English Teaching Innovations: julio 2017

sábado, 29 de julio de 2017

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MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN PÚBLICA

Dirección Regional de Educación de Guápiles

Regional English Advisory

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Weekly Didactic Planning

I Period 2017 Level: 9^th grade subject: English

Target Content: Sports and Leisure Activities

Linguistic Objectives

Mediation Strategies

Evaluation of Learning Outcomes

LISTENING

Understanding extracts that include familiar material in unfamiliar contexts.
Understanding main ideas and details based on the given topic.

READING

Drawing conclusions from extended texts.
Reading understanding based on the given target contents

SPEAKING

Expressing ideas, interests, feelings, and concerns
Talking about leisure activities and common sports

WRITING

Writing paragraphs, using simple descriptive language, and referring to past, present and future actions and events.

Describing activities for having fun

Warm up: L participates in a brainstorming about sports and leisure activities by mentioning examples and writing them on the board.

Presentation

Pre-listening.

Teacher pronounces the sports or hobbies written on the board and gives a brief description of them.

While-listening

Sts. watch the video: "hobbies and favorite activities" add link, as they complete a matching exercise with pictures and names of sports that appear on the video.

Post-listening

The teacher asks some general questions to students based on the video. For example, which sports need a ball?, what activities can you practice inside your house? What’s your favorite leisure activity?

To get main ideas and some details the L works in a practice

The pre reading activities are to activate vocabulary that is necessary. The reading and post reading to recognize main features. L completes different exercises by reading two short texts on the studied topic. L works answering some reading exercises. The learner identifies the name of the sport and leisure activity by matching some drawings. NEED TO SEE THE TEXTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THIS PART.

The teacher and the students play jeopardy. Sts. must download the app called “sync buzzer” from Playstore. Sts. decide whether they play individually or in teams. (to set up this app everyone needs to be connected to the same WIFI connection. teacher logs in as the host and types a name for the game, students log in as players, type in their names and choose the game created by the teacher. Teacher unlocks the buttons for sts. to hit as soon as he finishes the question or sentence. This app allows the host/teacher see whoever hit the buzzer first.) Once the app is set up, the teacher reads out loud the sentences made by the sts. during the writing stage, while intentionally omitting one key word that sts. have to guess. For example: Lebron James is my favorite basketball player. Hugh Jackman plays the role of Wolverine in X-men, I listen to rock music on my cellphone. Whoever hits the buzzer first gets to answer, and points are added to each player/team for every correct answer.

The student speaks about favorite activities done for having fun

L plays a game using the app “sync buzzer” the learner plays in small groups asking questions about two leisure activities: watching tv and movies”

Some volunteers role play sports and leisure activities for the classmates to guess

The learner writes sentences on what he-she likes to practice or do in his/her free time.

Consolidation

The learners work in groups of three and create a role play using leisure activities and

Pre-writing

Sts. Rearrange a set of scrambled sentences. They compare sentences with their classmates to check if they are correct. They also look up/share meaning of new words.

Writing

Individually, sts. write down ten short sentences about specific leisure time activities asssigned by the teacher. For example: Lebron James is my favorite basketball player. Hugh Jackman plays the role of Wolverine in X.men, I listen to rock music on my cellphone.

Sts. Write brief sentences about leisure time activites.

Recognizing examples of sports and leisure activities

Matching pictures of leisure time activities with their corresponding names.

Understanding basic questions about sports and leisure time activities using key vocabulary.

Answering information questions

Describing a sport or leisure activity

Comments:

Need to organize the stages.

Tagxedo Means of Transportation , Sports , and Verbs

Comment: Tagxedo there is a interesting ways to use technology in a english class for students. I try on , a mean We have to adecuate that tools in my plans , there is interesting , there is really new for me ,

Reaction of the video LuciaPorras M

Digital Tools video reaction

Reaction Paper Digital Tools in Teaching and Learning English For Adults

Student: Jesus Vega Hernandez

Digital tools for Language Teaching and Learning of Foreign Language

Nowadays the technology is going to get a wherever territory the people living the newest and fastest users , just cause growing in children and teenagers minds, of course an adults have to adding technology, as mention as the update minds as smart phone, computers, labtops , tablets, ipon, video games advance or electronic device. We can stare when we go to the ATM for withdrawing money , or the kids when they want to do the homework they need a computer and log in on the internet online, currently they can do the research or assignments that is given by the professor, also students need to present a topic they usually use power point , it create different slide, you can communicate very fast through send an email to other place to other people around the world, absolutely , technology and english are joining together ,teens get manual computers , videos, applications, programs , news , into others a mean majority of this information gets an English, the issues could be that not all of people get technology in an easy form, sometimes depend on the environment that is happened in a person, there is not the same that kids spring as rural spot than kids spring as urban spot a mean there is the main problem in humanity. But the technology was , is going , will go , y a necessity for all of us . of course, for teacher when they talk about technology , some students could feel a little scare , or student could feel a great idea to see life easy , new and fast a mean , kids minds growing very fast . into the other hand , adults minds must update very fast , because the majority of things that we did, we do , we will do, it being greatest if we don’t scare if we don’t they ignore . Everything is easy, new and fast.

Reaction “Digital Tools for Language Teaching and Learning in Adults”

To present a topic in your own language is difficult, image how difficult it could be in another language. Yet you have to avoid do needless mistake that could ruin your demonstration and confuse your audience.

The host has a lot of positive aspect like the information about app, webpage, etc that can help you to develop a tedious or difficult topic in a classroom through technology. A negative aspect was the amount of writing data onto some of these power point presentation, the length of the performance (video) and the presenter had difficulties in her pronunciation of some words she said.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4fjoilw5y78T0x5SWZMQXJEN2M/view?usp=sharing

Using Aurasma

Using Aurasma you can see the history and a video related to the topic Holidays and Celebrations

jueves, 27 de julio de 2017

Reaction to the video “Digital Tools for Language Teaching and Learning in Adults”

Dania Villegas Ceciliano Universidad Latina de CR

Education has changed due to technology and the easy access to internet. Many years ago, the traditional education focused on the teacher, not on the learners. Nowadays, technology has impacted students in the way they obtain information and communicate. As a result, teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) has become a more demanding task. Teachers can use technology to share experiences and to accomplish the goal of teaching EFL. Education is now centered on the students, they have a more essential role where their needs, goals and likes are taken into consideration. There is a limitless sites and web pages of digital tools for helping adult students to learn English. The challenge is teaching English and motivating adult learners to try different applications and use these collaboration digital tools.

The learner each time becomes more responsible of their own learning and this webinar shows that there is practice for the four skills on line. The speaker in the video shows a metaphor that classifies the learners as the parts of a pen. I hope all of us can become sharp leaders with a good attitude towards learning. From the web, everybody can use tools or resources that improve the language skills. An interesting fact to show is that from the web the learner can adjust the level to be able to understand and succeed. The teachers who use technology in the class every time make students more interested in the learning process. These teachers “embrace change” as the author says, they share experiences and ask for help when needed. The presenter provided an endless list of web sites learners and teachers could use to improve the English skills by impacting students and creating meaningful scenarios to learn.

As teachers, we have to “try” and look for different forms to catch students’ attention and motivating them to be eager to participate and learn by themselves by practicing. One of the applications that called my attention was using a social network (Twitter) to improve professional development. We already have experienced using Facebook and writing blogs in this course and it is rewarding, because teachers can upload material and we can connect each other better, we can even solve problems of communication by having WhatsApp. We have coordinated assignments and posted supplementary materials to help each other.

When thinking about our students, the social networks have become essential tools for teaching and learning. In this case it is pivotal to optimize the potential of them to create spaces to learn and produce learning opportunities. When we understand our audience (students), we can take these tools (social networks) to engage learning. At the end, the educational goal is to help students interact and exchange information, this is what social networks were created for. By showing students skills to learn in collaboration with social networks and applications students will benefit from different educational experiences. This is a reason why there is a new curriculum in the educational setting in Costa Rica to promote learning though the use of Information Communication Technologies. This is not a trend, I believe it is a necessity now and for future generations.