ELTAM Conference, October 2014

ABSTRACT (up to 150 words maximum)
The abstract will be included in the conference programme. It should accurately reflect the content of your presentation as it will help participants to decide which sessions to attend.

The importance of assessing lead-in activities is essential; we monitor quality and provide information about our teaching methods and student's acquiring knowledge at the beginning of the school year, term and even at the beginning of each lesson. What should we value? It is the main goal of teaching process. We must set well-designed assessment strategy, use the results, create feedback and change the teaching approach.
Technology is just a tool that makes our teaching easy and our classrooms are becoming flexible and interactive learning space. Kahoot is a great teaching platform that can be used in the class. It is "blended learning based on the game, allowing educators and students to research, create, collaborate and share knowledge."











SUMMARY OF PRESENTATION (up to 300 words)
Contents and plan of the presentation. Speaker Proposal Forms without an accompanying Summary will not be considered.

Learning should be assessed through performance. We have to know do our students have enough knowledge to start the school year, the term and even more challenging and the most important - will they be able to start the lesson today? As teachers we have to create simple and adoptive lesson plans that work for most of the students in the class. My research is focused on assessing lead-in activities combined with warm up activities and creating good lesson plans.
I gathered information for three years and I came upon the results of students' improvement. They were graded at the beginning of the lesson and I have created a lesson plan upon the grading results. Therefore I grade my students more effectively that means that students are aware of their stage of knowledge at the beginning of the lesson and they are prepared for the next stage.
Technology is another key point in creating a great lesson plans. I found Kahoot as a perfect tool that works for all of us teachers and students. I would like to present some of the kahoot.it activities, strategies and options. Of course there are many more IT educative platforms that we can use in our classes. Here I would mention edmodo.com and padlet.com, realtimeboard.com, socrative.com and many more.