Group items tagged

Good evening people! I want to show you an interesting article. This is a very complete article about Total Physical Response. I have searched about this topic, because was one of the most attractive contents that we learnt the last year. In this article we can see all about TPR, why we must to apply it in young children, what is TPR, its main characteristics, advantages and there are even examples to develop this method in class, linked to storytelling. With this method, children can learn by a motivate and dynamic way, as you already know. Only with a friendly environment, some coloured cards and the leading of the teacher, the pupils can enjoy much.

I want to share this article as a last point of view of self-assessment. For all my classmates who still have doubts. There are some examples of rubrics for techers, to value their own work in a course, in a lesson... These rubrics do reference to different aspects/domains like Planning, the Environment, the Teaching/Learning process and Professional development. We can found in each rubric the aspects that a teacher must to carry out to get a distinguished process.

Hi mates, I want share a page with you that is really useful for the teachers, I never had listened speak about it. This page going to allow you work of a very easy way the foreign language with very useful watchings, readings, writings, speakings... You will can work with dinamic and motivate activities all the skills with your pupils, I'm sure that the guys will enjoy while they learn. You can also press the button "teaching english" and the page will take a teachers profile and you can found other very useful resources. I know that this page goes a little out of the script of our contributions in Diigo, I know that it's a very practical page, but I considered that I should share it with my classmates, I believe that this kind of page should also be shared here in Diigo. THANKS SO MUCH!

it is a video about the importance of planning. All of us have our own opinion and is important to listen other points of views/opinions or ideas. Also, i attach other video about the same theme, but it is an example: talking about the lesson planning process. In my opinion is clear and easy to understand I hope you find interesting. If you know how to make a concept map, you can find easier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkTauEKg2bo&feature=related

Hi folks! Searching on the Internet I have found an interesting article that includes a set of communicative activities that we can develop in the classroom. As we have been studying, one of the big challenges that language teachers face is to promote the skills of speaking and oral interaction. In several of the case studies the teachers express the difficulties they have developing oral language. However, as a language teacher it's really important to know what counts as speaking in language learning and how to promote such skills. I think that these are the advantages of using this kind of activities in the classroom: More exposure to the target language More authentic opportunities to use the foreign language Fun and interesting for learners These activities provides opportunity to use authentic materials Nevertheless, I consider that there is a big problem that we have to take into account: Learners can be resistant, specially if they are accustomed to teacher-centred styles of teaching. I hope you find it useful!

Good Morning mates! I have found this article of Cambridge where explains for to create effective language lessons. But I want to do reference in pages 35-42 because we can solve doubts we have about planning, is very simple. Here explains the advantages (is a road map for the teacher, provides security, determines sequencing and timing) Also, this article advises us about the essential aspects to take into account to develop an effective plan, as the way to approach goals, groupings, resources. It´s very easy to understand, and only in seven pages!

Primary Resources - free worksheets, lesson plans and teaching ideas for primary and elementary teachers. it is a page when you can find different resources, on the left, if you click on: English, you find English resources, please check some of them. I have been watching some of sentence level and is interesting to use in class, maybe it will be helpful for our pupils. What do you think?

Hello class! This is a useful document if you want to know more about cooperative learning. It's from a Spanish educator and I think that solves a lot of doubt about this way of teachng. It's very related with the activity that we did with Natalia the Monday before, but I think we also can learn a lot about classroom management.

Hello everybody! This is a video about task-based learning in Japan. I think it's very interesting because they have to complete a timetable with cards and these have pictures and short texts. I invite you to see it, because it's no long and it's shows that children can learn a lot by doing, and they can practise speaking skill in a low stress atmosphere in groups.

Hi fellows! This web talks about the importance of knowing the characteristics and features of our future students. According to the author, we should use a classroom seating chart in order to learn the names of the students fairly quickly, because remembering the students' names right in the beginning of the school year helps to develop a more personal and direct contact. On the other hand, the article emphasizes that we should teach and remind students at all times of the class procedures: * Listening to instructions before being directed to performing a task given. * During the work task Procedures. * Terminating the task on-hand. See you!

Hello again! Teaching, learning and classroom management depends on effective planning. Thanks to planning the teacher receives feedback on the effectiveness of the decisions made during the planning process, and modify and change those decisions when the students require it. Planning is based on values, so it is important that teachers are aware of how their own values can inform decision-making. Besides, this web points out that the main goals of the application of classroom planning function and formulate an effective plan that suggests seven fundamental principles: staff involvement, flexibility, stability, continuity, simplicity, review.

Hello! During the last few months, Assessment has been a very important part of our lessons since the very beginning. But how can we make assessment meaningful? In this web page you will find the answer to this question. It also includes some rubrics that could be helpful in this matter (they can be downloaded).

Very clear, I like the strutures of the criteria to garanty meaningful assessment,,, It is a good framework to follow.

the criteria to follow is very clear. I think it could be a good framework to follow and check about meaningful assessments. I like it a lot!

Hello, class! I've found an useful Web to work with ICT in the school. It's very intuitive for the teachers and it's attractive for the pupils. It's has a variety of activities. I think that to know this kinds of resources can help the teachers to attend the diversity. I hope you like it!

Hi everyone! I want to share with you this amazing video that can help us for a better understanding of a concept that we studied last week (differentiated instruction) and also it can help us to be aware that this strategy can be put into practice in the classroom. I would like to comment briefly some ideas that the video shows: The teacher takes into account the different learning styles of the students trying to work the maximum number of multiple intelligences in designing activities. Remember that catering for the different learning styles does not mean that we have to develop eight different versions of every activity we do in the classroom. But it means that at the end of that a lesson or a didactic unit we should have given opportunities for the different learning styles. Besides, I want to highlight the good atmosphere that the teacher fosters, always respecting the views and personal opinions of all students. I consider that if students feel comfortable in the group they will be more open to learning and may develop a more positive attitude towards the language they are studying. Finally, the teacher promotes both individual, pair and group work. Flexible grouping was defined by Redencich and Mackay (1995:11) as "grouping that is not static, where members of the reading group change frequently." Flexible grouping is another measure to be adopted in the classroom in order to attend the diversity. I hope that this material can be useful for our personal training. See you!

Hello Group!!! It's a very good web page and very useful for us. In this PDF we can find information about planning. It answers different questions, like for example, why is planning important, what aspects you have to include in a lesson plan, etc. On the other hand, the guide also explains us five aspects that must be included in a lesson plan: -Learning Objectives -Assessments -Activities -Materials and Resources -Wrap-up and Reflection Finally, the guide includes an appendix with three resources as: Lesson Plan Templates; Sample Lesson Plan and Sample Rubrics. It's very recommendable for young teachers because it explains very well the importance of planning

Hi mates! I have found a very interesting page. I have considered it important because it's something really useful to understand this topic at the three subjects. This page speaks about the scaffolding, we know that it's an element very interesting to our future lessons at the school. In this page you will found some scaffolding techniques that will support us some ways that will help us to bring closer the knowledge to our pupils that at first could be a bit complicated for them. I hope you find it useful!

Hi class! I have found an article in which you can read the importance about action research. This artcile give us some opinions of teachers or researchers that can solve possible doubts about the importance of action research. I think that it give us enough evidences that advice us to be action researchers in the future. See you soon!! =)

Clear and easy to read. It helped me to understand some mental gaps that I had. Thank you!

Hello again! This web have links to fun activities that we can use the interactive board. The activities are very visual and they are differentiated by levels. It shows the posibilities offered by this new resource which is also attractive for children.

Hello class! Here you have a web with interesting documents about diversity. I think it's useful because it presents a very different view of the diversity of "special educational needs". It is intended for foreign language teachers in primary. I hope you like it!