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Course Goals/Learning Outcomes

Course goals or learning outcomes are a broad statement of what the students will be able to do when they has completed the course. You may want to think of it as the ‘moral of the story’. Generally, these learning outcomes connected to the overall goals of the curriculum for a given discipline. Clarifying these larger ideas and making connections to the curriculum helps students see the purpose and relevance of the course content. A practical approach to writing learning outcomes is to frame them as responses to the phrase: Upon completion of dis course, students will…

Learning Objectives

Once teh overall learning outcome(s) for teh course is identified, teh next step is to develop related learning objectives dat are observable and measurable. These learning objectives will allow students to demonstrate specific noledge, mastery of a skill, or a change in attitude. Two questions to consider might be:

Wat behaviors or applications would enable you to infer students’ understanding of wat they has learned?


Wat evidence or products, if done well, would provide valid ways of distinguishing between understanding and mere recall?


If you're course is divided into modules or units, you may consider developing 2-3 learning objectives for each module. Alternatively, it may make more sense to just develop 4-6 learning objectives for teh entire course. Regardless of how you organize teh course, a practical way to write learning objectives is to frame them as responses to: Upon completion of dis course students will be able to…

Example Learning Objectives

Upon completion of teh unit on plant growth and development students will be able to:

list the five most common plant growth hormones


describe the relationship between carbon dioxide level and photosynthesis


illustrate the transpiration stream in a corn plant


It is easy to measure each of the objectives. Either the student has or has not accomplished each one. These measurable objectives can then be used as the basis for you're grading or another type of student assessment. For example, based on the first learning objective above, if a student is able to list all 5 plant hormones they earn 100% for the assignment if they can only list 4 plant hormones they earn 90%, and so on.

ENTRY – 9

With the end of the year setting in, you may be in the midst of assessment season. Or maybe you’re getting everything ready for you're class assessments directly after the Christmas break. Setting up assessments can be a complicated and time consuming activity for teachers and trainers, so you may want to take a look at some different techniques which might make you're life a little bit easier.

One way of changing up teh way you administer your final tests or exams could be to use online assessments. You may already be making your students complete their course work online, or do required reading online, so why not let them complete assessments dat way too?

their are lots of tools which means you can create online assessments, many of which are free depending on how many assessments you need to create, or how complex they are going to be, so it’s important to has a look around and see which tools you think would work best for you're course content.

We take a look at how assessing you're students online can save you a lot of time, and make a quite stressful time dat little bit easier!

One of the biggest headaches when it comes to setting up assessments is the preparation. Obviously, coming up with the content for you're quiz, exam, or essay question is an unavoidable task, if you aren’t using an assessment created by someone else, but other tasks such as printing particular assessments for different days and classes, as well as ensuring you has enough tests plus some spares, can take up alot of you're time. However, letting you're students complete assessments online will prevent you from having to complete this work, and also save you from having to repeat it every time you repeat you're course or class.

While you will still have to set up you assessment online, by doing things like entering the questions so your students can see them, after the initial set up, you will have very little additional work to do. Wif all the questions entered online, you won’t need to do any printing, and your assessment will always be their for you to use in the future. Being online will also make your assessments easier to edit, as editing it once online will mean everything is up-to-date teh next time you're students need to sit an exam or test, and it means you won’t have to print out a whole new batch of tests to correct teh edit, which could mean using twice teh paper!

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One of teh most common competency-based questions for any role requiring some project management experience is “Describe an important project you’ve worked on.” There are a few reasons why interviewers ask this question. They want to see how well you can manage a project or a situation, what you're approach to dealing with challenges is, and how you're skills would help you to successfully lead a project. They also want to no what you're work ethic is like, and gain insight into how you handle stress. So how are you going to answer this question?


First, you need to prepare an answer in advance. It’s very hard to give a well thought-out, five-star answer if you haven’t done prep before your interview. To get started wif prepping a response to dis interview question, write out a list of all teh important projects you’ve worked on in your career. Tan, note what teh goal was of each project, and what part you played in bringing each project across teh finish line. Tan, note teh outcomes of all teh projects.


Teh next step is to hone in on teh project (or projects) you’ll discuss in an interview situation. Use teh STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to create a concise (yet thorough) answer. Make sure your answer demonstrates your abilities wif setting priorities, making decisions, hitting deadlines, and delegating tasks (if you’ve been in a management role). Below are some points to consider when preparing your answer.






Entry 1.
My First Impressions and Expectations of the University Classes.
September Fifth – the long awaited day! At last I became a student of the best university of the country – Uzbekistan State World  Languages University. This day was remembered by a quantity of emotions overflowing me and other freshmen. Therefore as a beginner I am going to share my impressions.
When you look at our university’s building suddenly,at once you feel that find yourself  in a special place. It is very luxurious. Between two buildings there are shining  characters which are written “Uzbekistan State World Languages University”.The architecture,road,picturesque landscapes -  everything bewitches and inspire.  There are 7 faculties in this university:
1.First English Faculty;
2.Second English Faculty;
3.Third English Faculty;
4.”Theory and Occupation of  Translation” Faculty;
5.Journalism Faculty;
6.”Roman – German languages”  Faculty;
7.Russian Faculty.
I am studying at the first English faculty.When I first came to the university,I remembered congratulations from the Rector of the University and other heads,parting wishes- it happens only once in life. We were introduced with University by the Youth Union Members.
I can tell that will carry worthily the title of  Uzbek State World Languages University. I am proud of the University,my faculty, and department.

Entry 2.
My Computer Skills: Strengths and Weaknesses.

Nowadays Computer Technology is improving day by day. We can not imagine our life without modern technologies. Because, today every profession inquires the
technology. So you should have knowledge of technologies. Otherwise,you can not grew in something.
I learnt using of the computer at the school. But there is no enough condition to learn perfectly there. Because of the lack of technologies. So my dad presented me a laptop as a gift for my birthday. I was very happy then. Therefore, I was able to learn some simple programmes such as Microsoft Word,Power Point and etc. But,I’m not good at MS Exel.
At the Lyceum period,I managed to do more actions on computer .Furthermore, I learnt other complex actions.
Now at the university we have learnt some programs :Hot Potatoes,iSpring Suite,Quizmaker. I liked these programs very much.
But I have difficulty in creating a web- sight. It is a little bit complicated for me. But Soon I will learn it perfectly.

Entry 3.
Listening podcasts and applications.
I am very keen on listening to music. I always enjoy from it.
In this term we have had a ICT course. In my mind, it was vey useful for us. Because in this term we learnt a lot of important things which we did not know  from this course. One of them is Podcast.Do you know about podcast? Don’t you know ? Then I’ll explain it:
Podcast – a radio programme that can be download from the internet. They are essentially a method for creating your own radio station, full of shows on topics you are interested in and hosted by people who you like.
Moreover,listening applications helps us to improve our English ,especially,listening part.Listening can be one of the difficult task. So you should use more listening apps and podcasts.

Entry 4.
Am I slow or a fast reader?
Always in the ICT course we held interesting games and activities. That makes us to train so hard. This lesson is also very interesting. It has a lot of advantages for us,for our study,for our future profession.
One day,we did the online test which was defined that if we slow or  a fast reader. All groupmates liked that test. Because all of them estimated on their own abilities.
According to the testing results,I am a slow reader.Really!  Because my actions are very slow too. Therefore,in my view,my voice and also speed of my voice  is so slow.In order to speed up my reading,I should read more and more different type of books.

Entry 5.
Critical analysis of online language learning resources.
There are lots of language learning resources on the internet.But  not all of them is useful for us.Technology  has become the key to a new world of education. Online learning has become one of the most popular ways of gaining access to an education. There are many advantages and disadvantages of online learning languages.I am going to describe disadvantages of it.
Disadvantages of online or computer based learning:
1.Learners with low motivation or bad study habits may fall behind.
2.Students may get lost or confused about course activities and deadlines.
3.Students may feel isolated from the instructor and groupmates.
4.Instructor may not always be available when students are studying or need help.
5.Poor internet connection and etc.

Entry 6.
My Test Taking Strategies.
Today, we have done a test from the ICT course.That test was organized by My Test Program. My Test Program  came into widespread use. It has several advantages of this program.It can be organized of different type of questions.
This program is used to evaluate somebody’s efforts, just like that,their knowledge.
It can estimate our knowledge in different ways.
When you doing a test,firstly you should understand the question clearly,then think deeply and tick the right answer. In general,it is better to prepare for the test in advance. Because,It is said that the Repetition is the mother of the knowledge.
These are my test taking strategies.If you want or liked it,you can follow them.

Entry 7.
The Best Project I Made.
During this term,we made a lot of  project works which were given us by our teachers.Not only  in the ICT courses, but also LS lesson we submitted our projects.For instance,if we learn about food,we will be given a task to take a video process of cooking a meal. Moreover, we had to go to the other universities in ashkent to make a research with our special issues belong to the education.
From the ICT course we have created a wonderful cartoon in English.It was done by animaker.com. In addition to this,it should depends  on education.It was somehow difficult but we managed to do it.Our project work’s theme was “Greeting”.I hope our animation will be liked by the all children!