FORM: Assessment of Covid situation.
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES: Match the Pair.
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STORY-JUMPER: What happens with Christmas?
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STORYTELLING: Stop-Motion.
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17/12/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the last presentation about the topic “Teaching
young learners” (with an explanation about how we could introduce a foreign
language in young learners). Then, we talk about the deadline of the task and
the day of the exam. Finally, we saw how we have to organize the syllabus.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt how we could organize the syllabus and why
it’s relevant when we create a session. The syllabus is the plan that we create
to prepare the class, so we have to know what the organization is and establish
our own contents, methodology and activities around it. In this way, I’ve
understood that the main function of the syllabus is to be the base of our planning,
if there are some problems, it could be the support of our sessions.
3. Opinion.
We have had the farewell and I want to reflect about the importance of contact in education. In other words, as students, we need to know about the teacher and interests or attitudes, because it’s a form to improve the process of teaching-learning. In this way, the mask could act as a screen between learners and teachers, so it’s important to have a receptive personality to solve this obstacle.
16/12/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the presentations about the different topics,
in this case we saw and participated in “Speaking more freely” (with a toy to
contextualize the activities), “Reading and Telling stories” (with a story
about Christmas and a dice) and “Story activities” (with representations of
stories). After each one, we evaluated them and assigned numerical marks.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the possible activities that we could
create in order to teach different skills like speaking or reading. We’ve
worked with resources like a toy, a ball, a dice and other original things, in
order to offer an active learning through gamification. This methodology could
be used to create a peaceful atmosphere to share knowledge and develop skills.
Finally, we’ve seen that we could adapt different
topics for the same contents, so as a result we will promote the motivation of
students.
3. Opinion.
Teachers have the responsibility of teaching all
students through keeping their attention, so they have to renovate their
resources. In this way, we could use a toy or a dummy as audience to
contextualize the activities, for instance to show them the progress of
students. At the moment, we are living a pandemic, so it’s really important to
prevent future possible similar situations, in order to get the best version of
teaching, we have to create resources what could be used in both situations:
normal and covid. In this way we could use methods like “stop motion” or adapt
the activities with gloves and distances.
10/12/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the presentations about the different topics,
in this case we saw and participated in “Writing in English” (with the alphabet),
“Reading in English” (with a story about feelings and a "kahoot") and “Speaking with support”
(with a song and a bingo of activities for your free time). After each one, we
evaluated them and assigned numerical marks.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the possible activities that we could
create in order to teach different skills like writing or reading. We know the
traditional types of exercises such as “listen and imitate” that is used in the
Direct Method, but in this way, they propose activities with another point of
view to teach these skills. We saw ways to motivate students through
gamification.
We also worked how we could introduce more concepts at
the same time as contents, like the feelings in reading or art in speaking.
3. Opinion.
From my point of view, we have to be sure of the order
of teaching skills. In this way, reading could be taught before writing, but it’s
better to introduce the vocabulary for writing from the first year through
speaking in English all the time to practice the pronunciation and then start
with the written format of this vocabulary. In conclusion, we have to offer effective
learning, so we have to be focused on doing the task not in using the specific
skill, for example speaking. In this way, to teach a song we could introduce it
sentence by sentence or word by word, but through gamification, not only with
concepts and rules.
03/12/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the presentations about the different topics,
in this case we saw and participated in “Listen and Do”, “Listen and Make” and
“Festivals: Christmas”. After each one, we evaluated them and assigned numerical
marks related to specific points like the volume of the voiced or visual
things.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the possible activities that we could
create in order to teach concepts through, for example, listening. In this way,
I think that we could take notes about the presentations because they are very
useful to inspire us in the creation of sessions. For instance, “Listen and Do”
or “Listen and Make” add meaning to the knowledge through activities like “Role-play”
or the “Fortune Teller”, and you could organize it in a progressive way to
practice listening.
3. Opinion.
In my opinion, we have the responsibility of
teaching all students every day, so it’s really complicated to keep the
attention of them for a long time. In order to this attention, we could use a
lot of resources to make the activities more attractive to the pupils. In other
words, there are a lot of ways to create visual content, such as “Symbaloo”, so
we could spend time in using them to teach the learners and to give continuous
assessment through these types of activities. I think that our work as teachers
is to create sessions related to the contents, but we can change the methodology
of them.
02/12/2020:
1. Summary.
We started with the explanation of how we could create
a formulary. Then we had a debate about the importance of using web sites in
education to share the class with families. We saw some videos of learning to know
new ways to use ITC in our future class. Finally, we took notes about various
resources to teach different topics like reading through telling stories in “Storybird”
or listening through “SoundCloud”.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the uses that we can give to the ICT
resources in class. In this way, we saw that it could be unequal because there
are families without technologies, they could have only one phone in their house,
so it’s inaccessible to all members of the family. We’ve also seen that all
students should have a school computer, because it might be the possible solution
to this problem. As teachers, we have more work, but it’s better for students,
because we could upload all resources and projects to our website to share with
parents what are their kids doing in our classes.
Furthermore, let’s me say that it’s really important
to have a variety of resources as a teacher. I know the importance of the
motivation in learning, but now I have a lot of new resources to make the
presentations more visuals and attractive to learners through webs like “Symbaloo”.
3. Opinion.
In my view, it’s very important create
innovative sessions to motivate learners. I mean, we have to keep the attention
on the same contents for a long time, so it’s really complicated to offer
attractive classes. Now, we have a lot of ICT resources, so we should use them
in school. In order to have
normal classes in the present situation of covid, the ICT is very useful to
follow the teaching’s plan, for example, we could use “Screescastify” to record
our screen and give distance sessions with blackboard.
25/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We started with the explanation of what is the ICT,
and how it could influence the education in a good way. Then, we saw three
videos about how ICT resources motivate students to learn through actions,
because as teachers, we have to give them the opportunity of having this responsibility.
Finally, we worked and practiced with different applications from Internet to
develop our skills about technologies.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the advantages of using ICT resources in class. So far I have believed that the only way to use technologies in class is through the projector and presentations, because students are very young to be responsible about it. Now, I know that there are more forms of education, and using ICT could help learners to develop their autonomy. This resource could be a complement in the learning instead of an obstacle. Pupils could use technologies to search information or see visual examples, and they also could be motivated because of the combination between animation sessions and exploration of concrete materials.
3. Opinion.
From my point of view it’s very important
to know different resources to use in our daily life, as persons and as future
teachers. I mean, we have to be faster users of technologies because of the
time we are in. In this way, we could use our ICT skill to improve the
education through the opportunities that Internet gives to us. On one hand, it could
have the disadvantage of the dangers that Internet has. On the other hand, we
could get the solution close by our hands, so we have to educate the students in
base of being responsible with the sources that they use to promote their
autonomy.
Furthermore, we are living a strange
situation with the covid-19, but we could change things up to get a new
education. In other words, teachers need to develop their technology skills to
offer equality learning for all students, independently if they are in their
house or in class, so teachers have to control ICT to get it, and they could
only have it through the practice and investigation.
19/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We started with the explanation of the task “Syllabus
and Didactic Unit”. Then, we saw the presentations of each group that consist
in a video that includes the information about one method and the performance
of it as students and teachers. We worked with methods that the teacher gave to
us, so each group had different ideas and representations.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the importance of knowing different methods
to teach, because as a teacher we have to work with it, so we have to know the
advantages and disadvantages before choosing one. In this way, I studied the
types of methodology the last year, but through the performance I’ve seen the difficulties
of methods like The Silent Way, because it doesn’t provide feedback; or The
Direct Method, because it’s a good idea if learners have a base of learning,
but it’s quite difficult to explain concepts trough this method because you
only use native language and pupils are very young to understand it. But because
of the advantages, there are a lot of methods that we could combine like Suggestopedia
to get a class without nerves and have a relax atmosphere, because learners
study better if they are comfortable, or Communicative Language Teaching to
learn through the representation of real situations.
3. Opinion.
As future teachers, we have to practice
how we want to teach, so it’s important to know the different methods that exist.
From my point of view, we could use some of them in different levels of school,
such as the Total Physical Response with learners of 5-6 years, The
Communicative Language Teaching with pupils of the same level, or Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning and Multiple Intelligences
with students of 9-10 years. I have this idea of practicing with various
because all teachers have to renovate their form of teaching, so in this way, we
could adapt those methods to each level.
Furthermore, I think that the method of my group could
be quite difficult because of the performance. The Silent Way doesn’t have feedback,
so the representation of it consists only in the speaking and ideas of
students, the teacher point letters and they say them. I mean, it could be more
difficult than the other methods because we haven’t got examples of tasks. All
videos include a teacher who points something and students who read it.
18/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We started revising the task of Epel and Passport to clear concepts. The teacher answered questions about the dossier of Epel. Then, we finished the Unit 1 about the English Curriculum in Primary Education and we did the questionnaire of this lesson. Finally, we had a Kahoot to check what we’ve known.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the importance of reviewing concepts because then we can use them to summarize information clearly and understand them better. As a teacher, I have also seen the example of how it should be explained.
3. Opinion.
I think that it's important to learn how we could explain concepts in a correct way. We could apply the method used in this session to improve the class with participation and examples, and then we could have different types of questionnaires to attract students and motivate them. As a result, pupils will be interested in learning because of the various activities that we offer.
12/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We organized the dateline of presentations and tasks.
Then we debated about the goals of the task which we have to position ourselves
into a level. We saw the parts of the common European framework of reference
for languages and how it defines your level as a student of a language. Finally,
we worked with the EPL and what it is. About this we saw examples of a passport,
a linguistic biography and a dossier from the European language portfolio.
2. What I’ve learnt.
We’ve learnt the goals of the task of levels, because it could help you to see the weakness and strengths that you have. We also understood that the common European framework is paid by all of us, because it’s a basic part of education. CEF is related to EPL that it’s the European language portfolio promoted by the Council of Europe, and it consists of a personal document about the academic life that you have as a student of a language. It includes three parts:
- Passport (like a self-evaluation): About this type of material we could create one for the assessment with a rubric in a piece of paper.
- Linguistic biography (reflection about your experience with this language): It’s an useful resource for the assessment, because you could assign a level through this activity.
- Dossier (it’s only for you to know your progress as a student): It’s a material that we could create in class with paper, felt-tip pens, pictures… It could include where I’ve been, where I’ve gone, what I’ve visited (museums, cities…), descriptions of experiences…
There are two types of portfolios. On one hand, there
is “My first Portfolio” until seven years. It’s for languages in general, not
for foreign languages. On the other hand, there is “The Primary Portfolio” from
eight to twelve years. It’s a resource to mark your progress of those 4 years.
3. Opinion.
The EPL is a really important resource to give you
feedback about your improvement in the study of a language. In this way, we
have to offer opportunities as a teacher to have communication with everybody,
so it’s important to help students to understand us. I mean, we have to
generate situations where all students could participate without taking into
account the level that they have. About the class of today, I think an activity
that includes the parts of EPL. The activity consists in a presentation of each
dossier of students with the application “StoryJumper”, in this app they could
present their memories and experiences. Then, they will create a linguistic biography
about the experience with this language while they were creating the
presentation. Finally, they could evaluate themselves with the passport by the
self-assessment.
11/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw a video about the Common European Framework of Reference
(CEFR) and the levels that it includes. In the explanation we appreciated the
importance of knowing the level that you have and how it's relevant to know that
it’s the same in all countries in Europe. We debated about the difference
between plurilingualism and multilingualism, the concept of Approach adapted
that consists in a method focus on action-oriented, and the meaning of general
and communicative competence. Finally, we completed the task about our level
from CEFR.
2. What I’ve learnt.
We’ve learnt that the CEFR was being created to identify
the level of persons who study another language, so we need common levels between
different countries, and there are in the CEFR (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2). In
this way, A is for the Basic User, B is for the Independent User, and C is for
the Proficient User. CEFR also includes different skills like listening,
writing, speaking, reading, interaction and mediation which it’s when you
improvise translations to make person understanding another person. In other
words, when we have to prepare an official exam, we have to use the CEFR because
it provides you a common base about competences, contents, methods, evaluation.
The objective is to establish a good way that allows the communication. We saw
the application of general competences in a real context, with a real object of
our lives. Furthermore, about the Approach adopted, we saw that it consists in
a method focus on action-oriented. I mean, you guide the student in specific circumstances,
in a specific environment and in a specific action.
Finally, I revised the difference between general and communicative competence that consists in:
- General competence includes the skills that everyone has as a person: Knowledge (learning from experience), skills and know-how (the ability to do something), existential competence (attitude and personality), and ability to learn (being disposed to discover otherness).
- Communicative competence includes concepts like linguistic (the speech is adequate to the rules of linguistics as a system), social linguistic (the speech follows the social rules and it’s correct for the situation) and pragmatic (the speech is related to the context and culture aspects) to get and efficient communication.
3. Opinion.
From my point of view it’s really important to have a
common base between all countries from Europe, because it provides you a
specific plan of studies to prepare yourself to know languages. I mean, all of
us have to have the same skills in front of an exam, so I think that the CEFR it’s
a form to equal the balance of studies. Furthermore, we have to take into
account the context of these languages, because in this way we could learn the pragmatic
aspect at the same time that we study a new idiom. In reference of last, we
find a good example of its influence when you study an idiom, because it depends
on the culture of the place. For example, in Spain we speak different in each place
of the country, so if you study Spanish, you have to take into account the
context and the culture and you have to live here to distinguish the variety of
linguistic aspects from each zone. In conclusion, when we teach a language we
have to raise awareness of the importance of having a common base and how the context influences the meaning of language
in communication.
05/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the elements of the curriculum that includes
the objectives, competencies, contents, teaching methodology, standards and
assessable learning outcomes, and the assessment criteria. Then, we spoke about
the difference between core, specific and regional subjects in a school. We
reviewed the assessment worked other days when we saw the relevance of having a
continuous and global evaluation. We focused on the characteristics of
methodology of learning a foreign language, like preparing a session based on
an action, which consists in promoting the participation. Finally, we worked in
groups to complete the task of elements of the curriculum.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the importance of knowing the structure of
curriculum to prepare lessons. As a teacher, we have to promote the motivation
of learners by giving them tools and resources, opportunities to work in groups
and by using games in class. But, still, we have to be coordinated with other
teachers to offer a quality education based on developing the skills of
students. We also study the comparison between the two documents of the law,
and we see the form that they are related, and how we can use it like a base to
organize a class.
3. Opinion.
I think that we have to know the parts that compose the curriculum to prepare a class in a correct way, so in this case, it’s important to see the differences between the syllable and the decree, because it’s a basic part to establish the structure of a lesson. As a teacher we have to have cleared the different components of the theory to teach, but we also have to know how we can apply it in a practical situation with real children, so in my opinion it’s relevant working these concepts in our class before going to teach in a real school.
04/11/2020:
1. Summary.
We started reviewing the organization of the
curriculum in primary education and the parts that compose it to see the
difference between LOE and LOMCE when we compare them. Then, we worked in
groups to complete different tasks about this document to reflect its structure
in a visual diagram.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the importance of knowing how is the
structure of the curriculum, because we have to control it to prepare a class
in a logic way. As a teacher, we have to follow a plan to teach because we have
to offer the best version of quality education.
3. Opinion.
From my point of view it’s really important to take
into account the parts of the curriculum when we prepare a class, because we
could have problems with the structure of activities, evaluation or other
things, so we have to be sure about the objectives that we want to achieve and
reflect it in this document. Furthermore, we have to understand the history of
education to improve it, so I think that it’s interesting to know the different
changes that are being produced in this field to learn from it and offering the
best version of our classes.
29/10/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the last presentation of assessment and we
debate about if it’s better to see the presentations in a direct way or in a
record way. Then, we started to talk about the curriculum of primary that we
have to follow as a teacher.
2. What I’ve learnt.
As a teacher, we have to follow the curriculum to
prepare all classes, but the majority of us could think that it’s boring and it
takes a lot of time. In this way, we spoke about this document and how if you
don’t follow these instructions you haven’t got any problem, so there are too
many teachers that do what they want without be professionals because they
believe that it’s no important not to follow a plan. The result is that I’ve
learnt the importance of having steps to follow to create a session with a base
and organize the lesson around it.
3. Opinion.
The first part of the class was a debate about the
advantages and disadvantages of having a direct presentation or a presentation
like a film. On one hand, I think that it’s better to do the presentation in a film
way to lose the nerves, but it’s take a lot of time in creating the
presentation, record and edit it. But in other hand, having the presentation in
class could keep the attention better and could improve the participation
through interaction. The other matter that we worked is the curriculum. Before
the class, I thought that this document was enough extensive and boring, but
now I’ve changed my point of view about it and I think that we need the
curriculum like a base to be professional teachers.
28/10/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the different presentations of assessment
examples, and we participated in them to represent how it could be in a real
class with students.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt the importance of having a determinate assessment prepared before the class to know what we want to get. With my presentation, I also understand that we have to motivate students with good comments to improve their learning. Finally, let's me say that having examples is a basic tool in teaching.
3. Opinion.
In my opinion, we have to have examples about our work
to do this in the best version, so it’s important to see different
presentations about skills, activities and assessment. It’s difficult to put
yourself in front of all of the class and do the presentation, but I think that
it’s a good way to lose our insecurity and to work with partner like a
supporting group.
22/10/2020:
1. Summary.
We started reviewing the information of the last day.
Then, we used the resource of “Kahoot” to look back at what has been achieved.
The teacher explained us the importance of the planning based on standards of
assessment criteria to be objective with the assessment. Finally, we answered
another “Kahoot” to check the knowledge.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt that the collaborative work is really
important in education. We have to work with other teachers, so we have to
write the rules together and to using the same methodology to help students to
get a good learning. Now, teachers don’t apply this, each subject has a
separate evaluation. In other way, you have to structure the evaluation
according to standards of assessment criteria, but you can choose what
standards you want to use. It’s a form to recognize the effort of students
being objective. Also, it’s a form to structure the contents into levels.
3. Opinion.
From my point of view, future teachers have to be the
change in education, we have to establish a global assessment through
competences that connects everything, because in real life knowledge isn’t in
separate ways. In this line, it’s important having a variety lists of tools to
give individual attention to each student, so it could include checking the
homework of class every day, self-evaluation or co-evaluation; but the last one
implies having confidence in learners and give them the opportunity to have
responsibilities.
21/10/2020:
1. Summary.
We saw the benefits of assessment with young learners
to check their progress, and what tools we could use with them. Then, we went
over different tools to take into account when we’re evaluating someone.
Finally, we’ve learnt a new resource to create rubrics in education.
2. What I’ve learnt.
As a teacher, there are a lot of documents to prepare
when you are in a class, like the process of evaluation, assessment criteria,
rubrics, tasks…; I’ve learnt that nowadays there are a lot of resources to save
on time. In this way, we could choose our goals and the program gives you the
rubric, so you don’t have to create a scale or the criteria for each level.
3. Opinion.
In my opinion, it's important to adapt yourself to new
resources that appear. I mean, we have to renovate the methodology and if we
have access to ICT resources we have to use them, because it makes the work as
teacher easier, and it’s a form to save on time and spend it on giving
individual attention to the students.
15/10/2020:
1. Summary.
We observed the
differences between the old methodology of assessment and the new, and how a
bad review or a good comment could influence us to take decisions about our
preferences. Then, we shared our experiences about evaluation and how it
influenced our vision about the process of learning.
2. What I’ve learnt.
I’ve learnt that teachers have a big influence on
learners. For example, with a bad review as a teacher, you could get the
student not to like reading, or in opposite with a good comment you could get
the learner to like painting and in a future could be an artist, so it’s really
important to think before speaking, because your words could have a bad impact
on other persons.
3. Opinion.
A teacher has a really hard work, he has children to
teach and every comment could affect them in a positive or in a negative way,
so he has to be a sensitive person. In my opinion, the evaluation will be
always positive, you can correct a person without losing your patience and
using constructive comments to motivate him.
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