Hi everyone!

Last week we were told to write down about some principles for our project. After talking a lot we decided those principles that are separate on three headlands:

The first headland is THE TEACHERS’ COMPETENCES OR ATTITUDE:

• We think that the teacher is supposed to be flexible: what we mean is that the teacher has to respect the children rhythm. Each person has our specific rhythm and our work as teachers is to adapt ourselves to their rhythm and to adapt it on all the class, to go everyone at the same time. So other attitude can be to be patience but, we think that is related with the flexibility and respecting the rhythm, because sometimes everyone is fast but just one is slower, so with a lot of patience we have to achieve to stay everyone together. Al so, the teacher can’t shout to the students.
•  To stay everyone together we can observe that the collaboration is essential. Work in groups, help to other students. We don’t have to forget never that the teacher is the model, so we have to work in groups and the students will watch it and copy us.
• The teacher has to be motivated. If the teacher is motivated the children will be to. And for us it is very important because, with motivation the learning will be more and more significant.
•  The positivism is also so important. The teacher has to believe in the children abilities and believe that all the children will go on, on their mode.
• Almost creativity is very important. From our point of view mathematics, languages and all those subjects are important, but we can teach them those subjects in other way. With creativity we can make some activities attractive. Moreover, we can teach them just being creative with activities like; painting, drawing, acting, singing…
• Active. Is one word that can say lots of things but what we mean with it is that the teacher needs to be active and teach things by doing. It is also one strategy but we think that to use this strategy on the classroom.
• The last competence is that the teacher has to be interested in children previous knowledge.

The second headland is the strategies to be used in the classroom:

• When we mentioned the creativity we talked about using some material that creates interest. For instance, when we are teaching them the names of the colors, we can show them some “Manleys” or when we are teaching them the names of the instruments carry there some instruments and let them playing them. Moreover, and related with the creativity, we can let them doing some activities like; playing with dolls, doing manual works, reading book, watching videos, singing songs... (all of them  are objects that create interest on them and help them learning better).
• We will use some rituals, like start and finish the class with some songs…

And to the last headland we use the others name:

• We want to show them that English is funny, that they can use English wherever they want and have fun with it. So for that, we can use English with exercises they like, going out of the classroom or school territory…
• Moreover, we have to take in count that there are children and we have to teach things that are related to their level.

After listening to other class groups, we had added more principles.

On teachers’ abilities:

• Take account the children needs and point of interest. (We can relate and add it with being interested on students previous knowledge)
• Work with other schools, using Skype… (We can related and add this with our point of collaboration).
• Being open-minded.
• Be passionate with our work. (We can related and add it with being motivated).
• Create equal opportunities for all the children. Respect see them as a person (they are children but are person too). (We will relate and add it with flexibility).
• To be a researching teacher.

On strategies:

• Use those activities too: crafts, create histories, workshop…
• Activities to experiment…
• Use body or corporal expression and make kids also using it.
• Respect the interests of OUR CILDREN. (Not curricular, the interests of our students).

On others:

• Use English with other subject. (We can relate it with using English with funny activities and go out of class.
• Talk in English all the time.
• Feel English useful. (We will relate it with funny and using it out of school).
• Some works to do with parents and at home. (With this exercise we can make collaboration school-home/family).
• Evaluate their process as small as they are.
• Do not obligate do to nothing.
• Don´t keep them the chance to participate.

Wainting to your publications to take more information.

Se you

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JOURNALIST

Hello! Today, I am the journalist. My name is Leire.

In the class of the 23 of October, one student for our class, red us one book that it is called “Don´t let the pigeon drive the bus!”. So, all the class we put in a circle and we listened her carefully.  It was very nice! She made us talk and take part!

The book is a children´s picture book by Mo Willems. Released by Hyperion Press in 2003. The plot is about a bus driver who has to leave so he asks the reader to not allow the pigeon to drive the bus. The pigeon tries many excuses and tries to finagle readers into letting him drive the bus.

Without we realize, “Don´t let the pigeon drive the bus” obligate us to put ourselves in the place of an adult that he have to deny something to someone younger than him. And we must confront to faces of 'good boy', tantrums and desperate emotional blackmail.

Also, the book can be considered as a game: every time that the pigeon say us that it wants to drive the bus, children will have to say “NO”.

After the book, we have put in groups and we have done one list about the principles of our project. The principles are about what we want to do for children learn English in a fun and active way.

When we have finished doing the list, we have spoken about our principles all the class. So, we can have put or change other principles in our list that we have liked.

Then, all the groups will publish in the blog their list. So, all the people who want, will can see it.

Finally, in the next publication, my group and I have published our list with some principles that we would use in our school to teach English. We hope it will be interesting for you and for all the people.

BYE! 

Hi to all!!
This is our list of good things and bad things to learn a new lenguage.
GOOG THINGS:

• Speaking in that lenguage.
• Reading a books or something like that in that lenguage.
• Watching videos.
• Doing exercises.
• Singing songs.
• Practising.
• Speaking with other people.

BAD THINGS:

• Not practise.
• Having a bad teacher.
• Having a bad lenguage.
• Don´t be motiveted.

Also we wrote about bad and good education. This is our list of it.

GOOD EDUCATION:

• All the time practise the leguage.
• Feel like home.
• Have flexibite.
• The teacher have to be goog teacher and be motivited.
• Arts activites are more inportant than learning maths.
• No memorise LEARN.

BAD EDUCATION:

• The class be not interesting and every day do the same thing all the time.
• Having a bad books and notes about the lenguage.
• If the books are not modern.
• If the all class the student are doing only grammar and not practise the lenguage.

Hi everyone!

In the other class we saw a documental about school prohibited and we liked it a lot. We did some reflections and we would like to announce you:

• In the school you must know reading, writting and calculating. If you don´t know these others activities you aren´t educated.
• The student must be free to learn.
• Love is necesary for learn.
• Learning in group is better than learning alone.
• If you aren't happy in the education it means that you aren´t educating

Definitely, the most important thing in education is that the student must be free and must do freely the diferent activities.

Kisses!!!

Wellcome!

Hello,
We are Maialen, Nerea, Eli and Leire and we just want to share with you our blog with our insights and contributions to our didactic unit about different topics.

In the next publication we will show you our picture.

we hope you will enjoy it...

xxx and hugs

Take care ;)