Strategies.
Text tour: the teacher makes a revision of a text and explains all the steps she follows in order to understand it. She gives advices to the students about going first to the images attached to the text ,and used them to get a general idea.
This strategy show us the "thinking-out-loud model" in which the teacher explains how she performs the activity of reading. without giving order, just suggesting what to do to understand a text.
For me this strategy is useful because is not authoritarian. Moreover, The students are eager to learn what your strategies to learn are. How you do it to learn.
Teacher Stories: The teacher tells an authobiographical story. To catch their students attention she uses pantomime and is very expressive with her words.
I think that tell our students a true story about us is great, because with them we can share with them about us, creating stronger relationships with them. It is also important the way in which we tell the story. We can used several non-verbal aids to make our stories funnier and to catch our students attention.
The last strategy was not so clear for me. But I think that the first two are very good and I would like to used them in my class. I like to tell stories but I am not so good with the non-verbal expression (I will have to work on that). Anyway, I think that both startegies help to create an environment of trust in the classroom.
THE CLASROOM STORY.
About my future students
What I would like to know about my future students?
When I start to teach next year. I think that there is some important information, I would like to know about my students. This information can be very useful in the preparation of the material to teach.
I´d like to know:
- What their main interests are. (hobbies, likes and dislikes)
- How worried about their children´s education their parents are.
- What their level of English is.
- How proficent in Spanish they are.
- What kind of resources my students have access to.
- What different groups in the class are.
Run_ons...............My Bad!!
Some of my errors with punctuation....my bad!
Learning a new language can result very difficult because of this I believe that stablish conections between the previous learning of the students and the new language can be help to create comprehensible input and help to reduce the affective filter of our students.
Learning a new language can result very difficult. Because of this, I believe that stablish conections between the previous learning of the students and the new language, can help to create comprehensible input and help to reduce the affective filter of our students.
In order to apply this principle in my classroom I would try to link the information from other subjects with the teaching of language, integrating the disciplines.
In order to apply this principle in my classroom, I would try to link the information from other subjects with the teaching of language; integrating the disciplines.
several times we see in clasrooms lists of grammar exercises, we work in laboratories in wich we listen tapes again and again.
several times we see in clasrooms lists of grammar exercises; we work in laboratories, in which, we listen tapes again and again.
Because of the use that teachers have given to the technological devices. The kind of activities they develop have the same characteristics that the traditional activities have such as teacher-centered activities, students do not move from their seats or silence is the golden rule.
Because of the use that teachers have given to the technological devices. The kind of activities they develop have the same characteristics that the traditional activities have; such as teacher-centered activities, students do not move from their seats or silence is the golden rule.
The proud, the principal and the teachers show about the school was so big that I think that this was a trigger for the motivation of the students and for the success of this school.
The proud, the principal and the teachers show about the school was so big, that I think that, this was a trigger for the motivation of the students.That explains the success of this school.
Blog Reflection "ESL/EFL Teaching. Principles for Success" Chapters 2, 6 and 10
I think is important to put our students in a friendly enviromment when we are going to teach them something that, most of the times, is an unfamiliar for them. Learning a new language can result very difficult because of this I believe that stablish conections between the previous learning of the students and the new language can be help to create comprehensible input and help to reduce the affective filter of our students.
In order to apply this principle in my classroom I would try to link the information from other subjects with the teaching of language, integrating the disciplines. Speaking in english about the topics my students are learning can result in a "win & win" situation, because I as a teacher can introduce language content and I can also make a revision of the students knowledge of the others areas of learning.
Learning takes places in social interaction.
Many times teachers tend to forget that we are teaching a language and do not remember what a language implies. Language is communication, teachers seem to do not have this in mind when they create their activities. Many times the teaching of a language is seen as any other subject, as a science, because several times we see in clasrooms lists of grammar exercises, we work in laboratories in wich we listen tapes again and again.
Social interaction is vital in learning a language in my teaching. I think I will do a lot of group work, pair dialogues and debates. The development of the social skills in our students is one of the most important abilities to develop in the school.
Faith in the learner expands student potential.
I think that this is one of the critical points in the chilean education. I have heard many times that teachers just criticize their students and do not believe in their potential. When I first have a class here in the states I was surprised about the amount of praise the class received during the class, most of the time the teacher is reinforcing the effort of the students with a good comment (well done, good, nice, etc) I think that we have to be more positive in the way we see our students in Chile.
Homework: You can choose one of the following for your homework. Either compose a letter to Alanis explaining what she doesn’t seem to know about irony OR rewrite the song so that it DOES contain instances of irony.
Alanis Morissette - Ironic lyrics
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's as tasty as a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's just in time as a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?
It's lovely as rain on your wedding day
It's timely as a free ride when you've already paid
It's nice as the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought? It figures!...
CHAPTER 6 Learning take place in social interaction
3. Technology has often led to LESS interaction in language classrooms. Why? How can we "fix" this? Create some activities that demostrates how technology can be used to lead to more interaction.
Because of the use that teachers have given to the technological devices. The kind of activities they develop have the same characteristics that the traditional activities have such as teacher-centered activities, students do not move from their seats or silence is the golden rule.
We can fix this by using the technology as a place to gather, the internet is a source that can enable us to have social connections between our students outside the classroom, this can help to reinforce the social relationships in the school.
Activities:
The creation of blogs to interact outside the classroom.
Make a movie using computer programs (group project)
Collaborative creation of posters (different purposes)
L2 students have to send e-mails to native English speakers (pen pal letters)
Teaching demo: Teaching language through content
Teaching Demo: Teaching language through content
Content focus: The Discovery of the Americas.
Grade level: 2do Medio.
1. Write objectives on the board.
Content objective: History: The discovery of the americas.
Language objective: Listening comprehension, Writting past tenses.
In groups of four people each of them go to de URL and listening for the first time the video, the teacher asks for doubts. Now teacher gives the following questions to each group:
1. How was the skin of the people in the eastern side?
2. How did they think the earth was?
3. How did Colombus think the earth was like?
4. What was the name of the queen who supported Colombus trip?
5. Where did Colombus Wanted to go?
6. What were the name of the three ships Colombus had?
7. When the travel started?
8. How many months lasted the travel?
9. What name Colombus put to the island?
10. Where Colombus really was?
11. How many voyages did Colombus made after his fisrt travel?
In the computer students work freely stoping and rewinding as they wish to find the answers, to complete the questions they will have twenty minutes. To finish the activity, the teacher provides the right answers.