WEEK 7
DATE 12/11/2012
Organization
The first session of this week was divided in two parts. During the
first part, the second group class did their presentation of the Microteaching:
Ancient Egypt. The topic was interesting and they did a good job looking for so
much resources, images and explanations for children. Moreover, they provide
the activities with examples and models.
On the other hand, some parts were repetitive and not really catchy for
us. I think that they focused the microteaching with too much theory parts.
Moreover, the coordination of the group wasn’t that good as the other day, and
the presentation was a little bit long.
The other part of the class the teacher organized the tasks we still
have to do, individually or as a group, and the deadlines we have. She reminded
us the days of expositions, recommending to everyone how to improve the
Personal Learning Environment.
For this reason, I’ve been completing my PLE with more useful links, and
adding my Google Drive documents we have as a task: Present yourself as a future
teacher and Poems, rhymes, songs and riddles. One of the links I added, for example, is the
BBC CBeebies* website. We worked on
it in class with the video Winnie the
Witch. I was looking around the website and I found it useful because I
found some resources like songs, stories and videos for children.
This is how my Personal Learning Environment looks now:
DATE 16/11/2012
Reading
comprehension
On Friday, the group who exposed the Microteachings talked about The Solar System in a very original way.
They used lots of resources and performance we can do as a teachers in class to
exemplify how the solar system works. Moreover, they prepared appropriate activities
for it.
The second part of the class was centered to talk about reading
comprehension. We said that to develop comprehension children need to develop
other aspects as background knowledge, discover how English language works,
have various proposes for readings or strategies for construing meaning.
It is important to know for my future as a teacher that comprehension is
an active process that involves all these strategies and behaviors, in order to
make meaning from the texts. We saw four readings styles –skimming, scanning,
extensive and intensive -.
After that we saw different examples of activities we can do with
children, always giving them a context. One of the important points I can use
in my future is that we can do lots of actions to maintain the motivation of
the kid to read.
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