We teachers spend most of our time preparing lessons, designing activities, creating worksheets and handouts. Personally, I can spend a whole weekend preparing the perfect handout let's say on "the present simple". Then I come to class feeling I've done a great wonderful job, I deliver it to my students with a proud sense of contribution to their files.
But: How can I make sure they won't throw the handout to the bin???
Easy peasy!! When I cook a new dish (from time to time I like experimenting in the kitchen, I take a recipe book and voilà! I've cooked something brand new to my palate. My husband - poor him- is always my "guinea pig" but he's an excellent culinary critic. As I serve the plate, I wait a few minutes and ask him to rate my dish and tell me what things I could do to improve it (less salt, a pinch of pepper maybe, some garlic perhaps...)
So I thought it could be a great idea to ask my students "how to improve my handouts?" Bigger format, add some colour, include a chart... and Voilà! the perfect handout "ready to use" and more importantly, tested by my most demanding critics, comes out from the working oven and I can have the certainty it won't end up in the bin!
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