th grades?if you have those classes of course?

Last year for 6th,7th and 8th grades I gave the group work of preparing a magazine.SS found it pretty enjoyable but they really studied hard cos I required at least 15 pages:)))It was difficult but I like to put them in challenging conditions.Learning really occurs in this conditions.

For this term I haven�t decided yet but for 6th grades I am thinking of giving a project about Turkey.I and Olga(Makol) agreed on a school partnership.Our first task is to introduce our countries.I will also assess students work as a performance work.For 8th grades you can use unit 3-body care- Ss can invent a beauty trade and introduce their products by using the new voc they have learnt.

For further questions you can also use my contact Duygu.

See ya:)))