negar92
05-30-2012, 03:50 PM
Error Correction
Error correction is often done by the teacher providing corrections for mistakes made by students. However, it is probably more effective for students to correct their own mistakes. In order to do this, students and the teacher should have common shorthand for correcting mistakes.
Aim: Teaching students to correct their own mistakes
Activity: Mistake identification and correction
Outline:
Discuss the importance of correcting your own mistakes with students. Point out that information arrived out inductively (by their own reasoning) is more likely to be retained over the long term.
Go through the shorthand used in the following exercise for various types of mistakes.
Ask students to first find mistakes in the short biography.
Give students the correction marks copy of the short biography
Ask students to correct the short biography based on the correction marks.
Give students corrected version of short biography
Error correction is often done by the teacher providing corrections for mistakes made by students. However, it is probably more effective for students to correct their own mistakes. In order to do this, students and the teacher should have common shorthand for correcting mistakes.
Aim: Teaching students to correct their own mistakes
Activity: Mistake identification and correction
Outline:
Discuss the importance of correcting your own mistakes with students. Point out that information arrived out inductively (by their own reasoning) is more likely to be retained over the long term.
Go through the shorthand used in the following exercise for various types of mistakes.
Ask students to first find mistakes in the short biography.
Give students the correction marks copy of the short biography
Ask students to correct the short biography based on the correction marks.
Give students corrected version of short biography