Another kind of education.

What would I change of education?

Maybe, this is a topic that is going to be talked for many students.


In our area, specifically, we have to chage many things. In the program says that the English classes are sessions of 3 hours in a week; how can we, English teacher, are going to teach everything if there are only 3 hours classes.


But really, what would we do to make it "better"? The program says that the texts has to be originals made by natives speakers with a complete idea, it has to recreate real situations in daily life, to work in teams, it talks about that at the end of the secundary school, the student has to be competitive to establish a conversation with native and non-native speakers of the language. All this contexts, are going to help to the student to develop his/her four language skills of communication (Speaking, hearing, writing, reading).

In the Escuela Normal Superior have an English assistant, who teach us more vocabulary, phonetics and gramar. I could say that if the secundary schools would have assistants too, the contact with the language is gonig to be better, the students are going to interact with a native speaker, they can practice that four language skills of communication. there are not going to be any problem, because the whole context is going to be in English.

Conclusion of the first and second practices.

During the first practice, I did not know what kind of students I was going to teach, I was so neveous. I only have 8 students in the first practice, so they could understand more the function of the class, the objective and they could do almost everything I ask them. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures to prove it, I lost my USB memory where I saved all my classes for this first practice.

For the second practice, I have more students (27 in each group). I did all by myself because I was the only teacher who was there, for that reason I could not take some pictures, besides that it was the last week of school, so I could not reach my "Performance Evidence" for all distractions.

Sports

Worksheet foud on Web to teach Sports that the students should know to express preferences.

2nd. practice. Lesson Plan 3

Lesson plan for the third English class

 

 

Expressing preferences, likes and dislikes

According to the "competences", the texts used in the class has to be originals, so I took an activity form an English book, which was made for the English classes. This activity was taken to express preferences.

2nd. practice. Lesson Plan 2

Lesson plan for the second English class

Peter's letter to Manuel.

Activity from the workbook.

2nd. practice. Lesson Plan 1

Lesson plan for the first English class

Cover letter

Cover letter signed by the Secundary School principal, where I made my practices from December 13th to December th, 2010.
"Escuela Secundaria Oficial Vepertina Defensores de la Patria"

Relation between Theories and Activities from the practice.

Accommodation and Assimilation Piaget's theory

Assimilation in the process by which new environmental stimuli are placed into existing frameworks. The child is increasing the number of existing frameworks into which new experience can be placed. Accommodation in the process by which a child internalizes a stimulus which does not fit any of the frameworks which already are possessed. When a child is presented with a situation for which no reference exists, the child must create a completely new framework in which to place completely new material. Accommodation is a qualitative change in the existing frameworks into which new experiences are placed. Once the child has developed the new framework, the child can assimilate the new experience.

According to this, when I did my activity "Colors" in my class, students already know how to spell some colors, this help me to teach other colors that they did not know. They assimilated the new colors in their knowledge and learned more. Then, when they were going to describe what people were wearing, they accommodated the cloth and the colors to describe personal appearance; not in the correct order, buy they did it by themselves.

Activity from the book

This was an activity taken from the book to lean vocabulary about clothes, and latter about colors. The audio was taken from the CD book.

1st. practice. Lesson Plan

Here is my Lesson Plan for the first practice at "Escuela Secundaria General Vespertina Venustiano Carranza". From October 25th to October 29th, 2010.

Verbs to express Cognitive type objectives

Second activity

Bloom's taxonomy of learning. Cognitive domain.

Blooms taxomony for Planing