Journal
May 22th, 2014.
In the second class, the teacher
asked the students to talk about the reading and how was it, what things they
had learned. Students shared their comments.
Then, students worked on two activities about a reading of a Dr. One
activity was about representing by using images and PowerPoint or prezzi the reading . The second activity, students had
to show by using graphics values, culture, traditions and costumes, vocabulary.
While the students were working the
teacher was giving feedback to the groups. Then, students had to share their
ideas to their partners. Also, students talked about the importance of having
technology to teaching English as a second language. It is important to known
that students should use technology not just for having fun but also as a tool
for acquiring knowledge day by day and applying
it into their lives , building a better learning process and expressing that
knowledge to their future, creating a
better environment and a better society
involved into learning a second language and creating new job opportunities in
the future. As a former teachers it is good to take into account methods such as websites for teaching students a new language and teach them how to develop their language acquisition in the learning process . There are many ways of learning English , thanks to technology students are going to receive better job opportunities in the future.
May 29th, 2014
The third class was about making
the project number one. Each group had to bring a linguistic objective and target
content from the High School National Program. Students started to create the
project by using PowerPoint, Excel or Word. While the students were working on
their project the teacher was resolving doubts and giving feedback to the
groups that needed help. It was
important to known, that the activities had to be effective for the students.
Students had to be able to develop their learning skills in the process of
learning English as a second Language, with the activities that the groups were
creating. The idea of developing the projects during the course help former
teachers to have an idea of how it is teaching students a real base knowledge using
the content from the High School National Program. Also, the creation of the projects can produce a better formation for the students, learning a second language can open many options to work outside of the country. Finally, some students asked the
teacher about the other projects and share with him some of their ideas.
Besides, the first quiz was applied. After doing the quiz the students could go
home.
5/06/
2014
Presentations:
In this lesson students presented their
projects. Some topics were about leisure activities, holidays en celebrations,
famous athletes, good and
services . Personally, Holidays and Celebrations and Good Services were my
favorite presentations. The classmates organized really well their Project.
Besides, the objectives were to catch students attention they really did. Students can perfectly
understand each activity, as well the teacher. Those activities followed each
indication created to develop students learning education. Moreover, the other groups did a good job and the
critiques were well received. The teacher gave feedback to the students for a
better development in the following projects. Also, presenters asked questions
about their presentation, they wanted to know if their ativities were achieved.
Students gave their opinions respetcfully.
12-06-2014
Students worked on their Project, by using storybird and movie maker in groups.
The teacher asked to the students to use a target content and an
objective. Students had to take into
account these instructions and start creating their projects. Basically,
students divided the project to be more organize and work faster in class.
Every student of the group worked and helped in the project. Cooperation and
creativity were fundamental due to the students had to make an story by using
storybird and a video by using movie maker. Also, each member of the group helped
the other adding some ideas. The sequence of the story, for example; it had to include the topic from the target
content, it means; coherency. The story had to be understood by the students
and it had to showed relevancy in the aspects of the education of the students,
students had to understand clearly the story and get knowledge about the story.
On the other hand, movie maker was a complicated tool, the student in charge
had to looking for images and add
comments about the topic selected. Imagination and creativity were
useful this day, students were working again in groups and were divided to
looking for specific information. The teacher gave feedback and share some
ideas with the students. After that, students went home.
19/06/ 2014
In this lesson students worked again on
their storybird and movie maker project.
The teacher asked to the students to check each one of the activities prepared
for the lesson. Students talked about different ideas and changed some activities in order to follow the objectives
and the target content. Students worked in groups. Some students finished the project
before the class was ending, the teacher allowed them to go home. Some others
stayed working on the project. Also, the teacher was supervising student’s
project by giving feedback on how to develop students skills in their
activities. Students asked the teachers to help them to develop in a better way
the activities. After finished the
projects the students check their
activities carefully. After that, students went home.
