Analyzing Main Concepts

What distinguishes a diary from a log in the context of journaling?

• Diaries only record happenings.

• Diaries focus solely on professional growth.

• Diaries include personal feelings in addition to events.

• Diaries are structured forms of reflective writing.

What is the primary focus of reflective journals?

• Recording happenings

• Professional growth

• Deliberative thoughts and analysis

• Personal feelings derived from events

How do learning journals help students with their personal development?

• By giving them the opportunity to write their homework.

• By helping them to make choices about what to include or not in their journal.

• By providing extra information about topics seen in previous classes.

• By taking notes about what is written on the board.

What advantage is associated with the use of learning journals in student education?

• Students solely take on the role of the teacher.

• Students become passive learners.

• Students become both teachers and learners simultaneously.

• Students lose the ability to reflect on their experiences.

When turning the learning journal into a dialogue, who participates in it??

• Teacher - parents.

• Parents - individual students.

• Authorities - teachers.

• Individual students - teachers.

What is one advantage of using learning journals for students?

• Journals supress the needs of teachers.

• Journals allow students to assume both the teacher and the learner roles.

• Journals replace the simple note-takingg.

• Journals are an easier way of copying what isonn the board.

Which is one of the focus of the Assessment when talk about learners' experiences.

• If Ss. are writing what they are supposed to write.

• If Ss. are keeping a record of their experiences useful for their learning.

• If Ss. are maintaining a correct layout in their journal.

• If Ss. are helping each other to remember experiences.

What is the specific purpose of a professional journal?

• Recording happenings

• Personal reflection

• Professional growth

• Deliberative thoughts and analysis

What does Bolton (2001) suggests about students when preparing their journal?

• That they need to question, explore and analyze their learning and experiences.

• That they need to plan what they will do for their journal.

• That Ss. have to write their journal by themselves.

• That they're going self-assess their work.

Why might expressing themselves become less daunting for students using learning journals?

• Because they write about things are not familiar to them.

• Because they do not need to write and take notes regularly.

• Because they can write about things that are familiar for them.

• Because they are not able to think critically.