week 10

WEEK 10 August 26, Final reflexions

“A strategy without tactics is a slower path to victory. Tactics without strategy is a noise before defeat” Sun Tzu

Some people used to say “there is no better time than least” now I can say yes, because during these weeks we has the opportunity to get information to make our classes different, this course has provided us useful opportunities to make important and relevant changes, we can offer our students autonomy, an important thing is to awake the curiosity to research, during these weeks strategies learnt to introduce technology in our process to teach English, have been difficult, but it was a real challenge which could overcome, I hope our student can overcome it too, when we notice that any of them do not have the correct path we should help them to find the right one, as well as Robert did with us.

“There are dreams which seem difficult, and they can be performed with determination”

When we had the first week of training most of us dreamed to finish quickly and now when the time had passed we would like to return, but we should come back to teach our students, while maintaining the same sense of wonder with which we began, we can realize that the reality is stranger than fiction.

Technology and Learning StylesTechnology

Week ) ..My reflection

This week was really nice, I finished my project, I realize that we have a lot of opportunities to teach in different ways, and then our student would receive more and better learning opportunities, now I am able to do many things by myself .I read some articles suggested this week, and I noticed this phrase, “Exploring Tomorrow's Education Today,” because  our students are not the same we were, actually education has some interesting offers, that teachers should take into consideration, we must first know and diagnose learning styles that our students have, what kind of intelligence they domain and how important  is combine them with the instructor´s teaching style, otherwise it will be a daily struggle and frustration when our students do not advance with their knowledge, technology would help to the solutions of many problems, and surely it is because we would have students motivated to learn, able to solve problems, and with different abilities to perform their jobs.

If we are based on the four pillars of education which holds the UNESCO which are: Learning to do, learning to be, learning to learn, and learning to live together, then we could say that we are applying what education really means, I mean to assist the process which help to put out the best of our students  ( applying appropriate methods related with learning style) to help improve their skills (taking account multiple intelligence) to update their talents, and develop their potential (guiding through technology).

If multimedia (videos, sounds, animations, and graphics) facilitates learning, so the technology will help teachers and students to improve the way of transmitting knowledge, to change the role of students, from passive to active (autonomy)

Teaching with Online Tools

WEEK 8 Teaching with Online Tools

This week has been really hard, unfortunately we have to conjugated with all daily work, I really like to have all the time to read about this new tools, I felt a little confused at the beginning of this week, the creation of our wiki class took my sleep many nights, three nights were necessary to create it, at the end I am satisfied and happy, because I know now that I can include interesting activities in my class, creative tasks for my students, and motivating ideas, I´ve included my work in power point with the idea to encourage students to develop their skill of listening. Voiceboard, Tcast, quizzes, etc these incredible speech tools are going to help teachers and students.

Navigating on easy test maker was nice too, here we can explore the idea about the tests we need to apply, and this site gives us great ideas to elaborate test in a better way, being a new era (technological one) teachers must be aware to manage and take advantages of these tools which enhance learning process and autonomy in our students.

Week 7: Learner Autonomy.

During this week the autonomous learning was the most interesting issue to be treated, I found this topic really useful to implement in class, because   autonomy and sufficiency are two requirements for leading succeful students, who are responsible with their own learning, the autonomous learners are able to solve problems, evaluate, reflect and develop new ideas and satisfy necessities by own, with a minimal help of teacher.

Teachers who implement this process create an environment where giving birth opportunities to fly by themselves and go wherever they want, they will land on autonomy directly, it can be applied with projects where students manage and get the information elaborating a draft which contains all aspects of the project, including  the result, so technology  is a great allied that contribute to get this purpose, because the students are involved in the cybernetic era.

Week 6 technology aids in large classes
This week has been very interesting because I realize that we can improve our work with technology, and  use it to develop projects (PBL), with power point we can realize that it is extremely useful to engage students, this also facilitates our job as teachers, however it is also true that we should devote time to the preparation of these materials, a well-developed and care process will make our classes successfully. Power point is a great tool to capture the attention of our students in big classrooms, we should not reject the opportunity we have to do our classes fun, active and students will wait with eager to learn English,students who are behind the classroom will have more opportunities to act and understand what is explained, we should take into consideration that sometimes large classes are not easy to manage specially for teachers who are beginning their work, so power point´s animations offer attractive presentations to engage student´s desires to learn, and we may even combine it with our teacher´s book.
We should remember that as teachers we also need appropiate places to work, a room equipped with modern technology would be helpful to do a better job, but that means we must be prepared to be a technology teacher too, give our students the opportunity to access to web pages is a good idea, we need to be sure that they do not waste their time in fruitless and undirected searching 

Week 5- Assessment, Rubrics and PBL

Week 5-Assessment/ Rubrics /PBL

One of the activities that most liked me this week was handle rubrics, which will help us  to guide students in their learning-process in a better way, to evaluate our students in this century is a challenge, we need to measure their  performance in a normal classroom conditions to check who is performing well and who is finding difficulties, rubrics could be a good help to realize about it, assessment has different ways to obtain and give information about our students, and alternative is one of them, the best of rubrics is, that we can use them variously, and all of them are useful, we can use rubrics to assess any skill or performance, it depends of our creativity or our necessities, they could be holistic or analytic. Another interesting thing was to be motivated to practice PBL because; it helps students to be more cooperative, to work in groups, and to be more independent, furthermore they become active learners, it requires critical thinking, we can use problem solving, in this exercises students do much more than remember information, they need to learn about how to work as a team and contribute to the group effort, about WebPages, teachers and students have easy access to them, different websites could be visit, they select a topic, or a page after that they can debate original questions using the arguments they found.It was a productive week......