DIDÁCTICA DE LA LENGUA INGLESA

During the last days of the subject, we have learn about how to make a syllabus, what are the main points to do it and we have time in class to started and asking every question we have in order to complete it. The main points of the syllabus are: ·         Introduction, in which we have to contextualize the school and make a brief summary about what are you going to do. ·         Objectives, including general contents of stage and specific contents related to the course you are going to work with. ·         Contents, including every content of the course. ·         Evaluation, including the evaluation criteria and the tools of evaluation. You have to include self-assessment of the student and the teacher. ·         Competences ·         Methodology · ...

In this post, I will talk about all the presentations we did in class about the chapters of the book “English for primary teachers”. We will divide each group in two parts: what I have learned in the presentation and one activity that I consider interesting.  1.       Teaching young learners (2-11-17) What I have learned in this presentation I show to teach a second language to young children. The best way to do it is to teach them like in their mother tongue: enjoyable activities, repetitions, routines, pictures, puppets, positivism… In this chapter, the thing I considered interesting was the app “class Dojo” that our classmates show in which you have the list of your students and you can do individualize assessments or comments of each students. I think that this could be useful in our future as teachers. 2.       Listen and do (2-11-17) What I have learned in this presentation is how to teach children to list...

In this class, we talked about how to assess to young learners. The reason we have to evaluate our children is to provide to them and their parents evidence of their progress.   We have to evaluate everything: the different skills, the attitudes and the behaviour and social skill of our pupils. In this class, I have learned about different resources and tools to evaluate our future pupils. For example, rubrics, teacher notes, revise homework, oral and written exams, self-assessment, etc. In my opinion, we have to show our pupils that evaluation is not a bad thing because they are used to be afraid of that word because society have always gave this word a negative meaning.

In the first part of this class, we revise some storytelling of our classmates to realize how important is this stories when you teach to children. It is important to know that you have to adapt the level of the story to our course. In the second part of the class, we talk about the assessment criteria or evaluation. We have talked about it and I have learnt that we have to change the idea the students and ourselves have about the word exam or evaluation. When we talk about this idea we get nervous, worried but it is not true. The evaluation have the aim of giving us the opportunity to improve. We also talk about the internal and external evaluations that was provided in schools. Also, we talk about a new idea that it is new for me. We can evaluate ourselves as a teacher. It is not compulsory but I think that it is a good idea to do it sometimes because it gives you the opportunity to improve your teaching methods in case of not being very suitable.

In this class, most of our classmates were in a course and we take in one day two classes. This was the reason why I am talking about to different days. First of all we did a questionnaire about what are the main skills a teacher should have. In one of those skills we talk about infographics. The infographic is an informative visual representation or diagram of written texts that summarizes the information. It could be animated even with sounds. The infographics transmits the information graphically in a more dynamic, lively and imaginative way. This is very interesting to know how to do it because students learn better with pictures that lead the students in their learning. After that, talking about how to give lessons we talk about flipped classroom. This a way of learning in which the student learn out of the classroom. One example is unicoos which is a youtube channel in which David Calle explains mathematical lesson to his students. This innovative way gives the opportunit...

In this class, we started to talk about the importance we think that E-pel and Europass have. This was the main point we talk about: E-pel Europass ·         Reflect about your level in English language. ·         Reflect your progress. ·         It shows the objectives for your future. ·         You have to write the ways you learn de language. ·         As future teachers, it shows what is useful and how to teach, according to your experience. ·         You can think about your skills when you go abroad. ·         It is useful when you try to find a future job Then, we start to talk about the syllabus, which are programming for a whole year. It is important to change...

We start this class doing a table about the different levels we have in the different skills according to the CEFR. After that, we saw a website in which there are many exercises to improve our skills in English, divided into levels, languages and skills. We talk also about how important is auto evaluation for us and to our suture student because it gives us the opportunity to learn about yours mistakes and try to improve it. Finally, we talk about the European pass and how important is for us in order to find a job in our future. In my opinion, this class was so useful because we can apply all we talk and learn in our future as teacher.

In this class we have talk about Castilla-La Mancha curriculum. This is the summary of what we have learned in the class: The most important points are: ·         Standards (new) ·         Three subjects: core, specific and free configuration ·         Evaluation criteria ·         Methodology: comprehension and oral expression ·         Classes in English ·         Teacher’s role ·         Action Before this explanation we have to do a comparative chart between the elements of the curriculum and the elements of a didactic unit. As I said before, this presentation are important in our future as teachers because we have to learn everything about our law.  In addition, we talk about the Common European ...

In this class, we revise the Royal Decree, more specific the first foreign language curriculum which show us the main principles such us the interdisciplinary vision, the teacher’s role and the teaching-learning competence. Also, the RD shows the organization of the decree but we have focused in key competences. After that, we did an activity related with it. In this activity we have some English exercises in which we have to search what competences the activity works. This is a good way to practice for our future teaching.

During this class, we review the presentation about the organic law on education. This presentations show us a summary about the main point, principles and history of this law. Th en we have to elaborate in groups of four a mind map of this presentation using the technologies and a written test to revise if we have understood the presentation. In my opinion, this type of classes are interesting because we discuss the different main points of the law which we are going to use every day in our career as a teacher.

The first day of class was about a presentation of the subject. We have known all about the concepts of the subject and the activities or projects we are going to carry out during the year. We have just met the teacher and we have already studied some concepts last the year so, from my point of view, it would be easier to follow the subject.

“The class diary is a writing activity in which the student appropriates gradually his process of knowledge, as he is free to choose what they want to say or express to recover the experiences, analysis and dialogues developed in class, in line with what for him is significant” (Goldoni Ruiz, 1996) The aim of this activity is having the chance to reflect about what we are learning and practicing every class. I will write daily so, the diary will be organized into dates. At the same time, every day will be divided into two parts: summary of the day and personal opinion about what I have learned in this class.