This is not the end.

Well this is the saddest part. We are on the edge of the course, but at the beginning of an enormous sea of knowledge.  When I started the course I was so scared, about how much I have to learn. I used to wake up and take away extra energy. But passed the first exam I realized that I was enjoying the course. And then everything was easier.

When I started the classes, I used to think that for being a teacher the knowledge would be enough. FALSE!! To be a teacher you need to be: a friend, a psychology, a father, a guide… etc. Now I know that it is not an easy job. But I am not afraid now I think that I have started the correct path, well perhaps I have not started it yet, but I know which the correct one is.

Maybe at this point of my career I am not everything that I need to be a teacher. But I have gotten some tools to grown in different aspects not just as a teacher, even in my life, as student, as son, as classmate…

Now for me, the next step would be stay in the path, take the TKT exam and see how I go, continue looking for courses, classes, get my degree, then a master in education, everything that I find. And then maybe I could become into a TEACHER.

Now I am anxious to find more knowledge, what I already know is as I said in my first post ‘A drop in the sea’. I need to fill it. And something is sure… this is not the end.

 

 

You are going to listen about me soon.

My best for you and I hope you will become in a wonderful teacher soon.

Backtalking.. Uff!.

Here we go…

(click on the image to see a real backtalk)

…After 3 weeks of intensive classes, it is our 4th week. I am happy and motivated to finish this little drop in the sea.

Now we are learning about classroom management. This is a very important point in this course, because now we are learning somethings completly news for some of us. I think that in this topic we need to improve our human senses, because we need to learn how to relate with children. It could be a good idea cheking some psychology books. And that is great, I love psychology.

In the link, which Ellen post it at first, we could see a kind of guide for our future as a teachers. We must keep in mind those questions in order to be a good teacher. We need to be a different teacher.

In the second link, we see one of the most important problems in a classroom: dicipline. And there Dr. Fred Jones show us how to calm down the situation, we must understand that we could not be as another student, we are the teacher come on, we must act as a grown person. And I know that is easy to lose control, but as far as possible try to transmit our pace and calm to the learners.

Something that I consider like a waste of time in classrooms is that the teacher always is trying to shut up the learners, that it is not fair, they have to speak, express themselves, because as Ellen said: ”It is not what you say, It is HOW you say it”. You could encourage the students to speak in order to always learn something. Even from a common chat.

I hope learn a lot in this module, I am really interested.

Boom’s taxonomy… ?

 

Hi guys!

 

After a little break in this blog, I am here again with a new topic… Boom’s taxonomy.

Well at first, the name tells me nothing. When I started with the lecture, I have no idea what taxonomy means.

Taxonomy: It is the practice and science of clasification.

With this I could start, because for a teacher it is completly useful, it is the way you are going to clasficate the student’s knowledge. And in this way you will know if the student really is learning in all the aspects that he should.

This tool it could be used with all the ages, and all the levels of English, that’s why is a good idea to work.

 

I got this idea, about How we could use it in a class.

1st.- The student listen a conversation between two close friends.

2nd.- They will recognise the leguage used, and listed informal words

3rd.- They will paraphrase the same conversation but using a formal vocabulary.

4th.- They will write down the two conversation (formal and informal) and they will compare, and find the differences.

5th.- They will judge in what cases is useful wich lenguage?

6th.- They could invent situation and try the two lenguages to compare them and see which one is better in each situation.

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Well it was my impression of this topic.

What do you thing?

 

 

You will read more about me..

See you soon. ”)

 

glOgscar…

 

Well I dicided to be an intrepid guy and this is my Glogster..

 

 

(to see it bigger, click on the image)

HOT TOPIC!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on! Lets create a debate…

How much it is up to the teacher, and how much it is for the student in the learning process?

Do you thing, that a good teacher forms a good student, or the good students form a good teacher?

Move your mouth.

Hi class, this Post is about… How engaged students to speak English?

Easy, just make it funny!

In this link you will find some ways about how to aim students to speak, using different methods. The main characteristic is that they will be speaking, while they are playing.

I use this link is called Audioboo. (clikc on the image below)

Now check how it works.

Audioboo is a site where you must register an account and then start to speak and record your messages.

In this way you could share what you want with the world.

Some times with teenagers could be a little hard lead them to speak, because at this age, all of them are shy and they need an extra motivation to do it.

In class this activity should be perfect for them, they will find it like a game, because they could use it even on their cellphones, so they will record some speech, about any topic at their houses, and then they will share it with the class, even with the world.

Other extra point is that it could be published on twitter or Facebook, and with this social networks all the interest is goning to be on it.

Then I hope students use it as a social network and they will practice by themself.

I hope it could be useful!. ”D

LITERACY CIRCLES.

This post is about a new way of read; but it is not just a new way of read, it is a new way of understand text structures.

When we read, many times we just pass our eyes over the words, we do not put attention into the main sentences, the ideas. With this reading strategy, we are involved in a complete way of improve our reading skills and our receptive skills.

For me It was a completly new activity, it was a little stressed, because you must to complete in an specific time. Actually I had problems with the skimming, because even in spanish it is difficult for me and under pressure.. Just imgine.

At first you only have a brainstorm of some ideas when you are doing your prediction of the text, with something that put you in context. Then you have the oportunity of share with your team, because every one has an specific assignment. And the way you improve all your subskills is switching tasks.

At least after this activity your students have done an intensive reading, reading for details, predicting ideas, deducing meaning from the context and they will get a total comprehension of the text.

For me it was a great and new idea to lead the students to read. Because sometimes they do not read because they do not have motivations, or just because thay think that it is a boring acitivity. We could do it interesting and funny for them and at the same time they are improving their skills.

Try it, you will not regret. ”)