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AFTER YOU WATCH, DO THIS TASK: At the end of this video, we asked you to call a colleague or a friend and reflect together about another significant moment from your recent teaching. This could be an activity or strategy that went better, worse, or simple differently than you expected. Don't forget to focus on the questions What?, So what?, and Now what?, and to be careful with the phrases we talked about!
AFTER YOU DO THE TASK, WRITE A COMMENT ⇩: What did you and your colleague talk about?
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We had similar ideas about how most girls love to talk about fashion, but not boys. So when we introduce a new topic about fashion, we focus also on technology and this way everyone has a positive participation because they all have their own ideas and collaborate in a natural way through conversation. When fashion is chosen we understand that it means everything that is updated.
ReplyDeleteWell we are talking about our last class in which the topic was not as interesting as others for example food when the topic is interesting for everybody the class works stupendous and students improve their lenguage skills accuracy
DeleteIn our class we are talking about topics confuse and oppinions or ideas for the next class improve better. In other hand, topics interesting for example ordinals nambers, members of the family. Students enjoy with these activities.
DeleteWe discussed about a Speaking task assigned to a group of students . First , students recieved imput about vocabulary and their uses , the directions were set and asked for completing the activity, so there were some details that students got confused about it , the lesson was running different from what my partner expected it , so she could notice that most of them were not able to follow the directions and started to talk each other in their L1,Finally, She realized and re-set rules to redo the task and produce L2 to satisfy the lesson goal.
DeleteEn nuestra clase a través de equipos de trabajo , llegamos a conclusiones ,que se van aplicar en la vida diaria de los estudiantes.
DeleteEstoy contenta con el trabajo realizado
DeleteRole play helped to develop speaking and motivate students to follow the script, now they like to do that activity once a week
ReplyDeleteMy partner said me that she was teaching about gerunds and infinitives and it was very difficult because the students need to know regular and irregular verbs but she did some fun activities for students learn such as stop hand, crosswords, grids and soup letters.
ReplyDeleteFinally, I said her that she took the best techniques to teach verbs.
A month ago when I worked with my students I espected students understand the listening related to food for confirming the categories but students didn´t identify the groups, so I told them maybe will need some times listen to the script and next time will
ReplyDeletetry to pay attention more. I´m sure you can do it very well.
I decided to teach adjective vocabulary to 3rd grade by comparing opposites and asking questions about animals. After doing a small speaking activity I asked for a volunteer to match adjectives on the board (ie. good-bad, happy-sad, etc). I was shocked when the whole class practically jumped out of their seats and wanted to volunteer. Everybody had learned all the adjectives (about 10 in total) and perfectly understood the activity. This experience helped me understand what a great tool comparing opposites and using pictures to describe can be. In the future I hope to use this strategy as a base in teaching beginner's level English because it can build on itself quite easily.
ReplyDeleteA los estudiantes de basica elemental les encanta cantar canciones y tambien colorear temas en el área de la lengua extranjera, también vamos cambiando con cuentos donde dramatizamos y forma parte del personaje.
ReplyDeleteEn básica superior utilizamos la tecnología observando vídeo musicales y que mejor en inglés lo traducimos y entendemos de que trata y sacamos un mensaje
When I worked with my students in classes. I espected students understand the listening related to food for confirming the categories but the students didn´t identify the groups,
ReplyDeleteso I told them maybe will need more time to listen the script. And in the next class will be better.
try to pay attention . I'm sure you can do it very well.
My colleage and I were talking about how was his first class with 8th, He introduced the topic with some cards about sports and repeat the words pronunciation very fast because he wanted the students attention in each moment, but one student stood up and went outside. Nevertheless, he continued with the class and did a dynamic with gestures.
ReplyDeleteMy collegue and me talking about the topics most relevant of english, also strategies and methods of learning to use in class.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I had the same opinion about teaching baccalaureate students in our public high school. They came to baccalaureate from "básica superior" with English emptiness. So:
Deletewhat: We expected to see them working with short dialogues or working in pairs, but they do not have strong development of oral speaking, neither an average level.
so what: maybe students need to be motivated. Maybe, they received only repetitive activities, being passive learners with teacher-centered approach.
now what: motivate students to participate with short words, little by litter, not focusing on quick progress but accurate and strong. Provide them with short readings, fairy tales or popular artists, real contexts to students
Mi amiga y yo hablamos como fue el inicio de la enseñanza del verbo tobe con su gramática y les ayudo mucho el vocabulario para formar las oraciones por si solos una linda experiencia
ReplyDeleteMy colleague told me that she was teaching a listening activity and she thought that every body had understood. So she continued the class but her surprise was when anybody answer some questions about the listening activity. Then she had to repeat the listening activity as many times as it was necessary. In the future for the next activity class she should be sure that all the students understand it.
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteWe discussed about group work inside English class. In our institute there are different majors and students don't have contact between them during the regular classes, but they are mixed in English. As a result, they always sit by groups (same majors), so as teachers we recommend them to make new friends from different majors. At the beggining that's almost impossible because they don't have enough social skills. Regularly, they are so shy or introvert. By using gamification and motivation they change their minds and share. At the end of the academic cycle they made new friends. That's why learning by playing is so important, because it challenges themselves.
My coworker Olga and I, again agree when saying journaling is a great technique to develop a better and better teaching role everyday. For instance we were talking about one of our last classes and we remember that it was about food and we wanted students to learn vocabulary and prepare a recipe but we couldn't accomplish the lesson plan because the time was not enough so with this reflection we could select an easier recipe or devide the class into groups to develop the instructions of the recipe, or even ask them to prepare the recipe at home and bring some picture for the next class as evideince and talk about it into groups.
ReplyDeleteMy coworkers and have good experiences working with students, he said that he use Duolingo and is very good to work with this program because is fun and easy to teach, hopefully one day i use too but at the moment i do not have all this items.
ReplyDeleteMy coworker and I have a similar experience, so we analize what happened in this way:
ReplyDeleteWhat: Write a short essay using connectors.
So what: Students don't have the same level of English, so advanced Students were happy with the activity while beginners were stressful and disappointed.
Now what: Divide the class in Groups to strenght the level of English of those Students to encorauge them to do it with some extra help.
A friend of mine has way more experience than me on online teaching, so I asked him for tips about this methodology. With his suggestions I started to work using the platform Zoom, for me it turned out to work much better that Skype for example, the interaction is different but the expectations are quite similar to a regular classroom. It is something new for me but it is a great option to teach in these times.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about some strategies and techniques to evaluate speaking activities, and I shared that in my classes I worked with rubrics which are explained to the class about how we use them in order to get a qualification or score according to their abilities and also we talked about some strategies we can use, for example: role plays, short individual presentations and dialogs.
ReplyDeleteWe dicussed with my coworker some strategy and methods we can use to get goald. The best techniques is making groups. It heps to interac themselves we can developed the 4 skills
ReplyDeleteOne activity that surprises me a lot was when I taught the pronunciation of past of the regular verbs. The activity consisted of raising flashcards with (/d/ /t/ /-ed/) to show how the regular verb needs to be pronounced depending on the rules that they known. For me, it was too simple that I thought my students will get bored, but their behavior surprises me a lot, they loved that kind of activity, all of them participated raising the flashcards and sharing the reason why the verb should be pronounced in that way. Their attitude made me forget the rest of the activities that I had planned for that class.
ReplyDeleteMi colega y yo hablamos sobre lo signifivativo que es utilizar cards para la enseñamza del vocabilario.
ReplyDeleteWe talk about the best strategies to apply when students do not show the same level on a specific topic. Also, how teamwork is a useful method to get the Ss participate with their points of view.
ReplyDeleteConvence con su compañero sobre la ultima clase impartida, y es lo complicado que se hace educar en un colegio rural, donde se pretende enseñar que los estudiante pronuncien correctamente, la estrategia principal a desarrollar la practica continua de diálogos
ReplyDeleteWe were talking about group work vs individual work.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
In this particular lesson I wanted them make a collaborative poster. So they work in groups. I expected them to be concentrated and work as fast as they work individually but don’t.
So what?
It took me 3 lesson - hours to complete this assignment with them while with other groups it took me two lesson- hours.
Now what?
I know that when they work together they are having a cooperative learning, so they will work in groups but not very often due to the time fact.
I taught leisure time to students.
DeleteWhat?
I taught students using a clear objective with methods, techniques and strategies according to the theme and I saw individual work without problems.
So what?
In one grade I had positive results on my teaching practice while with other grade didn’t work.
Now what?
Students worked in pair but they could not do activity they stayed taking about other topic.
My colleague thinks the role play helped to develop speaking and motivate students to follow the script, now they like to do that activity in different times in a week.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague told me that it is very important to use the flash cards to teach vocabulary in the class. This helps students remember the new topic words.
ReplyDeleteWE TALK ABOUT THE EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF STUDENTS PER CLASSROOM, THAT DOES NOT ALLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLASS WITH NORMALITY. BUT NOW WE ARE AGREE WITH THE USE OF NEW STRATEGIES LIKE: TEAMWORK AND EVALUATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME CLASS.
ReplyDeleteMy collegue and me talked about the problem related to the short time to develop our classes, sometime we felt our students need more time for practice.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I were talking about how to teach different class with different class she teach 8th and I teach 3rd we teach the same topic for example the Family she said that their students can pay attention for 20 minutes and she can explay thr cocabulary, I said that my students can´t get attention for 10 minutes but I can show them some funny flascards and make they repeat and teach vocabulary by songs.
ReplyDeletewe talk about ways to put in order to practice in this new school year. Interchange activities to develop in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteWe agree in some ideas. Students had problems in listening. We expected they understand some sentences but they identify just some words. Maybe the audio was so fast. In the next class we had to repeat three times and we can read instead.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and me have talked about the most importants topics and skills of english. Also some strategies and thecniques of learning to use in our class. We Interchange activities to develop in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteWith my friend we talked about the progress of learning of the students in the foreign language, she stated that it is difficult to teach them to speak, but applying strategies such as games, dialogues, dynamics, has improved learning. In my case, I told him that the use of educational material such as flash cards, puzzles, videos in English, I have made my students better understand the English language.
ReplyDeleteMy college and I talked about one class I had with my tenth grade students. I was reviewing irregular verbs pronunciation and meaning through a game where I used a ball and threw it to any student and they had to tell the class the correct pronunciation and meaning, things did not go as I espected because not all students had practiced at home. So now I have to be careful and look for other strategies so that my students can achieve my goal.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI think like a teacher is not a good way just to make a questions about our teaching skills. We have to ask ourselves whta really is going on with our students about their ideas of English subject.
In this school year I had a good class when teaching PASSIVE VOICE because before I decided to make my students to memorize Object pronouns and students were working with a Chart of Verbs. This make my class easy to understand, I share this with a colleague from other school. She got a great class too.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and me talked abuot a Speaking activity about TV and favorite movies , and she said, Ss were practicing in pairs for about forty minutes and when she thought everybody was ready to show to the class, only a few pairs di it.
ReplyDeletePlatforms help me as an English Teachers because when I use them with my students, they feel motivated. When teachers started to use ICT skills. The use of platforms let students to have a virtual interaction and at the same time they have to do significant activities base on real information in order to motivate them to learn English. Also, pupils are able to strengthening their knowledge through the use of platforms which help them increase their improve and increase the use of the English Language.
ReplyDeleteMaydi Hermosa here!
ReplyDeleteI chat with Fernanda again. She told me that once she invited to the students to play "la botella" ( you know, when people form a circle, a bottle is in the middle of it, a person spins the bottle and when the bottle's peak points a person this person has to answer a question or accomplish a challenge...) so, she wanted to do a funny and interesting activity for teeneagers but it went wrong...
What?,
She expected students were engaged with an activity that usually is played by them but in English and using grammar learnt, but it did not happen.
So what?,
She could realize that they were ashamed. Maybe they didn't want to talk about something personal with the entire class. Maybe it is not the same playing "la botella" with friends than with other classmates they did not trust. It is possible that they did not want to expose personal things in front to a teacher. Maybe they were unsecure of speaking English or they didn't know how to express something personal because their English level wasn't high.
Now what?
It is important not to make teeneagers feel exposed, at their age they are still unsecure of themselves
Maybe this game would be funny but without including information that may result private.
My colleague and me talked about a speaking activity about, free time activities and he said, Students don't have the same level of English and it cause that some students were happy and others disappointed.
ReplyDeleteNow what: for the next class he should be sure that all the students understand it using easy activities.
We were talking about short talks. Create a stack of topic cards for your students, so that each student will have their own card. Each student draws their card, and then you assign them a time limit—this limit may be one minute initially, or maybe three minutes when they have had practice. This is the amount of time that they’ll have to speak about their given topic.
ReplyDeleteNow give the students a good chunk of time to gather their thoughts. You may want to give them anywhere from 5 minutes to half an hour for this preparation stage. You can let them write down three to five sentences on a flashcard to remind them of the direction they’ll take in the course of their talk. It is an activity that she developed with her students and now I am going to develop in my classes.
Hi. 3 weeks ago. I was surprised with my third class students, becasuse I was teaching comparissons. I explained the theme, did some examples with drawings on the board and as a homework students had to bring 2 objects from their homes to make comparisons. They had fruits, toys, animals, so on...
ReplyDeleteSo what? In pairs they began to talk about comparative and superlative sentences taking turns to say: My car is bigger than yours. Yes, but my car is the newest.
Now what? Every one participate with their objects.
I called my friend Marcia an ENGLISH Teacher to talk about this experience. after I explainned everything what happened She smiled and said me. Congratulations it was nice.
my friend and I talked about the different ways to reach the students, on the subject of fruits and vegetables, that first you have to give them the vocabulary of each fruit and vegetable, then by using flash cards make the students separate in fruits and vegetables, and finally do a task with the fruits and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteI and my collegue were so sencere. We work in a school in a rural area so we say students do not study, do homework, pay atttention etc so we didn'´t use to prepare clases for them. But, when they asked to me a word in spanish to English just I did not know and I discover, that, my students really want to learn, they want to do the things in class because maybe outside they have other things to do. I want to change my mind and put all my effort for teaching in a better way.
ReplyDeleteKaren:
ReplyDeleteMaybe role play is a fun activity for them. and they did not know it yet
They may have been highly motivated by you previously.
Now what? Maybe the next step is a fairy tale.... :)
What?
ReplyDeleteMy friend decided to use realia, Ss in groups had to choose a recipe from a previous list and bring all the ready-made ingredients to prepare in class and describe using the vocabulary they learned during the lesson. But it was a disaster the class smelled like onions, things were watered, etc.
So what?
the instructions were not clear
the chosen recipes had difficult to handle ingredients
Now what?
She use some question to verify that the Ss understand the idea
She check the ingredients carefully before
The last class I had with my students was a month and which worked on the feelings and personalities of each one was an unforgettable experience that everyone talks about their personalities.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
ReplyDeleteStudents worked in groups of five people. They wrote twenty sentences using comparative adjectives. They did not finish the exercise in the time that I expected.
So What?
I noticed that maybe not all the members in the groups had a clear idea about how to write a simple sentence. Furthermore, they are not used to working in group.
Now What?
I could write or give more examples and I should try to identify students who need a better explanation. In addition, I should try more activities that involve cooperative learning.
I called to my friend Susy because she is an excellent teacher and sometimes both she and me share ideas about methodologies or strategies that can be applied in our classes. She had the next experience: For listening and speaking class, she decided what song the students had to prepare. Most of them, got bad grades because they did not like that song, therefore they did not practice it. She asked students what had happened, they told her they wanted to sing another song. She gave them another opportunity and they could do it better. She learned that sometimes we have to let students choose the way they want to work.
ReplyDeleteI always teach until the bell rings. One day, however, I was really getting frustrated by trying to figure out how to fix my speakers for my next class because after I taught them listening class my speakers failed a bit . So, one minute before the bell was to ring , I told my students they could sit quietly and chat with a neighbor. I went to my computer and, seconds later, our Principal walked into the room ....things happen colleagues and as a conclusion I think we do not need to worry If we live those kind of situation in a real class.
ReplyDeleteMy students love do activities of speaking because they create real situations and dialogues, after they practice and share with whole the class.
ReplyDeleteAt my school, teachers from the English area meet and share the methodological strategies of teaching English, for example to teach the verb tenses, it is important that students formulate their own sentences.
ReplyDeleteHemos hablado, y concluímos en que hacerse estas preguntas acerca de cada lección seguramente traen mejores resultados en la práctica docente.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning, my friend and I talked about how hard is to analyze the students results from a new perspective. Usually teachers believe that learners are the problem, we say they do not want, they do not work, maybe they are lazy, etc. However, we agree that it is imperative the teachers' self reflectiont since we are a kind of parents who lead and guide children in the growing. After this, we share some good and bad experiences in classes and we conclude that our motivation for teaching and mood during the practice can influence a lot in our classroom environment and students performance.
ReplyDeleteI've used dramatization as a tool to make my students speak more English in class. Small role plays work wonders! Of course you have to prepare vocabulary in advance and help students with basic request language, but this kind of activity always contextualizes the use of language and provides lasting language learning.
ReplyDeleteIt helps to develop their skills.
My colleague and I talked about the workshop where he was participating in a foundation.
ReplyDeleteHe said to me we must keep a good voice to do the activity. Furthermore we have to focus and do it more attractive with them to get the best learning. Also he said to me when I am in classroom I must focus in all students to get learning in them and the end, try to help in something that they can not do that. In conclusion we have to give motivation and play game is important with them to learn English.
My co-worker Auxiliadora have good experiences working with the students, she told me that she uses dialogue in her class hours since this technique is very good to work because it is fun and easy to teach, and it has helped her a lot to work. in the eighth year of basic education.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I were explaining the present perfect tense. It was difficult because our students have to know a lot of regular and irregular verbs
ReplyDeleteMy partner said she was doing reading activities to her students learn vocabulary, infer the general idea o get reading messages so, reading has more many positive unexpected results.
ReplyDeleteMy friend and colleague had explained about food vocabulary ,kitchen tools cooking verbs and sequence conectors and finally show an easy and simple recipe how to make a cup of tea and asked to her students recorder a video while they were preparing a recipe .She was really surprised because her students make their best. Students can be very creative .
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I talked about the workshop where we were participating in the University. It is very important that the subject shown to students be actual, new, fashion to motivate students give their opinion. As teachers we must manage an excellent tone of voice, and to know how to lead the class to get objectives. We have to give motivation in order all students understand the class and put it into practice.
ReplyDeleteMy coworked and me have some ideas about how students can learn and find more interesting class we notice that they enjoy sing some songs where they apply the vocabulary learnt..
ReplyDeleteI have ideas about how most guys love to play football, but not as many ladies. So when we introduce a new topic about world competition, we focus also on technology and this way everyone has a positive participation because they all have their own ideas and collaborate in a natural way through conversation. Now football is the world's leading competition
ReplyDeletewe have been using DIGPA to make a reflection through a specific moment, so it's recommended to describe a lot to don't have problems to think in the plan actios
ReplyDeleteHi everyone, I talked to my one of my friend her name is Janeth and we were talking about how we have to reflect students after a role play. She told me that with her students have prepared a short presentation, the goal was to develop speaking, but in the presentation students only acted and did not speak anything. She motivated students to practice their presentation again to fulfill the goal, then the next presentation was quite good. They were able to speak and narrate some scenes. She was happy because of students development.
ReplyDeleteAs conclusion, practice is better that refusing . Motivation is the essential part to get involved students in learning process.
My friend told me about his experience
ReplyDeleteWhat? He was teaching the countable and uncountable, but his students didn´t catch it very well?
So what? It was a bad experience, because he had planned the class in order subtends learn to use countable and uncountable in real situation.
Now what? So the next time he used real things such as food made of plastic or papers, and this time the things were much better.
We are interested in learning about techniques to work with teenagers, games for instance. It has been a useful tool for Planning the class. We go to apply it.
ReplyDeleteMy partner says that she had a bad experience teaching the Passive Voice because in order to make prayers it is necessary to put into practice all the times and the students had confusions about this topic that in itself is very complex to teach especially in our environment where they they care little about learning the foreign language.
ReplyDeleteMy collegue said me that was teaching about the Present Perfect and the Past Perfect and it was difficult because the students don ´t know the tenses of the verbs and He always choose the manner for that the students memorice throught the plays, crosswords.
ReplyDeleteMy partner says that the teachers will be preparing all the time because we can learn new tools for using in class and these could be funnier and the the students will be motivated in order to learn and so avoiding to have boring students.
ReplyDeleteMy partner and I realize that we do use that phrases when we want to complain. The good thing is that now we know how to do it better in a positive way.
ReplyDeleteWe had had the same problems when we started to teach a complex topic however we interchanged some tips like the use of estrategies ,topics and use of work groups in order to get our objectives.
ReplyDeleteWe were talking about writing an essay in groups. We have given enough time to do the task, but some groups didn't finish the task.
ReplyDeleteWhat?we hope that a lo groups finish the task.
So What? students unknown how to write basic sentences.
Now what? For the next time We could ecplain slowly and do more examples.
My friend and I talked about the different ways to reach the students, on the subject of imaginary situation and bad habits, that first you have to give them the vocabulary of each situation, then by using flash cards make the students, tell the class each case, and finally tell their classmates to ask them questions to see if they understand.
ReplyDeletewell in the last class the students learned the frequency adversaries and their daily routines without any problem
ReplyDeleteWe talked about the different games with flashcards, and the importance of then when teach new vocabulary to kids.
ReplyDeleteI tried practice vocabulay in groups so it was a compentence between them...but it wasnot what i spected....they made nose ...and discusss about one said to partner...it was a disater..
ReplyDeleteNo what...i will form a small groups an will let that they help to their classmates ..
We talked about a speaking activity she had planned for a specific lesson. She said she prepared in advance the necessary material and during class she provided clear instructions to students about what they had to do. However, when carrying out the activity it did not go as expected because sudents got confused with what vocabulary to use and how to ask questions and they started to speak in Spanish. So, when she noticed that problem, she explained again what to do and she provided some prompts for asking questions.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about a game activity that she preprared to teach future tense. It consists in that students chose a card with phrases. Then, they complete them using will / going to. She gave the instructions and explain the purpose of the activity. But students got confused about how complete the phrase and they used another tenses. She noticed that situation. Then, she gave an example about what words students can use for completing the activity.
ReplyDeleteA memory that I shared with a co-worker and we talked about it is when some students had to speak in English, they were given a certain time to learn the pronunciation and everything from memory, I told him that I was surprised to see how many students were They worked hard to learn everything in English, the pronunciation was not so good but the effort they put in to give their presentation is appreciated and they value the grade of the subject
ReplyDeleteI talked with my colleague about different strategy and methods we can use to get goal. The best techniques is work in groups, make comparative information in the group and share the information with the other groups.
ReplyDeleteI phoned to my friend Maria who is in Salinas. I told her about a class that i taught recently at my school what were my expectations, what happened during the class and what decision i took after that class. I remember in that class I taught regular and irregular verbs in the present perfect. The objective of the lesson was use Present perfect in affirmative and negative form. At the first time I introduced the verbs in the past perfect form. After that the structure of the sentences using present perfect tense. Next step was apply a game to my students used the regular and irregular verbs correct form in the present perfect tense. I was expecting they were successfull in that part but most of them failed using the correct structure and the correct form of the verbs. My colleague and I reflected on the performing and results that I got in that class. We both agreed that the next time I must make a deep reinforcement on the form of irregular verbs in the present perfect tense with ludic activities in that way they are going to remember them in a easiest form. And we also think THAT THE PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT; more time our pupils use the English language they will be successful on it.
ReplyDeleteI remenber my last class. It was through a game I think games can be fun. Games are also a great way to keep lessons interesting. If your students need to remember their spelling words, conduct a spelling bee—a contest in which participants are eliminated when they misspell a word. Or if the students need to practice numbers, have a math bee, which is similar to a spelling bee, but with numbers problems or facts instead of spelling words. Games make learning fun, and games in class are good way to learn english.
ReplyDeleteMy partner says that English language learners should not be learning the fundamentals of English in isolation; they should be applying their developing language skills to rich academic content in all subjects.
ReplyDeleteI called to my colleague, because she is an excellent teacher and sometimes both she and me share ideas about methodologies or strategies that can be applied in our classes. I had the next experience: For listening I decided what song the students had to prepare. Most of them, got bad grades because they did not like that song, therefore they did not practice it. He asked students what had happened, they told me they wanted to sing another song. I gave them another opportunity and they could do it better. i learned that sometimes we have to let students choose the way they want to work.
ReplyDeleteWe discuss about one class in which I planned a game but my students did not participate as motivated as I thought! So we notice I need to consider students age and likes so next I will be more careful when choosing activities
ReplyDeleteI could not talk to any colleague these days. That's why I am going to share some ideas about a reflexion I had with one of my colleagues some months ago. We have discussed about difficulties in grouping students in speaking activities. If we pair a slow and fast student, the fast one controls de conversation. If we pair two slow students and two fast students, the fast ones finish the activity first and start making noise. If we ask students to pair themselves, they do not do the activity responsibly. We agreed that we still need to learn about it.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about a writing class and we agree that students like to do as homework because they can use a translator. So we consider that we have to use other strategies to work with writing.
ReplyDeleteLaura Tapia. I called my friend and remembered about a speaking class. She thinks is in teresting using somo strategies but it is difficult students speak. I shared my experience with BGU the class was about a legend students didnt want to speak so that for the next class I decided to use a fancy dress and made different gestures,they laughed but they began to speak the class was funny.
ReplyDeleteWell my partner and I were talking about some students live far away to the city and is difficult for them to connect to the internet because they do not signal and their knowledges will recede.
ReplyDeleteMy partner and me was takink about the pronounciation of Irregular verbs in Simple Past and Past Participle , bur she said me she didsome fun activities for studnts learn as Crosswork, soup of letters, stop hand, etc.
ReplyDeleteFinally I said her she took the best options to teach verbs in English.
We talk that you can use the programs like Zoom to interact since you can practice English skills
ReplyDeleteWe spoke about the strategies for the students speak in english. some students don`t like speak in public, and it is very difficult to do this practice in class, becasuse they memorice the topic and when they are in class, usually, they forgot it..
ReplyDeleteWe talked about the methodology and strategies we use regularly and that we have to changes some of them.
ReplyDeleteWe spoke about a difficult topic that have in our school and the strategies applied to our students.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
The use of present perfect.
So what?
Not all students remember or learn the past participle of regular and irregular verbs ,it is an essential part to form the present perfect.
Now what?
Remember and practice the past participle of regular and irregular verbs through pictures and slides.
We talked about strategies that do not allow us to teach perfectly, but I remember an activity that work well when I started with a good warm up that allowed them to wwake up and I can continue teaching the passive voice grammar, but I asked them to bring posters of famous inventor to show ther classmates who created each invention, and it was good because everybody paid attention to the presentations.
ReplyDeleteTalking with my friend, we conclude that we sometimes plan a class according to our abilities but we don't consider the different level that we can have in the same classroom.
ReplyDeleteFor instance:
What? I suppose the students to understand the steps to make an excellent project about customs of each country using different information and slides. It was told that they musn't copy the information and each project had to be authentic.
So what? Students have similar projects and information, they only changed the name of the country and the information was almost exactly. It became a boring and annoying time class.
Now what? First, We explained the rules and steps before developing the projects and applied rubrics to evaluate them appropriately. To make a better and motivational environment they made work groups and they had to use technology for example to record their works using the cellphone applying the content or structure learned in class.. Then, the videos were showed in the english lab and finally, they got a feedback for each work. It had a much better result.
My partner said that role play helped to develop speaking and she was doing reading activities to her children learn vocabulary with daily routines. She said that is a good strategies for class.
ReplyDeleteHi... I was talking with my friend Paty.... our conversation was about our last class.... she told me that she taught adjetives... she used a beautiful reading. First the students underline the words they didn't understand and she give them the meaning.
ReplyDeleteThen the students read line by line and check pronunciation.
Finally she explain the reading and compare it with their real life. It is a good strategy.
Dear instructor,
ReplyDeleteWe talked with my classmate about an experience that I recently had. I was teaching will VS going to and students seemed to catch the information very quickly; however, when we were finishing the class with a group work activity, students failed at all. In fact, I realized that the objective of the class was not achieved. I told her that the final activity was about ordering some sentences that used will and going to in the less time possible; therefore, she told me that the restriction of time and work under preasure could affect students and the results. I believe that too, by reason of their development through all the class and it was strange that at thee failed it just at the end. It makes me understand that activities must be chosen through a thorough selective process, if not the results will not be reliable.
Best regards,
Saula A. Ordóñez.
My colleague and I told that we have more problems with the activity of listening because the students don't understand are little young that understand.
ReplyDeleteBut when the class is about fashion most the girls love to talk about it, and when the class is about the sport the boys like to talk about it.
We were talking about modal verb to describe abilities and Students describe and compare what they can do or they can't do. After that, they discuss in pairs each one of the activities according to the ability they have. IT was pleaceful.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I agreed to think that is very useful show students things that they are interested in. For example songs, and we can use a particular song to reinforce listening and pronunciation skills, introducing new vocabulary. This is significant for them.
ReplyDeleteWe think the best techniques is work in group.It help to interact also like them
ReplyDeleteWe were talking about how technology helps us to keep our students motivated. For instance. These times my colleague and I were using zoom to interact with our students. In my case I taught them the passive voice by using slides and asking my students about some situations that happened around the world. My students participated all the time and I achived my goals. It was a new activity that I want to implement in my future classes.
ReplyDeleteI think the best way the students get the new knowledge is an active class, by using their previous knowledge, so they reinforce it and get the new knowledge activily
ReplyDeleteBoth of we think that a journal is a good idea for working as a pedagogical strategy,however we discuss about an experience that i had when i was in a class. So, I had said to all students and according to the planning. They were carried to the audiovisual classroom. Students were very worried about the new class but when i started the class I played a music and students were extremely happy. I expected students upset but not they were very happy. My colleague and me reflect us that dinamic and significant activities make more easy and fun the class.
ReplyDeleteI spoke with an English teacher from another institution and she said that elementary school students like to paint the images and at the same time they are pronouncing the colors, the only problem is when working in an institution in the rural sector and it is 3 hours a week. Which we agree, my way of teaching English to students is to download videos and play in class hours after finishing my explanation, students are motivated to learn English.
ReplyDeleteMy colleage and I were talking about some topics but we focused specially in the strategies and techniques that we use with our students for teaching in this case present perfect.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened?
They don't remember the past participle of some verbs.
So what ?
Students couldn't do the activities and some of them need help for remembering them.
Now what?
Recognize that some students need more time for memorizing the third column of the verbs both regular and irregulars.
Work in more exercises using both Groups of verbs.
Practice in pairs using flashcards
My colleage and I were talking about different opinions for example I say that songs can improve their listening and speaking but he said that the best activity is roleplay and games.
ReplyDeleteDear all,
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I were talking about students’ performance when they have to work in pairs. I told her that in some of the cases, just one-member works, but the other one does not participate; in fact, the objective of the task is not accomplished. Maybe, some students did not understand the class and this is the reason that do not allow them to work properly. Thereupon, when I develop a pair work or group work, I monitor the class to identify those students who are not taking part on the task and I talk with them to identify the problem to solve it and have them work. My friend also suggested to avoid developing group work, but I do not think this is the best decision.
- Miryam V. Ordóñez
ReplyDeleteA year ago, she told me that she wanted to invite my students to exchange knowledge with her students and talk about daily routines, and I accepted it.
What?,
She expected the students to participate in the activity she prepared with them, so my students started asking about them, but did not want to participate.
And that?,
I could tell that they were embarrassed because they did not want to discuss their daily routines with my students. Maybe they weren't sure how to speak English or didn't know how to express themselves.
Now what?
It is important the students interacted with other courses more frequently.
We think the best techniques is work in groups. It help to interact in class
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and me talked about the last class that we taught, the activity was filling the gaps , surprisingly almost all students did it in seconds after ,we had realized that they copied it. Maybe they did it because they did not undertand.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about a special class where my students didn't get involved because they were sophocated in that hot afternoon. I did my best with the planned activities, but I couldn't fight with the 36ºC inside. Since there I made the decision to leave the classroom to a cooler place. Everything was better from that day.
ReplyDeleteI talked with one of my colleages about the strategies she usually use to teach writing. She told me about a personal experience she had recently:
ReplyDeleteWhat?
She was teaching how to write a paragraph. While she taught the students how to write a paragrapph, she noticed that students did not understand what supporting sentences were. (She could start the class by using a sandwich to explain what a paragraph looks like)
So what?
Then, she asked them to read a given paragraph in their modules. She asked students to undeline the topic sentences and the supporting sentences to clarify the concepts. Student wrote their paragraphs with some errors in the end.
Now what? (Students could create a mind first with the teacher's help)
We agree that for future lessons we could bring some easy paragraphs (modelling) for students to underline its parts.
Students could also exchange their paragraphs to pair correction.
I talked to my friend and told her about taking notes and reflecting on classes. She thought that it was a different perspective to planning and staying in touch with what is going on in the class.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about a time that she had to work with students that were very unruly when she was being a substitute for the week. She had some really good ideas.
What
The students seemed to be challenging her authority and not completing work when asked to do so.
So what
Maybe this happened because she wasn't being hard enough on them.
Maybe because she wasn't informed about how to work with that specific class.
Now what
Maybe next time she could express her expectations to the students at the beginning of the class and remind them of her standards when they begin to test her authority.
Maybe she could talk to the homeroom teacher before she teaches the class to have an idea about the students that she's going to be working with and how she might want to handle different situations.
My friend told me about how this worked well in one of her classes when they had a listening activity. She explained to the students that she was expecting them to be quite and listen to the story. And that their mission was to answer questions about the audio on their worksheets. She explained that if they weren't silent or were not paying attention, she would stop the audio and play it from the beginning. She had some students that tested her, so she stopped audio and repeated it until they were able to get through the whole story without any distractions.
The method of being clear with with her students really did help her to get through that difficult week of substituting.
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ReplyDeleteAlways, I consider if you enjoy the activity you will put more enthusiasm in Learning
ReplyDeleteI prefer working using interactive way, figuring out by ourselves the English importante. I wok with my students using games presenting real situations because they can learn enjoyable. It permits to feel confortable with the use of English. EE ENGLISH ENVIRONMENT
It it is necessary talking before with our coleague because we can descover and develop some technics, methodologies to make the class more motivated , cheerful and interesting and what reflect on your teaching, so what, they try of being concious with their effort when they practice a foreing language, Now what? we are recognized our blemishes in front of the class.
ReplyDeleteWhen I teach grammar I use memes for getting them envolve in context and at the same time they have fun, so I always try to look for carefully memes so they can understand the topic better. I always use some topics according their age. So they cannot feel uncomfortable with the topic and they can express opinions
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I have similar experience due we both work with teenagers, so we analize our last class and what happened: Write a paragraph about traveling the world (transport, activities, places)
ReplyDeleteWe agree in each classroom there are some Ss don't have the same English level and other Ss aren't confident, so while a group feels comfortable another one feels disappointed.
well, it isn't the first time we are talking with a colleague about teaching English, but always we agree that students love to know about movies and music abviously according to the students ´´ age , and also they are very good in the use of social networks.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I talked about why our students have problems with comunication skill, I mean, the speaking. I try several techniques to made them talk and memorize ideas to produce the languaje, but they where to worry to make a fool in class. So, I was thinking maybe the students do not understand my activities, I speak to fast or I demand very short time to finish the activity. Now it is time to change my strategeties in focus to demostrade that they can speak the languaje even if they do not sounds good.
ReplyDeleteSo, I am goint to bring videos and audios from people of different countries who are taking in english to check their accent when they spoke. I want my students fell comfortable and do not be a shame when they produce the languaje.
As area colleagues we are always concerned with teaching but we have not asked ourselves these reflective questions. It is very interesting and to see failures that can be fixed. I will try with all my colleagues.
ReplyDeleteGood morning everybody,
ReplyDeleteConsidering the question What did you and your colleague talk about?
Well, I called to my friend and I told my last experience in my high school, likewise she told me her experience while was working with little children.
I told her about my class with third senior high school students, the topic was phrasal verbs, as you know that topic is complicated because of the great quantity of particles and prepositions. I wanted the class to be interactive; therefore, I cut small pieces of pasteboard and I wrote each letter to form a phrasal verb. The next day, the activity was revise the phrasal on the board and then in two big groups to form the phrasal verbs with the small pieces of pasteboard, the group that finish soon will be the winner. This activity helped me so much in the topic being the class more interactive where the students enjoyed each part of it. On the other hand, my friend told about her experience with the topic wild animals with little children. She said me that she had prepared materials to develop the class such as poster about wild animals, flash card, realia. She had showed this material to the children which caught their attention immediately. The students practiced the pronunciation, listening and speaking skills. She felt very happy because students had understood the class and they had enjoyed it.
As a reflection I can argue that the teachers should use material to catch the students ‘attention with the objective that it being different and not bored.
My colleague and I were talking about how was our first class with 1st baccalaureate, with the Present Perfect, I told her to introduced the topic remembered the short list of verbs in past participle, after that they had to fill this list in past participle. At the beginning they confuse and write it in past tense, later to reinforce we all repeat it orally and finally they were able to complete it, they did it better.
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ReplyDeleteIn high school we use technology to watch music videos, conversations and the students like to dramatize and be part of the character,
we do it in English we translate it and we understand what it is about then we get a message
I chat with a Marjorie. she told me that she asked students to attend a virtual class through a videoconference with Zoom to have a debate about the coronavirus in Ecuador.She thought it will be very interesting and attrack students attention during the taks but it didn't work as she waited.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
She expected students get involved in the activity for almost half an hour but it didn't happen.
So what?
She forgot to share the question through a screenshot and all of them started to talk about different topics instead of what she had planned. She realized that she needed to give clear guidelines and asked them if they could read the question.
So what?
It is important to practice with a colleage or a friend before using a new tech tool in order to not have mistakes and become sucessful during lesson. I beleve that through errors humans learn everyday and set goals to improve.
I talked with my colleague Naty. She is a good English Teacher. She has a lot of experience with children and teens. She told me the best way to teach english is creating communictive activities where students can apply the grammar and vocabulary learnt in class. Another strategy for students is learning english through games, songs and videos.
ReplyDeleteA month ago a teach Future Tense and the planned activities did not go as I expected.
what??
I expected that all my students got involved in the activity but it was no possible.
So what?? I did not give clear instructions. I should teach first vocabulary or some phrases to use to talk about future plans. I focused just in grammar tense.
Now what?? It is important to plan the lesson and give clear instructions at the beginning.
We were talking about listening activity, once I used a song to practice listening but it din't work; for that reason my friend told me for the next time it is a good use an interesting song for them then practice; moreover I told him that my students didn't complete in the blanks with correct verbs and my friend said that listening activity could have aplied in different way; for instance; first repeat all song, next organize the lyrics and finally complete in the blanks.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that reflectioning really works if we do it repeatedly!
ReplyDeleteI talk with my friend and both are agree tith the reflection and talk of an experience when she teaach the verb to be in octavo and she say tha use an strategic with pictures, magazines and video with songs this material getting good results in this students
ReplyDeleteHable con mi colega es necesario innovar estrategias que motive al estudiante, a desarrollar habilidades para mejorar su aprendizaje en el Ingles.
ReplyDeleteWhat: I used to take oral lessons in alphabetical order.
ReplyDeleteSo What: The rest of Students do not pay attention or respect to the person who used to be evaluated, because their were concentrated studying for their oral lesson turn.
Now What: Now I select in a ramdomly way the Ss who has to give the oral lesson and the rest are more concentrated.
Reflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do it, and thinking about if it works.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about Why it is important?
Teacher diary
Peer observation
Recording lessons
Student feedback
What to do next
Think
Talk
Read
Ask
Conclusion
What did you and your colleague talk about?
ReplyDeleteWe talked about a specific time in my class where my students complete a task successfully. I started with an informal conversation with my students asking questions indistinctly like: What´s your name? What´s your nickname? Where are you from?. Students got interested in what I was asking. Then, I gave them a matching activity about joining the information question with the correct answer and they did it successfully. My colleagues says that because of the previous activity the students were able to complete, also because I used information from the real life, in this case my students´ life. Moreover, because I modeled the answered before they gave me a response. Then, this curiosity made them pay attention to what I said that when they had to do the matching activity, they just remembered what they heard.
We talked about of a topic in common the family
ReplyDeleteThe students recognize the vocabulary related to family and can describe them.
Make a short dialogue. It was very interesting,
We reflected about the value of the family and can to do actividades out clasroom with the best strategy or methods that will be creatives and the students develop all the skills.
Maybe at the moment talk about the experiences to work in group with the students ,sometimes it's complicated ,maybe for the numbers of guys it's difficult to performance a good listening or others activities ,but we continue trying to look for new strategies for a good role.
ReplyDeleteOk!, we know about the circumstances were getting on (COVID-19), so it is a little difficult to manage, we are using technology to teach as much as we can to our students. WHAT we did is to set an online worksheet and it didnt went as we expected because students prefered to share their answers. SO WHAT we got was a lot of 10´s in the register. NOW WHAT we want is to plan virtual classes where we can share a natural conversation with them, so there is where they cant share their answers because in that point are them or them for answering the oral evaluation that the teacher would do.
ReplyDeleteI taught to my students the future WILL vs Going to.
ReplyDeleteWhat: They learnt quikly the grammar structure and howw to use it at the moment of the speaking .
So what: I noticed they got it very fast because they have learnt how to use the Tobe verb previously.
Now what: I realized that we have to teach students core of the grammar with out many useless words or many rules because many rules or empty words use to confuse them.
My friend and me were talking about the environment this theme was the last class and said that the students have difficult and the pronunciation and tobe bored, by this reason we try will say them in the other class to realize better the activity
ReplyDeleteI was talking with my friend about some strategies to teach vocabulary an my own experience.The best way to teach vocabukary was throug the use of crossword puzzles, the Ss improve and increase their vocabulary at the same time you can maitain the discipline in the class , it is fun and iteresting for them.
ReplyDeleteShe told me that this way of teaching is very interasting and that she is going to put in practice
When the tópics is interesting the students fell enthusiastic for learn, the introduce a new tópicos with games a small warm-up
ReplyDeleteMy friend and me had similar ideas, we talked about how they like competence games! So we could realiza that we focus on activities related with listening and speaking, sometimes we show them flashcards, and demand them to choral repetion the vocabulary, it is a little hard for students and for us, however when they play, they enjoy, so that they acquire knowledge uncounsciously!!
ReplyDeleteI talked to my friend about taking notes and reflecting on classes. She thought that it is a different perspective into watch about planning and stay awake in what works better in the class.
ReplyDeleteI share my experience about teaching Pre-k students ten years ago. Learning vocabulary adjectives. they needed to learn sweet, sour.
What
The class was better than I expected because I use realia. I use a jar of honey and some lemon juice to make them taste with a stick for everyone.
So what
Maybe this happened because children were tasting the flavor and repeating phrases like " It's sour, or its sweet" Then they also were listening and using the phrase "How is it?" when they ask to a classmate about any of those flavors.
Now what
I were very motivated to use realia almost all the time and made them use the language and listening students to speak English made feel happy.
I used to explained the rules of the class to them sitting on the floor and all of them were paying attention, explaining what do I expect from them in a very friendly and lovely way helps me to succeed with my classes.
We were talking about the latest classes through the app zoom and we thought about the advantages and disadvantages we have using this app. We reflected on the latest experiences teaching them. What happened?
ReplyDeleteThe students after the 20 first minutes of the zoom meeting become a little bit tired.
So what?
We thought that they become bored because they can just listen to us and they do not have the opportunity to participate.
Now what?
We decided to share screen and use prezzi prepositions to explain the grammar and vocabulary, also we share some videos too.
My colleague Luis and I discussed what was one of the class experiences that we found difficult to carry out.
ReplyDeleteSo, one of them was to teach the correct pronunciation of the regular verbs in the past tense, since they have three different ways of pronouncing -ed at the end of each verb.
What?
I expected students to recognize the three different final pronunciations of regular verbs -ed like /t/, /d/ or /it/ after the listening activity and at the end of each verb pronunciation I emphasized how they had to make the correct possition of their tongues in order to recognize and pronounce the regular verb in past tense.
So What?
Perhaps the students found this class very difficult because it is very complex to make a correct articulation of the mouth and position of the tongue in order to produce the sound.
Now what?
It is important that in each English class we need to teach to students the correct pronunciation of words through techniques such as Drilling technique, minimal pairs, record and replay etc. since it will help them to communicate in a better way.
With my partner we talked about how to get students to participate more in class to develop the topic about a tourist place. We agreed that for them is more attractive to deal current issues and contextualized to their daily life, for example: the best tourist place in my city. This makes a class dynamic and interactive class.
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I were teaching gerunds and infinitives to students of 3rd.of baccalaurete, they tried to do their best and some of them had problems with the rules, she used worksheets to be filled in pairs and then they share in small groups. Then the students chose one representative for group to expose the significant examples for them.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a good way to help all students to improve their skills because the students who knows a little bit more help the students who have difficulties and for the next class they reflecte about mistakes and start to develop their skills.
My collegue and me were talking about how was our recent teaching with students from 10th grade, teaching simple past with irregular verbs, making mini flash cards as a strategy to help to our students to build their own sentences, but we can see when students work in short groups we get better results.
ReplyDeleteWell, I had a long conversation with my collegue. It was so useful to talk about our experiences. She told me their feelings about her good and bad moments in all her life. We shared a lot, so now we can be better people and teachers by journaling the simple and strange experiences.
ReplyDeleteFirst I should reflect before starting the class, I should think about the best strategy to have good results during the class.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about an activity that went better than we expected. First, we provide a brief description of what happened on that significant moment. Second, we give some possible reasons of why it went better than we expected. Finally, we agree on some action plans to continue motivating students to get a significant learning.
ReplyDeleteLuis Parrales.
ReplyDeleteTalking about an opening topic could be an easy way to start the class but it isn't because most of the the time our students are boring with the same corny activity that teacher used to.
So what we should do.
The answer is really easy.
Teachers may start their class
with an amazing motivitation that is what the students want to.
They like to listen to horror stories or sing songs etc.
That is an appropriated way to get student's attention.
We talk about reading exercises. We agree that is indispensable that students understand the New voca and that reading arent too long because IT makes them fell boring and give them extra support because this kind of exercises are harder for them. We dont have good experiences teaching reading,so we have to work hard for next time.
ReplyDeleteMy coworker and I sent a work the last week by a Moodle platform because we start to work in this method due to the covid-19 pandemic. In this platform, we sent great activities where students felt relaxing and confident to work. First, we sent an amazing motivation and gave them the correct instructions where students understand and improve their knowledge. We consider that the students had the responsibility to review or complete the activities then we felt comfortable because the students applied the skills in a better way and finally we were surprised, we noticed that students improved their skills and learn better with technology didactic material. In the future, we will apply this material more than other kind of material.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
ReplyDeleteWorking with newspaper or magazine clippings and applying making sentences with pictograms, we all work.
So what?
It was excellent because 98 percent of students captured work and two percent then learning was significant. Because then they got together and started speaking English and practicing the sentences they created.
Now what?
Most of the students participated with the material and enjoyed learning.
Finally, I called my colleague Jorge, an English teacher, and he shared this experience and he told me that his strategy to attract interest in the students is good. congratulated and thanked me.
What .. my collegue and me talked about reading activities in class.
ReplyDeleteSo what .. in Institution, we have been working extensive reading but the results were not good enough ,during the call we share that the reading activity must be changed for instance Lets try with predict activities , during activities ,post reading activities.
She was consious about we have to change to get good results .
Now What .. we are going to apply this techique as soon as posible with the next readings .
We discussed the techniques and strategies that can be used to make the class more dynamic. So that students lose the fear of speaking.
ReplyDeleteWe wtalking about the importance of giving clear onstructions for example in an activity, about the conditionals, Ss try to give examples from their own with zero conditional withoth taking account the other ones, this topic was given on line. By the wat I wanted my Ss write two examples with combined conditionals. 2. Maybe they write only in zero 'conditional because there werent examples as patterns. 3.In advance I should give a short dialogue with combined conditionals and begin paraphrasing. And then create another dialogue.
ReplyDelete3 months I was teaching in a rural school, we were going to practice family members so I told them to bring some photos, it would be an easy activity, I expected a sucessfull output, but some children did not have a familiar album , some were brothers and had to share the same photo... so I took some old books to look at pictures and told them to imagine they are their relatives.
ReplyDeleteNext time, take in mind real situation of students, think about your resources
We talked about the new piramid shown during the videos and how we are trying ti incorporate them in our classes
ReplyDeleteI talked with a colleague Gaby, we are agree with the startegies and techniques that can use in a class.
ReplyDeleteWhat? The Simple Present tense with the verbs Love, Like and Prefer, the vocabulary was important, with videos about Routines and free time activities.
So what?The students found difficult in the speaking, because they don't use correctly the sentences with these verbs.
Now what? The best way in this class the audio specially with the words more difficult to pronounce.
My partner told me about a project with different topics
ReplyDeleteWhat? almost students did good job but the others didn't do ¨
So what? Could be the others students didn't do because had difficult topics
Now what? the next project will be at least fews topics.
I have good experiences working with students, he said that he use Duolingo and Kahoo and is very good to work with this program because is fun and easy to teach, they enjoy when the teacher use programs in that they can practice and laugh
ReplyDeleteMy partner and me talked about the topics most difficult in teaching English, so we were agree that listening and speaking were so hard due to the lack of materials and the students attitude to face activities that make them to participate, then we were thinking in strategies and methods of learning to use in class to make students more motivated to participate and how to get the suitable materials to teach.
ReplyDeleteMy last class was about present perfect tense
ReplyDeleteWhat: The students did not do all the activities given. I supposed that it will be a piece of cake. So, what: Maybe the students did that because they did not know all the verbs. Now what, I will start revising verbs first and emphasizing into the third column.
We reflect with my partner about this new strategy, reflection, it is very important because it helps us see where we can improve, so that our English classes are more meaningful.
ReplyDeleteWe reflected on the speaking activities , the students do not play the role as we want they just repeat the phrases or words , and the task was to make a similar dialogue but using their situation and they dont want to create a new one. The shows lack of motivation because they believe that english is not important that all.We share some methods and activities to change this view but they dont want to do some different those courses are from the same school. Teachers work on differents activities to improve their speaking skills but a few students improved the mayority dont care about it.
ReplyDeleteMy partner said me that speaking is creative ,dynamic process . It occurs more effectively when the students are involved rather than possively receiving information .
ReplyDeleteI agree First, we learn to speak before others skills in our language
In our class we are talking about topics depends the planning, share ideas for the next class improve better. In other hand, topics interesting and the students enjoy with these activities and they see the activities funny
ReplyDeleteI talked with my peer Marco and we were talking about vocabulary lessons and he told me that sometimes it is difficult for him teaching vocabulary because his students immediately start looking for the meaning in their dictionaries in order to translate and I recommended him that he has to explain his students that the most important is try to understand from our basic notions, knowledge, experience, relating the words with something that could be right or wrong and then we can continue with the explanation of the words by looking for the definitions in English, looking the flashcards and other activities that can help the students to understand the meaning of those new words. We discussed about how important is to explore our student`s prior knowledge and we decided to continue sharing our experiences by reflecting all about our lessons positives and negatives things in order to improve our teaching.
ReplyDeleteTalking with my colleage, we made especial emphasis in the importance of using audio and video resources especially with children. Commonly with teenagers, we don't use a lot of images, but teaching children we understand that in order to get significant knowledge, it is really important to use visual material as well as the use of games. In a special occasion, the panning didn't result as I expected; at the beginning it was so frustrating for me, hence I had to improvise, and it was so better!
ReplyDeleteDear all,
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned before, I have a friend with whom we share our professional work. I just contacted her again to tell her about this activity, too. She is very interested in all the new ideas being shared in this course. We plan to carry on them with different themes and with different groups to verify the results.
Kind regards,
Liliana del Cisne Ordóñez Avila
I have talked to my Friend Gustavo Almeida. We were reflecting on a class about present perfect. He told me that the best thing about that class was when the students did the exercises, that he had already planned. But something that he couldn't understand at the beginning was that at the end, he asked students to speak about their recent experiences, and the students couldn't do the exercise very well. He told me that it was maybe because the students don't know verbs in the past perfect way, it was difficult to do the last activity. Now and for next class he will give them first a review of verbs in the three ways before teaching that class.
ReplyDeleteMy friend told me, he practiced about the environment in a forest after getting a permission of the principal head in a high school. It was a good experience was your words because students could touch, look and after speak about this.
ReplyDeleteI talked with my friend Mayra. We were talking about a topic a little difficult to teach in class.... is the Conditional If. We taugh but the students didn't learn and we dicide to change the strategy for teach it, we tried with real situation and we were happy when we saw the students could do the exercises.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I talked about the pronunciation of regular verbs in past since we have noticed that students cannot pronounce the regular verbs in past correctly. While we talked, we concluded that one of the causes could be that the students did not receive any kind of information about it or simply students did not feel motivated to practice it. I told my colleague when I teach this topic apart to identify the past tense of the verbs, we practice the pronunciation. He said that it is worth because English is not only spelling or writing, English includes speaking and pronunciation is relevant for it.
ReplyDeleteI think that this part is important because for example when I taught about music there were students like actual other salsa, another electronic but it was interesting because they could express their likes and dislikes.
ReplyDeleteI did it, learning is a collective practice.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about how important it is to carry out proper planning for the development of the class.
ReplyDeleteAlso that it seems to him the method of application of several companions in the classroom.
My colleague thinks one of her lessons about the Simple Present did not work out the way she planned it. Students seemed not to remember any of the rules about third person
ReplyDeleteSo what? Ss did not kn0w what third person meant. WHen T changes He for Paul, students got lost and did not apllied the rule
Now what? Teacher plans to stop using Grammar Words and model third rule with real examples (by taking real names from the class)
Talk to my partner about discipline and communication between student and teacher inside and outside the classroom, concluding that communication is one of the aspects that has the greatest influence on classroom dynamics because it allows participants to work in In a harmonious way, so that the teacher can develop as a professional, as well as for the students to carry out the actions and natural activities proper to their age.
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I talked about how convenient it is to reflect on the activities we do in class. We focused on a day when a group of foreign students visited our school, and we were surprised because at the beginning all my students were very shy and embarrassed. They couldn't pronounce any sentences in English. All the time students said, “I can't,” “they didn't understand me,” “I fear of making mistakes.” However, my friend and I created an example of dialogue mixing Spanish and English with the native speakers. As a result, our students were confident about their knowledge and started to talk to them. At the end, we assessed the activity and we realized it is very important to work on their self – esteem no matter the situation. We also agree that it is very useful to change the type of phrases like “ they cannot or do not want” and reflect on the next time “they will do better.”
ReplyDeleteIn our class through work teams,and we end with conclusions, wich wil lbe applied in daily life of each student.
ReplyDeleteWe were talking about an activity we tried to use with our new students. That activity didnt work they way I tought, a spoken activity. I was expecting students will speak among them practicing a dialogue. May be they didnt want to do it beacuse they didnt use to practice oral activities. It was a challenge to train them to practice oral activities, after that day things were better, they started to speak and feel comfortable.
ReplyDeleteWell, I just shared a classroom experience with John about a role play activity done in one of my classes . It was the class hour that day, and I noticed they looked so tired, so I decided to arrange a student practice activity with them. I had them role play a textbook conversation in small groups. It was a sunny day and I asked them all to get out of the classroom and perform the activity in the campus garden. They did it great! I was expecting they just said "No, teacher, let's go home!" but they really enjoyed it! To sum up, as everyone knows role play is an useful student practice activity that allows students to interact with their peers and feel more comfortably. This is something that does not happen regu;arly with their techers because the teacher is considered in an upper authority position by students. In another occasion, I would like to twist this activity choosing favorite movie scenes and show how good actors or actress they may be!
ReplyDeleteWe think that the best way for engaging our students in vocabulary or grammar is thorugh games, students learn better when the enjoy their process.
ReplyDeleteMy colleague and I had the same opinion about teaching baccalaureate students in our public high school. They came to baccalaureate from "básica superior" with English emptiness. So:
ReplyDeletewhat: We expected to see them working with short dialogues or working in pairs, but they do not have strong development of oral speaking, neither an average level.
so what: maybe students need to be motivated. Maybe, they received only repetitive activities, being passive learners with teacher-centered approach.
now what: motivate students to participate with short words, little by litter, not focusing on quick progress but accurate and strong. Provide them with short readings, fairy tales or popular artists, real contexts to students.
I had a class with students of second bachillerato and they had to do an audio book.
ReplyDeleteThey had to record their voices to add to her work.
What?
I didn't expect that just one person did the dialogue.
So what?
Students should be helped by me with some dialogues and pronunciation.
Now what?
I analized if I do this kind of work I should practice some vocabulary related to the topic given to them. I have to motivate to talk more in class and be free.
Talking with a colleague, we are agree with some strategies and techniques to use in a class.
ReplyDeleteWhat? My class was about Present Perfect and Simple Past.
I was expecting that students can write sentences in present perfect and simple past but most of them didn't do the acitiviy.
So what?The students found difficult the writing activity because they did not know the verbs.
Now what? The best way to teach this grammar tense given them a list of regular and irregular verbs so that they can learn them at home. After that, T. can asks them to write sentences using them.
Well, I teach phonetics and phonology and one of the things that I talk about with my colleagues is how difficult could be to students pronounced in the right way some consonants and vowels. We think that having good pronunciation will help them to develop speaking skills and will improve their pronunciation.
ReplyDeleteWell, we talked about one student who had a specific necessity. This student was no able to get the information for more than 3 hours. So, we decided to do something different with him. Everytime we had a quiz, we prepared it before and we took the quiz maximum 3 hours after the class in order to help the students. Sometimes it was successful, but it was not always the same. This student had something more difficult but we are sure we did everything for helping.
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