PRACTICUM I

I would like to devote this entry to my experience on Praticum I. I have taken this decision because I would like to add a tile of the Official Language School of Santa Coloma. During my internship there I learnt a lot about interactive boards, as the majority of the classes have one. This resource allowed the teachers to work on their books in a completely interactive way. However, one of the books that they used, The New English  File, do not have all their materials ready to work on this platform. But, this year they introduced new books in some levels which have all their materials ready to work completely interactively. It was thanks to these books that I discovered all the effects that technology has on teaching English. Because of this fact, I have also added in my PLE a tile for a programme called Triptico, which enables you to create many materials for the students and even, to simulate television quiz shows!

WEEK 8 (17/01/13)

Today, as usual, we have started the class with two microteaching sessions, one on School Reports and the other one on the Second World War.

Afterwards, we have continued with CLIL. Today, the teacher has shown us some activities integrated skills and she has given us many resources to take into account when we do our own CLIL. Additionally, she has also handed us out some handouts to exemplify how we can go beyond when teaching some of these skills to our future students.

This class has been really useful because I have discovered a webpage which I think is really interesting, lyrics training, and therefore, I have added it to my PLE. Furthermore, I have added a tile on Shakespeare because I forgot it last week and a tile for Prezi, which is a program to create presentations. I had not added it until now because I had the opportunity to see it in class and I really found it very interesting and engaging. Finally, I have also realized that there was not a tile to visit some of the tasks that I have done for the subject. For this reason, I have added Google Drive in my Symbaloo.

WEEK 7 (10/01/13)

Today, the class have been focused on CLIL. To start with, some partners have done a really nice presentation about the origins of CLIL and how to implement it well in class. Afterwards, the teachers have shared with us a powerpoint based on CLIL. Specifically, there were a lot of activities around the topic: Shakespeare in Art. I think that it has been a very interesting and useful class as many new resources have been presented to us, which can help us in a future to introduce CLIL in an engaging and interactive way.

Furthermore, throughout this class, we have seen different useful webpages as wordle.net and glogster, which I have added to my symbaloo. Indeed, I have used wordle to do one of the tasks, the one in which we have to describe ourselves as future teachers. This activity is also added in the webmix. To do it, I have writen some words in capital letters -the core ones- and in lower case, a list of adjectives, which describe me and therefore, can help me for my future teaching.