Mención de Lengua Extranjera 2012-2013 (UMA) (Grupo de Tarde

This entry is about Word walls. They are not only a great tool for the early grades, but can be used all the way through high school.

It looks really nice! I think classroom walls can be an excellent way for teachers help their pupils develop and reinforce the learned topics. They provide subtle reminders of new and important knowledge.

This webpage is a community of teachers wich share their experiences and their knowledge in order to improve and to help to the teaching community. Here we can find from tips and tricks to articles, debate forums and even a "find job" section. Enjoy it!

Here you have a interesting video, I think that it can help our to learn more about assessment for learnig. I would like to stand out an approach of feedback, they said the feedback must be descriptive and continous. I believe it could be useful.

Hi classmates: This is a collection of books for young learners. As children read these quality storybooks, not only are they boosting their reading skills, but they are also learning socially responsible tools for life. I think it will be very useful for our pupils.

Assessment for learning Principles

Interesting cooperative games for our primary pupils

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!

Hi mattes! You can find here lots of resources to help you learn about appropriate methods of assessment in language classrooms.

Hello! I want to share with you this blog entry about the top-down processing of language. "Whole language" is a method of teaching children to read by recognizing words as whole pieces of language. Whole language is an approach to teaching reading and writing which differs in many ways from the traditional system in which most of us learned to read and write. Proponents of the whole language philosophy believe that language should not be broken down into letters and combinations of letters and "decoded." Instead, they believe that language is a complete system of making meaning, with words functioning in relation to each other in context. You can also check the following websides: http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/glossaryofliteracyterms/WhatIsATopDownReadingModel.htm http://www.avko.org/Essays/whole_language.htm http://www.sabes.org/resources/publications/fieldnotes/vol10/f02abrah.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/read.htm

This is a presentation that explains some key concepts of Assessment. What are characteristics of good classroom assessment? The guiding principles that govern good test design, development and analysis are validity, reliability, practicality.

Hello!! This article is about Oral Instructions to EFL Young Learners. It is a great way for teachers to get the big picture of classroom management and to know how to control pupils' behaviour, using an according vocabulary.

On this webside you will find a series of intersting articles by Littlejohn. The article "Language teaching in schools: What do students learn? (1995)" describes learning outcomes which go beyond and beneath the (simple) aims of a syllabus.

Ummm, really interesting documents to better our lessons. First, I tried the one about sharing decisions with the students and I must say it is very clarifying about how to provide decision making for pupils so that they could be more engaged with the learning.