Methodology

miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2012

Lesson Plan Cátedra1 Methodology II

The teaching-learning process has been described as a whole element which is close related to the components of Metacognition, these are metacognitive awareness, metacognitive regulation and metacognitive experiences. This means that metacognition includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or solving problems. Therefore, to plan every class is essential and very necessary for teachers and learners. The Lesson Plan is the tool the teacher focuses his/her knowledge to be given to the students. The content is organized to save time and optimize the teaching process according to the sources and the students’ interest.

The lesson plan is created for the student of Second grade of Secondary school. Students will be able to achieve objectives proposed in this project, because all the activities are adapted and designed according to their reality. The textbook that the teacher uses for this level is a little bit difficult for them, so it is crucial to adapt and omit constantly activities which most of them are in an upper level. We considered that students can be engaged by showing some videos according to the grammatical content that they have to learn as an interesting way of learning.

As future teachers, we must model the class in order to monitor the students what they are learning. We could use some tricks to help students learn when teaching lessons. These tools might be games, songs, online pages, videos, several worksheets, crossword puzzles, etc. This will help them remember during more time when information is connected to something else.

Methodology’s classes have been very useful to achieve this difficult task. Through this subject we can analyze the textbooks and decide on the activities that are suitable for students. Moreover, we can apply some criteria in order to recognize when omitting, adapting, replacing and adding.

To conclude, we are concerned how important is to have clear the concept of metacognition to our careers, because this concept is immersed in the teaching-learning process. With Metacognition the students learn through self regulation to know what way is the best to study for them. Therefore, they know what kind of intelligence accommodates to them. These intelligences or learning styles are: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. To teach in public schools is not as easy as someone could think. This is a real challenge for us, and we will do our best to achieve this.

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lunes, 27 de agosto de 2012

Textbook activity

The textbook is a very useful tool when teaching English. It guides us as teachers how to teach a matter and it gives the students some resources where they can find valuable information to develop their English skills. In this work there are some changes that we decided to make in order to improve the quality of activities, but in general, this texbook "English as a Second Language" is a very complete work, which is well designed for intermediate students who are interested on learning English.

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miércoles, 1 de agosto de 2012

How to describe learning and teaching

Though adults may have more trouble with pronunciation and grammar than younger learners, they may still be able to communicate fluently.

Children and adults who acquire language outside the classroom share some similarities. First of all, they are usually exposed to language which they more or less understand even if they can’t produce the same language spontaneously themselves. Secondly, they are motivated to learn the language in order to be able to communicate. And finally, they have opportunities to use the language they are learning.

Children and babies get endless exposure to their first language coupled with emotional support. Adults living in a foreign country get continual exposure to the language at various different levels and can get help from the surrounding language speakers. These features have some difficulty when trying to apply within the classroom.

There are three elements that need to be present in a language classroom to help students learn effectively. They are called ‘ESA’. They are:

Engage: This is the point in a teaching sequence where teachers try to arouse the students’ interest, therefore involving their emotions. Teachers will want to ensure that their students Engage with the topic, exercise or language they are going to be dealing with.

Study: It means any stage at which the construction of language is the main focus.

Activate: It describes exercises and activities which are designed to get students using language as freely and communicatively as they can.