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:

 

Week 6

       During this week we received, we learned with a special exposition of our teachers Gabriela López where I learned so much about some important important web pages rhar will be useful to develop a class because all they contain useful activities for students and teachers. The reachers told us about how ro manage some web pages to improve ourselves as educators to create and ro fill our lesson plans with activities. The teachers told us something very important about how to use technology to be connected with others through using social web pages for sharing and researching information to keep updated with all the internet rools we need to be better in our field because on the internet because they have similarities each other.

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Week 5

                                              LEARNING REFLECTION JOURNAL

   This week was really productive because I learned very much of the important tool on the internet that we were already checking, diigo has been really helpful because with this important and neccessary web page I have saved some pages. Also, during this week I learned how to create a group on diigo, it was a discussion forum for we to discuss on it about a controversial topic as we are sharing our different opinions or points of views related to the topic we discussed.

 Another important thing I learned was about a web page that is good for students who are learning English, the page called www.esl-lab.com. on this page I noticed it is interactive for begginers as for advanced because it offers lots of exercises to develop for all levels of English learners, this page has also helped me a lot when I was in second level because teachers recommended me to use it this page taught me vocabulary, also I developed my listening and speaking skills. In conclusion, diigo and esl-lab.com is good for I to use in the future with my students to teach them how to use those important pages to develop their skills

I have found a video of how esl-lab works, this is useful for students who do not know how to use it: