week 7, the end is near.....

Well, this week tasks reminds me how good would  it be to had a teacher who encourage my autonomous learning during my schools days? Now as an adult, it`s been very hard at the beginning but as everything if you work hard there will be no limits for us. This week also contact my peer for pair group work Aparna who as I can see, she is an excellent teacher and she is pretty involved in the course. I hope next week we can share the draft for feeding back ideas and comments. thats all for now, much work to do for next week. See you then.

week 6 making the change

As I see, this week work was very interesting and rewarding according to one of the topics from discussion.... which is large classes effectiveness. It has been one of my weakess points during my 6 years on the job because everytime you work in large classes you always need to have a plan B because of the students misbehave or things are not going like we want to.
So I like when I read Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw`s article about it because it put my ideas in order. It happened to me like the article said "Students are rarely asked to process their learning, and discussions are limited." so How can I get a feedback from if they didn`t want to ask something?
According to them there are some considerations we may follow to lead our students to a effective learning, those are for example having a variety of materials for lectures, include pacing accordint to their way of learning, interesting lectures, setting up routines to make them work all in the same way, etc.
I really think that if I consider these ideas on my future plans there will a chance to work in a positive way and it will encourage my students to engage their learning and make the constructivist process easier for them.
On the other hand, when we talk about powerpoint presentations I always complaint about the way people work with it by fulliing information that can be read in a worksheet instead of read it in front of the audience. As a result I realize all the factors we may consider in the constrution of a ppt in order to make it accurate and undestandable to the audience because as the pdf article says the less info in the template and more body language you have, the lecture will be clear and motivated to the hearing.
Finally the "nickname" of my project (it isn`t the official) it is " Technology apply in the use of english language". the project will focus on giving my students opportunities to work topics from classes so they can practice more and deeper in their homes. Every level will have a different place on a website which It will build and by using rubrics or tools given by the course I will be able to feedback effectively their leaning in order to enhace their language acquisition. that`s all for now. See you then, I don`t know if this is how Robert ask us to work with the project task week 6.

week 5 half way

This week work was oriented on the integration of PBL and rubrics on our Practices. In my case rubrics are very common in my practices but here we can realize how important are in the educational process we are managing in our schools and also in a way our students are very grateful with the use of it to make the evaluation more fair and accurate. Talking on PBL, I`ve never heard on the way we read and work during this week so it was an important issue to take into account in the following semester with my students. Finally , I know how my project will be and what will be its objectives. Thanks and see you then.

week 4 and coming

Well dear blog this week has been very workable and engaging. First I always thought that my weakest point as a english teacher is the writing part because sometimes when you use aural or spoken language even when you are leading the communication you also can use body language and eventually a higher percent of the people will follow you. However, when writing comes, all people don`t pay too much attention to grammar which is the WAY on which we MUST use the language correctly and stiick with this issue is the fact all people that use language as as second one tend to use grammar their grammar structures instead fo english ones and as an example in spanish whenever the sentence was first is the noun and then the adjective but in english the order is all the way down. So as you can see for me isn`t a easy task to deal with. But according to the reading articles there is more than one option to overcome writing and also there are many things or situations which we may consider solutions to face this issue. thanks for all and see you next week.