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Week 12

PREZI AND CUADERNIA

  The multimedia and Resources class has become a nice class because after finishing the second partial I have learned to manage many internet tools that will be useful for me in the future. During this week, I learned something about the use of a software that is very useful because it will help me to create my electronic portfolio. Cuadernia has been developed has developed with an educational purpose

Week 11

DEMO CLASS PRESENTATION

  This was an inter esting and really good week because I cluld observe my classnmates' demo classes, This was really useful because with it, I could notice some important aspects like strenghts and weaknesses when we teach a class. I learned it by putting attention to the presentations to identify the common mistales and the good aspects of how tp manage a class basing on my classmates presenytations, I noticed that keeping going a class is not easy because we need to be self-confident to have a good classenvironment with motivated students. This is so important for me as a future educator because I learned some important points as make funny a class but also useful to students learn and understand a topic without getting bored or showing uninterest.I think that all the important aspects I noticed from my classmates will be useful for me to use with my students to they feel comfortable and anxious to learn more and more everyday. I learned that motivation is the essential part or being an educator because we as teachers should be a little flexible with our studentsm, then they will trust us and if there is a problem I know that I will do something to help my students. This will give as a result a learning process during my class.

Week 10

LESSON PLAN A, B, C D METHOD

   In this week, after we have learned more with our calssmates' presentations about the productive and receptive skills, we have finished our lesson plans to present our class, the teacher gave us some advise again because we had some mistakes that we needed to correct before putting on practice our lesson plan to manage our demo class presentation. Fortunately, with the teacher advise we improved our lesson plans because we needed her help to notice our mistakes. Fortunately, the teacher feedback was very useful for us to have our lesson plans finished once for all. As I mentioned before, we learned all this with the teacher help and we also learned to improve our lesson plans from the past lesson plans we made in a wrong way. I will use this knowledge I learned during this week averyday to mput on practice in my lesson plans.

Week 9

EVALUATING LESSON PLANS

   Fortuntely, during this week I learned so much about an important topic, this is " checking lesson plans", it is very useful for us as future teachers to learn because we will be using this everyday, we have to base on some important points to have into considerations before finishing and putting a lesson plan on practice.I leaned about this important topic through the rubric that the teacher gave us for we to have acomplished a good lesson plan, I also learned to do it through making drafts of lesson plans, I could say that I learned to improve them from my mistakes.I think it is maybe one of the most important things for me I have learned until now because we will improve our lesson plans with this guide. I think, I will be applying all I have learned during this classs from now on in my daily activities because I will have to create lesson plans daily to manage my classes in a good way.

Week 8

Lesson Plans

This was a productive week because I learned much about lesson plans thanks to the teacher explanation. The power point presentation has clarified some doubts I had about lesson plans, although the teacher is not responsible of teaching us what a lesson plan is about. However, the teacher expalnation helped me so much as I already metined, the way I learned more about it was with the activities and the assignment I had to do at home about analyzing a lesson plan, it tought me some things with useful information about a lesson plan structure bacause I did not have enough knowledge about what a lesson plan is. I learned about lesson plans during this week by researching information on the internet, also by the teacher explalnation and by analyzing myself with the rubric and some advise I learned in my classes with taking notes. I think all I have learned during this week will be helpful for me from now on because making lesson plans is something I must know because it is something I will be using from now on as a future teacher to organize my class activities with my students.

Here, I leave a video for you to watch, it is really nice because it mentions some important aspects to take into consideration before we make a lesson plan, for me it is really good because it provided me some tips to improve my methodology at the time I create a lesson plan:

It is another video I will leave this video that shows exactly an explanation about the steps to follow in a new and interesting lesson plan that attracted my attention for its good and interesting speech. However, I think this lesson plan is more oriented for basic levels of English learners, but I hope you like it:

 

Finally, in the web site of the link, we can find many activities and materials as printable material that will be neccessary and useful for us to develop a lesson plan: 

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/lessons.htm

Week 7

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKING

 

During the present week I learned the importance of making good power point presentations because the teacher gave us some suggestions for improving it and to make them look better for they to look professional. As the teacher told us, we do not have to add so many words, only keywords that are going to help us as a guide to the viewers get the main idea because we will only use a few words and not lots of words that will be monotone and will make look the presentation boring.

    Also, it is important to add some pictures in our power point presentations because that represents something that will really help us to show our students in order to they get the idea in a better way, pictures are more likely to get the attention of the viewers, so it will really make our presentations attract viewers attention because our pictures will ilustrate an idea better than only words that will turn our presentations as not enjoyable.

   I learned all this thanks to the teacher example to make us notice our mistakes and to correct them on time to be better in our next presentations. Therefore, I think all the advice will be useful and applicable from now on to put it on practice in our presentation with our students to present them a topic in a better form to they understand us getting the main points  easier.

The next video has some tips to make look our PPTs better:

I also learned about the importance of teaching speaking because I read about the topic in the book the teacher provided us, as communication is the main point of learning and teaching a language, I learned some advice from that book that will really be useful in the future with my students through putting on practice the activities I checked in that book.

this video is a crear example of "discussion" that is an activity that is used to encourage students because they will improver thier speaking when they talk and share their ideas and opinions in a discussion activity:

   On this video we can notice one of the other suggested activities which is "Role-play" that is used effectively with students to make they play characters in an imaginary but real situation that is likely to happen, I think this this activity  is very useful because it activates their speaking and improves it giving good results: