The Cleaner

Suspence Short Story by: Corvalan Daiana, Diaz Julia, Medina Marina, Santos Noelia.

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How to cope with...

In this post I'm going to deal with the following topic: How to cope with "The Sherman Tank" and "The Indecisive" students.

I think that along the years we have been teaching we all may have had to deal with these kind of studens. From my point of view "The Sherman Tanks" are more difficult to deal with than "The Indecisives". 

  The Sherman Tanks are abusive students who confront with other students and teachers all the time. I think this is because most of them have low self stem and the best way to work with them is to make a connection. Affective filter is really important. We first have to stablish a connection with them and once we have done it succesfully we have to start working on the relationship with his/her partners.

 The Indecisives are a bit easier to deal with than the Sherman Tanks. I think that is a student is indecisive you have to shorten the options. I mean, instead of letting them choose give him/her two options to work with and in that way you'll make it easier. If it doesn't work you may guide him/her to choose one of the two options.

At the top of a high tree.

I used to love exploring when I was a child. I loved taking part of adventures and any kind of outdoor activities like climbing trees, riding my purple bike or just having walks with my brother and my cousins. I also enjoyed reading very much and I remember having a special place to do it. I used to climb the highest tree in my house, it had some brunches at the top that joined and created the best atmosphere to read. I felt free there, I could see green everywhere, the sky and some birds near me. I used to spend hours there reading or writing. Everything was great there until one of my oldest cousins, who is ten years older than me, gave me the best book I had ever read: "Elige tu propia aventura: Atlantis, la ciudad perdida". I just got fascinated by that book! I could choose the course of the story, it was amazing. I spent a whole summer changing the course of it and finding all the posible endings it could have. I still have that book, I'm keeping it for my son.

Technology in the classroom II

To coontinue with my previous post, I have chosen to post an article that I have found really interesting. It is regarding technology in the classroom, the importance of including it and how to do it. Teachers are sometimes afraid on including technology, this is just because they feel uncomfortable with it or because they do not know hot to implement it. Here you can find some ideas to start with...https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2014/may/13/modern-foreign-languages-technology-tools-students-fluent

Technology in the classroom

I'm going to share my experience as a teacher using technology inside a classroom. Nowadays we, as teachers, are asked no to let students use their mobiles inside the classroom which, by the way, I find ridiculous since this device is immersed in our society and students are the ones who use them more. From my point of view we have to take advantage from their knowledge on technology, use devices as a tool and not forbbide them since they may result incredible useful inside the classroom. Last year I started trying to insert this device in the classroom by asking students to download some apps to use in class like "Oxford, English-English dictionary". As a result I got really engaged students who were happy because this "forbbiden device" was now at their disposal and it was not a sin to use it in class.

 This year I decided to go further, I started using google docs to share ideas and to do homework online. I'm using it with my students from 1st, 2nd and 6th year in secondary school. The result has been great up to now. I have more engaged students, homework is really easy to correct, I just add some comments from my laptop and then we discuss in class.They can also work from their mobile phones or tablets. They can take all the files in there. Next step is to create presentations from google docs, I will try to work on the reader we are about to start reading through google... let's see how it goes...

FLA

Here I leave a link of an article that gives us a crealy description on FLA. It has also included a video on "Behaviouris second language acquisition" which is really clear and useful.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html

Instructional Sequence

TOPIC	MY TOWN
FINAL TASK	Create a brochure of your town for tourists.
STEP: 1	Look at a city’s map. Cut out the words at the bottom of the page and label the streets or avenues and the most important places you know such as “hospital, park, police station, restaurant, etc...”
STEP: 2	Read a brief description of each place and match it with the name of the place. Example: people go there when they are injured or ill, we can find it on the corner of Tapia de Cruz Av. and San lorenzo St.
STEP: 3	Watch a short video of people giving and asking for directions in the street. Identufy the amount of speakers, recognice places and important info about them. (Take down notes)
STEP: 4	Watch the video again and complete the sentences with the correct information about the places.
STEP: 5	Invent a town, draw a map of it and provide suitable information of places. Do not forget to include streets and avenues.
STEP: 6	In groups of 4 choose a town from your country, search some information about it on the internet. Create a brochure of that town. Deliver an oral presentation as if you were tourist guides presenting a town.