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This is a video I think everybody should see. It is the story behind Finland´s educational system. The reason for tagging this video is the general idea you get for their success. It shows us the theory we are studying and the possible application. Although I don´t think it is possible to implement this system in Spain because of the big social and cultural differences it gives you a good idea about how it could be. In the video they talk about the differences, their curriculum, assessment, objectives, planning, tasks, their aims, some activities, the way students are invited to make their own decisions etc. Have a look, it's a real eye opener.

I´ve been fascinated with this documentary. It´s very interesting and amazing the educational process in Finland. Really I would like to learn much of this system, but the first thinking come to my mind is we are years behind. I understand is other culture and society, when they speak about the trust in everybody related with education, is something unthinkable here, by bad luck. This is a very recommendable video, you don´t believe you are going to lose an hour see it. I´ve finished very motivated, and I would want to know more closer this system, if could possible, visiting Finland.

In recent years, many programmes and projects related to multilingualism have increased and have been implemented in educational centers all over Europe. Many of these programmes are already present in different educational areas in both compulsory and non-compulsory levels. This trend is motivated by the guidelines of the European Union (EU) that directs its work towards a multilingual society. According to the EU, one of the challenges of the current society is to train students to master different languages, to promote intercultural dialogue and a greater social cohesion and integration. The present text provides a sample of a CLIL unit planning procedure to give answer to some of the questions regarding methodology and materials design arising among the bilingual teaching community. Well mates, we think that in this issue we can see a lesson planning procedure to be used in a CLIL primary setting. This is a different methodological approach in current bilingual classrooms. The text provides a planning tool for unit planning for content and language integrated as well a series of strategies aimed at achieving the necessary objectives for successful bilingual teaching. The development of this unit planning procedure allowed the teacher to anticipate to the demands of the students in the necessary tools to develop the tasks assigned for a proper acquisition of content knowledge and language skills.

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (CLPT) annually takes care of making a chart with the top 100 educational tools. Educational tools that appear in the chartare for example youtube or google docs, so they have included in the list, every TIC tool wich would be useful for educational purposes.

This article presents a reflection about evaluation process of EFL in Primary Education. It also offers the principles of evaluation, as well as teachers' daily duties,which require them to observe, keep records, and analyze the evaluation process. It deals with the influence that the European Framework has in the evaluation of pupils' capacities in Primary.

I really like the activity that appears on page 72. I think it is an activity that can be used perfectly in class and it can be very useful to teachers in order to know the evolution of their pupils in the five skills. Thanks for this contribution.

As Jorge said, I like so much the activity that appears on page 72, I think that it is really useful for us in the future! I'm going to surfing the internet and I'm going to try found some activities like this!! Good work! =)

Hello! I found an amazing website about an interesting method of second language teaching. The website has a lot of information explained very clearly with videos, graphics, and schemes. This method is really good to get the best of each pupil, each rhythm of learning and give everybody the same opportunities. You can take many ideas!!! Enjoy it and learn a lot!!!

I found an interesting article on assessment for learning. It gives you a clear idea of what it is, the aims, benefits… all explained in a very clear way. What I liked most about this article is the practical example of where and how assessment for learning can be used. At the end of the article you can find some useful links to other articles on assessment.

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.

Hi again mates! Today I would like to share with you a website which I found on the website of the Ministry of Education. I consider that it's a very interesting web because primary students can learn in a fun and effective way. It contains two levels of difficulty and a wide variety of activities that can be performed. Each topic is presented through funny flash animations and games. The objective of these exercises is to practice vocabulary, pronunciation, visual acuity and memory in a funny way with varied and colorful characters. I hope that you really enjoy it. I think that it can be really useful. See you soon!

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!

Hi class: This is a about Storytelling. Storytelling is an art that has mental, social and educational benefits on children. People of all ages love stories. Children are great fans of stories and love to listen to them. Storytelling literally means reading out stories to them or just telling a story from the memory to them. I think this is an important resource for teaching EFL.

Very interesting and useful! i add to my collection of resources and readings :)

This article is about the educational uses of Digital Storytelling. Telling and listening to stories is an ancient tradition that can benefit foreign language learners of all ages, languages, and levels of proficiency. Stories contain linguistic, paralinguistic, discourse, and cultural features that provide the comprehensible input and output that students need to develop their oral skills. As with traditional storytelling, you tell stories using computer-based tools, usually contain some mixture of images, text, recorded audio, narration, video clips and/or music.

Hi classmates! This would be my second input, but I don't know why… But it has been deleted and only is the comment that I used for the description… Now, I would like share with you this page. Here I have been reading and listening very interesting videos which talk about some topics of our subjects. Terms as: assessment strategies, feedback, for example, are analyzed by Dylam William, he is director of the Learning and Teaching Research Center at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and if you pay attention to the explanations you will check that their words have not waste... I have attached also an image done by me, where you can check all the possibilites that offers this page. This is the link: http://subefotos.com/ver/?b929a103e34cef5fc75b7c71df2cd12eo.png

Here you have a small article of 5 pages which I found very interesting to share with you. In this article we can find interesting issues about assessment for learning. The article says that: "Classroom assessment that involves students in the process and focuses on increasing learning can motivate rather than merely measure students." When students are active characters of their own education the outcomes are better. Also gives interesting clues about how to involve students in their own teaching-learning process and have a section about effective teacher feedback. Contains reviews of many important authors. I advise my classmates that take a look at this article because it's really interesting.

Article about the problems with classroom management and the importance of good classroom management in EFL classes. The article shows us that classroom management is an important part of the curriculum.

Hello again! This web talks about multiple intelligences, a theme that we have studied last year and these days too. As we have talked in our classes, we can use different materials or tools in order to attend all types of intelligences because all people are different in different ways. We have to take into account the needs and interests of our pupils, we must be flexible teachers. I want to highlight one of the statements of Gardner that, to my mind, defines exactly what we have to do in the practice. "It's very important that a teacher take individual differences among kids very seriously. The bottom line is a deep interest in children and how their minds are different from one another, and in helping them use their minds well." On the other hand, if you want to know the intelligence that prevails in you, you can check out this page http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/Inteligencias+Multiples/profesorrod/test-de-inteligencias-multiples/ Till the next!

Hi classmates! This is my second contribution in diigo. Last week we had an exhibition of storytelling. One of the stories that the professional told us was "the very hungry caterpillar", written by Eric Carle. I strongly believe that tell our students this story could be very useful, especially because it contains lots of interesting vocabulary. Here, in this page, you can find plenty of activities that will reinforce the vocabulary learnt by the students. As we have seen this weeks in the university, English classroom is dominated by the textbook. It decides what we have to do in the classroom. Nevertheless, we can use a lot of resources in order to produce intrinsic motivation in our pupils. I consider that storytelling can be a good learning tool because it promotes among other things, creativity and imagination. Furthermore, if we use stories in class, we will encourage the development of language among students. Here you can read the story http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/Very_Hungry_Caterpillar_Printable_Booklet.PDF I hope you like it!

i like so much the story, easy and very useful for teachers

This is an interesting and briefly presentation about some different items that we have studied in that course. For instance, this presentation talks about premises of Curriculum, give definitions about content, objectives, CEFR structure... Also it´s talk in depth about communicative language competences and linguistic domains. For last, it´s talk about the 5 skills and the Common Reference levels o Language Proficiency (A1,A2,B1,B2...) Is very interesting because it teaches you that everything is related. In that website you can find another interesting presentations abour other tasks as portfolio... I would like to finish that summary with the last sentence of the presentation: "Don't be afraid to have an open-minded look to so many unknown and unfamiliar things around us… we have just to try to discover them unconditionally!Success!" I believe that this attitude is that we need to keep improving!!!