Plickers & Kahoot

Después de escuchar a muchos docentes en activo y de poder comprobarlo en mi propia piel, puedo admitir algo que estaba bien claro sin siquiera investigarlo: la escuela necesita transformación.

Y no me refiero al tipo de centro en sí, que tal vez necesitase un reajuste, sino a las metodologías que los profesores llevan utilizando durante siglos y no se han decidido a abandonar. 

Hoy os traigo una novedad que os resultará muy interesante para trabajar en vuestras clases y que está a la orden del día, es decir, se ajusta a la escuela del siglo XXI. 

CLIL, una ayuda para la clase de inglés

En este post hablaremos del programa CLIL ya que se trata de una herramienta de la que nos podemos beneficiar los profesores de inglés y para la que se necesita la colaboración del departamento de lenguas de los centros que deciden utilizarla.

La clase invertida

Es cierto que hoy en día está muy en auge que se innove y se quiera intentar una gran variedad de nuevos formatos para la enseñanza, por esa razón desde que conocí el término Flipped Classroom me interesé por lo que este nuevo concepto conllevaba. Principalmente, ha de conocerse que lo más significativo de esta metodología es que cambiamos las tareas de clase de una manera que aprovechamos las horas en el aula para resolver problemas, dudas y poner en práctica todo aquello aprendido. 

Digital Storytelling

¿QUÉ ES Y CÓMO UTILIZARLO EN EL AULA DE INGLÉS?

El Digital Storytelling o relato audiovisual es una técnica narrativa que se realiza con instrumentos digitales (webware, web apps). Hay diferentes tipos de storytelling (literario, audiovisual y verbal). En el transcurso de los años esta técnica ha llegado al mundo del digital market creando el digital storytelling.  Es una actividad completa para estimular la creatividad de los alumnos y favorecer la comunicación, para transmitir emociones y construir competencias en el campo de la escritura y organización textual.

Sugestopedia, una técnica diferente

¡Hola! Quería hablaros de un método de enseñanza del inglés que me parece interesante y creativo, y que quizás no es tan conocido como pueden ser el método directo o el método de traducción de gramática. Responde al nombre de Sugestopedia, y fue creado por el educador y psiquiatra búlgaro Georgi Lozanov.

Aprender inglés con la tecnología audiovisual

Ver la televisión en inglés, ir al cine y elegir películas en versión original y escuchar canciones en inglés son algunas herramientas que los niños y jóvenes pueden utilizar para aprender inglés. Es una fórmula muy atractiva para ellos ya que aprenden entreteniéndose y mejora no solo su nivel, pero también su pronunciación y su riqueza léxica.

Practising balance at PE

Aloha teachers!!

Today I'd like to tell you something I get attracted from the school during my teacher training course this year.

I'm quite interested in sliding sports, such as surfing, snowboarding, skating... And I like training my balance when I can't practise these sports.

What time is it?

Hello teachers!!

I've remembered how difficult it was teaching time to our children last month when we started with the first class.

How to improve listening in class

Good morning teachers!

Let's talk about listening, one of the most important aspects in English. Comprehension of what others are telling to you is fundamental.

Where do we sit our pupils at class?

Hi there!

I want to talk about behaviour of children at class and what can we do. I don't care about the punishment effect, I believe in cooperative work, in the effect that pupils' help can do in other's needs.

That's why we should think about sitting our pupils in tables of cooperative work and not by pairs or individually. Always taking account on their needs and abilities.

Working with rhyme

Aloha!

Today I'll tell you how funny it is for children to work with rhyme!

It's easier for them to practise pronunciation and they get attracted by the language.

Counting to 10

Aloha teachers!

These days I've been experiencing how students are learning to add. Watching and helping them I have remembered how I learnt when I was a kid. I used to manage with abacus when I started but that is an old technique.

Nowadays, the children are learning to count out to 10 with some different methods and this one caught my attention.

This is the Magic Rainbow

Toys for children

Hello teachers & families!!

Today I'm going to show you a good a good toy producer.

Mixing letters

Good morning everyone!

I'd like to talk about an usual problem at class, mixing letters. When they are learning the alphabet, they use to mix up certain letters by pars: 

p and q

g and q

l and I

b and d

Education City

Aloha friends!

Today I'd like to talk to you about something I found interesting at the school where I am taking my teacher training.

This is Education City, a website where children can work on-line about any subject as an assignment. This is full of interactive learning materials that are sold to schools or families.

My English Teacher

Hello bloggers!

Today I want to show you a great resource I found in the web when I was looking for a key to practise my speaking with a real people in a conversation.

My favourite story when I was a child

Hi everyone!

I've been told again to talk about my past, today about my favourite story when I was a child.

Buff, this is a difficult work because I've always loved Story-Telling. I was that annoying child telling his mummy and daddy to tell a different story every night. Of course they always tried to made me believe that they were different but at the end I caught them, they only changed the characters names!!

English Teacher Websites

Aloha teachers!

Today I'll show you a must in today's English teachers. A website where you can look for many resources from other people and share your own work.

Curious things in Teacher Training

Good afternoon!

Today I'm going to explain you some of the things I found interesting during my teacher training this year in a British School.

ICT Storytelling

Hi friends!

Let's talk about storytelling today, the best way to teach literature in the world!

Nowadays, everything is changing and it's leaded by technology. Also storytelling got attracted by ICT in a attractive way for the children. Here you have some ideas combining storytelling with ICT.