Hi dear teachers from the four (or more) corners of the world :)

Last night I was trying to find some good exercises in the ocean of the worksheets:  My Eslprintables Archive!!! But I got drowned in order to find a drop in the ocean. There are lots of amazing contributions here, and I’m sure you are all building up your own collection. But how many of them did you really use? Which ones proved to be really useful? How useful were the ones you used in your classes? Only the ones who used a particular worksheet would know how well it worked. But why don’t we let the others know?

So here’s my suggestion: We can vote a ws according to some criteria, after we use it for real. We can define a range of point (1 to 3, or 1 to 5) for each criterion, and anyone can make his/her own evaluation. I could think of these criteria:

USEFULNESS (EFFECTIVENESS) – A ws may do wonders in the class although it is not very appealing at the first sight. Or just the opposite, a good-looking ws may bring disastrous results when you use it for one of your classes.
ATTRACTIVENESS – You know kids love the colourful wss with pictures, but it’s a bit different when the worksheets are for adults.
ADAPTABILITY – I guess everyone would make some adaptations according to their own way of teaching.
DEFINITION- When looking for wss to use, reading the owner’s definition is one of the things that is necessary for me to decide if it is what I want or not. But you know, some people don’t bother to tell what their ws consists of.
SUITABLENESS FOR THE STATED LEVEL – I had to face the fact that some of the wss are not defined well in terms of level. I noticed some wss which were defined to be elementary (by the owner of the ws), but they were not for elementary students in fact.

For instance one of the worksheets can be voted like this:
USEFULNESS + + +
ATTRACTIVENESS   + + + + +
ADAPTABILITY + +
DEFINITION + +
SUITABLENESS + + + +

There is a drawback with my suggestion. I cannot think of how we can understand if the people who evaluated a ws really used it or not. It won’t be any benefit unless the wss are evaluated by people who really used them in their classes and saw what their pros and cons are.

I guess I am being too much idealistic but this is just a suggestion which can be considered, discussed and taken further. I am looking forward to seeing what people think?

I ´m new here but really I think that ´s something everyone of us should do in our own archive.