WEEK 12           

                                                                                                         

DATE 21/11/2012        

                                                                                                                               

Last day

The last day they exposed the last microteaching related with the different coins around the world. I think it is an original and interesting topic to work with children in Primary level.

During the other part of the class we watched some videos about different programs to motivate parents to be implicated and collaborate more in their children tasks and school process. One of the most important points in the school is the participation of the families, which must follow the same way as the school.

Finally, we talked about the PLE presentations we have in January. This consist in a 10 minutes presentation where we have to explain the organization of our PLE and how useful was for us to create it. Moreover, we have to explain briefly some tasks we include and we can use our Blog entries to complement the presentation.

WEEK 11        

                                                                                                            

DATE 10/11/2012      

                                                                                                                                 

Last' Microteachings

This session we dedicated it to finish all the microteaching presentations. The three of them were for infant education: 5 years old.

The first one was my group’s microteaching focused in the painting of Van Gogh’s room. We finished the presentation very satisfied with the result and the activities development. In general, all the comments of our classmates were positive.

The second group presentation was around the Halloween topic. They used a real character of a witch to introduce the topic, which I think it’s really catchy for the kids. Moreover, they have used a storytelling and flashcard, very appropriate for these ages. Finally, one of the activities was more focused to work with the senses (touching) to determinate the characteristics of elements.

Finally, the last presentation was so interesting to work with 5 years old children because all the activities are thought to work with music. Discriminating sounds, for example the different sounds of the animals. Some others were related movement with sounds as well. They have used storytelling as well and proposed dynamic activities. Finally, one remarkable point is that they played song in live with a guitar which can be so original and different as the kids are used to.

DATE 14/11/2012   

                                                                                                                                    

Library day

We dedicate this whole class to expose the different books we analyzed with our groups. I have to say that I’m very proud of my group presentation because was consistent but at the same time clear. The result of the activity done in class was excellent as well.

Our book presentation:

About the other groups, I enjoyed with most of the presentations and I think some of the books can probably be useful in my future as a teacher. Even if we had a short time to expose, all the groups respected and we could present all the books correctly.

WEEK 10      

                                                                                                              

DATE 3/11/2012        

                                                                                                                               

Comet – Learning English through content and literature

We had the pleasure to have two speakers, Jane Howes and Peter Loveday, talking about aspects related with the education and teaching in English.

The first point was sharing our experimental learning. The activity consisted, in pairs, to analyze the positive and negative aspects of children textbooks, based on our experience. Unfortunately, most of these points were negative. Jane recommended us to present the exercises to children without opening the book. For example, preparing the images apart, writing a poem in the blackboard and to the exercise all together, before to open the book.

The second point was the communicative methodology. They gave us some advices and explained their experience, and we shared opinion. In the third point we talked about CLIL, where we saw two important concepts as:

TAVI – Text As Vehicle for Information

TALO – Text As Linguistic Object

After that, we saw and analyze different English activities for children. Some of the parts we did it working in pairs our groups, and then sharing with the rest of the class group.

I think it’s productive to have some real experiences of English teachers, which can show us the reality in class and give us advices and tools to teach this language. 

WEEK 9                   

                                                                                                 

DATE 26/11/2012            

                                                                                                                           

Preschool and Primary activities 2

We didn't have any microteaching presentation in this session. Because of that, we continued analysing different textbook activities, both for preschool and primary education. We had to take into account the concepts and skulls every activity develops, as well as the methodology.

DATE 30/11/2012    

Textbook activities

The first part of the class was about a microteaching presentation: Christmas around the world. As a task, we have to analyze it and post in on moodle as we did with the first microteaching presentation.

After the microteaching presentation, the teacher gave us different textbook activities which we analyzed and exposed, in pairs, our first impression. Every 10 min., more or less, we had to change the book with other classmates and analyze it too. At the end of the class, every pair has got a book and the task consists on work with one and analyzes the assets and drawbacks points on it.