Efficiency
http://docs.subjectivemetrics.com/home/aboutus/press/Effective%20Peer%20Review.pdf
The Waypoint Outcomes website offers useful and effective tools for teachers to use in their classrooms. Among other things, this site offered a pdf file that gives a great description of how to use peer revision with their students. Teachers can use this to learn how to effectively use the peer revision process in their classes. Not only is the peer revision process good for the teacher to help cut back on time spent grading rough draft papers, but it is also beneficial to the students. The students doing the revision can learn from their peers, and it will help to improve their writing abilities.
This is a great example of an efficiencyin teaching. When the whole class is actively participating in the process, it helps the students stay on task. The teacher, in turn, will have an easier job grading the final drafts because common errors will have already been corrected.
Effectiveness
http://www.caslt.org/resources/general/program-support-omb_en.php
The casl.org website allows teachers to view different types of puzzles for their students. Crossword puzzles are a great way for students to learn how to spell new words. Also, these types of puzzles can be given to students as an assignment because the definitions can be given as clues, then they would have to find which blank the words best fit according to definition.
I personally enjoy doing crossword puzzles and believe that they are a useful way to learn words. They are extremely challenging and make students think about the spelling and the meaning of words. These crossword puzzles are an effective way for students to learn in the area of english/language arts.
Enhancement
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/games/mad_libs/
Teach-nology is a website that offers useful educational tools. Some of these tools are in the form of fun and creative games that students can play online. One of my favorite games was called Mad-Lib, which is a great way for english/ language arts students to learn the different types of words. In this game there is a list of word types: noun, adverb, and verb. These words are then made into a story so the student can visually see the words they chose put into a sentence.
Computer games like these can enhance the learning abilities of english/ language arts students. I will definitely use these types of word games in my future classroom because I had a teacher in high school that used Mad-Libs in her class. I thought that it was a great way to learn how to use adverbs in my writing.
