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

Hi group! This article is about teaching models (unit 5th in Natalia's subject). Although some models are different from the ones Natalia has explained us today, I think is interesting because has an explanation about how to use them in class. So we could see what a wide range of teaching models we have and the goals we could expect using them with our students.

Hi mates! In this website you could find word games, quizzes, songs, printable worksheets and a lot of ESL resources for parents and teachers. I wish you find it useful!

Awesome! This is one of the most interesting contents that I've seen on this platform. I especially love the songs of this web. Nevertheless, during my school experience, I didn't work with this kind of resources.

really interesting and useful!

Günter Gerngross demonstrates a TPR sequence with a class of children using Playway Second edition. The children learn vocabulary using mimes, gestures and drawings on the board. You can find out more about Playway if you want. It is just an example.

Hello Miriam! I really believe that this is one of the most effective methods of teaching English to children. It's good to remember this methodology from time to time. Also, I want to share with you another video quite interesting (to see how learn Spanish with this methodology) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfnrYerYbY

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! 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!

Hi! I'd like to share with you this video in which three kids make a roleplay simulating they are travel agents. They plan together a trip to Japan and I really recommend you the video because you will see many aspects we have wordked in class. I hope you enjoy it :)

Now I want to share with you this website which includes a lot of games for primary educations learnes. There's a huge variety of games and all of them are clasified taking into account the learnes age. This a quite good way to implement ICT's in our lessons.

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.

Hi everyone! I have found an interesting web page I would like to share with all of you. In this web site you will find interesting information about cooperative and collaborative Learning. You will find 4 different sections: Explanation, demonstration, exploration and implementation. The first section explains different aspects related to this technique, the second one includes real-world examples and information on how to make cooperative and collaborative learning work in your classroom, the third section provides practical options for forming different kinds of groups for specific purposes and finally the fourth section offers some hints when using this interesting teaching technique. I hope you find it useful!

This website offers interactive ebooks graded by age