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......

WEEK 4- READING WRITING SKILLS

WEEK 4- READING WRITING VOCABULARY SKILLS

During this week I reflected about  why people use to read?, and I supposed  they read for study or simply for pleasure, in my experience I realized students don´t feel motivated to read, so teachers  should make it easier for students because it´s useful for language acquisition, the more they read, they better they get at it, reading is a good way to increase students ‘vocabulary knowledge, if reading is developed with a well input process, the consequence will be an interesting writing, it is important to select authentic materials like books, novels, magazine, newspaper, etc. because they stimulate discussion, debate, and  imaginative responses. The web pages could be an excellent  “tour”  to take a glance, specially if they work  in  an interactive tasks like pairs activities, jigsaw readings,  after that  they can conclude in a fun writing or vice versa like the example from the page which Mykola Kisil posted  (make a story).

Oral Aural Skill Building

WEEK 3

ORAL AURAL SKILL BUILDING

When I listened about the listening and speaking skills I thought about what is the purpose of language? And how did it evolve to play this role in our lives? I think the answer is that we need the language to declare something, to express feelings and attitudes; therefore language is a tool with which we do things, all ideas are then transformed into words, they must have correct syntax to be understood by the rest of the audience, for that reason our students need to be competent sharing correct information

I think English curriculum is based squarely upon the four skills listening, speaking, reading and writing, aural and oral skills can't be separated, while teaching reading, for example, teacher is  at the same time teaching other skills.

I think  to develop oral-aural skills, the activities which works best are those where we can use lively songs and games, some repetitions of stories, (retell the story) tongue twisters with total physical response (they motivate the students very much) all of them share, of course a high value of communication

I would like to share some ideas in order to develop skills:

• Create simple activities to understand for the students. It´s important to be clear in the activities and focus them directly where we want them to work.

• Create challenging assignments that match their skills, in addition to
that they can be completed, if the student can resolve the tasks  they are going to be motivated to do them and to learn.

• These activities should focus primarily on developing the expression
oral, which, combined with listening comprehension, but remember that these activities  requires much more time
to be develop during the process.

• Writing activities should be included gradually, especially among
 small children, whose writing skills are just developing
in their mother tongue.