OBSERVATION N°5

 START DOING OBSERVATION 5 , TO BE PRESENTED NEXT THURSDAY. CHOOSE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH ONLY. TRY TO VISIT ANOTHER INSTITUTION. YOU CAN TRY A PRIVATE ONE AND OR A DIFFERENT SCHOOL.
GOOD LUCK :)

Read and save in your Resource File

Read 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom

• Section 1  and Section 6 (rhymes and chants)

Read Drills from"Learning Teaching" Scrivener


You have to select the activities you like, not all of them will be of your style, choose the appropiate ones and save them in your Resource File.

Have a nice week and study for your exams :)

Reflecting and writing

Having in mind your performance, start reflecting about it:
Hand in a paper containing the activities before and after the one you present, I will clarify it again:
Tell exactly what you will do before, for example: What will the children do?
What will you give them? Which words? Which actions?
In order to think about that, try to connect the three activities.If I do something in the first one , it´s because I need it in order to help my students, understand, do , write, draw or whatever you intend to do in the third activity.





Hope you didn´t forget about the journal, so start writing:
How did you feel preparing the performance, during it and after it?
Was it as expected? Did something surprise you or not? Do you know anything new about you? etc.
 

Reading chapter 2 (Halliwell)

We have discussed content goals and a bit of attitudinal goals. Make a drawing in which you show the percentage they have as you move from very young learners to later stages.

Decide on correction, what?, How?, When? , Why?
Think of the question "Do you understand?"

What are mistakes for children?

What´s INFO GAP?

Think of possible ways of giving instructions , you will be asked to give some instructions in class.

SEE YOU!

After reading the 1st chapters of Halliwell and Scott&Ytreberg

So..........what implications do these characteristics have on our teaching?


Complete the sentences with the most appropriate concept/s.

1- Activities should include................................................................................................................................
2-Language learning is experiential so you will work with...............................................................................
3-Play with the language making full use of......................................................................................................
4-Not only words you need also......................................................................they understand the whole message, before learning new words.
5-Variation means................................................................................................................................................
6-Reality for them includes................................................................................................................................
7-They benefit from.............................................they give them a sense of security.
8-They learn......................................rather than ...............................for example through.................................
9-Focus on .......................................rather than. form.
10-Take advantage of the pleasure they find in ......................................and........................................................

Be careful

The site I´ve chosen to let you download the observations file, asks you to give a telephone number. Don´t do so, if you can`t download it without giving the number , I will give it next class through my pen drive.
Sorry for the inconvenience, I´ve just realized that. Happy weekend :)

Observations file

Here´s the link .Cross your fingers!!!!!http://es.scribd.com/maria_grosso_3/d/86963266-Observation-File-2012

Now click on it and you can download the file. Good Luck!