LENGUAGE SKILLS

1.What knowledge did you refresh?
All the knowledge was new for me and very interesting.
2.What did you learn?
I learn about teaching language skills. I conclude that all skills are important, but some times when people ask if you know English most of the times they refer if you speak that language. Some times the student need to learn more reading or more listening so it will be good to reflect on that before staring a course if that is not the case, that we have learn for general is that there is a silence period on the speaking process so I think it is important to ask students to talk in English but also work in the other skills because these will give them self confidence and determination.
3.What skills did you develop?
The skill that I develop the most in class was writing because we had the chance to make many activities.
4.How could your teaching be improved?
My teaching is improve because our teachers share with us some many activities to implement in class. At this moment I believe that it is good to work in reading with the students and also for the teacher because this helps a lot with the other skills, keeping on mind that “We cannot teach what we don’t do”.

READING AND WRITING SKILLS

From the module of reading and writing skills we were asked to answer this questions:

1. What questions were answered?

-How can I help to a student that is not good at reading? In class it was said that I will be good to do individual work to see what is going on, also star to read with the students and make questions. Get readings that students will like.
-What is a extensive writing? It is an exercise that improves the way you are writing. Steps: 1. Two minutes for skiming. 2. Write about what you skimed. 3. Read about what you wrote. 4. Skim the book again then star writing again.

2. What do you think you can do with the questions didn’t answer?

The reading: “Reading strategies of successful readers through the three phase approach”, it has an survey and at class we didn’t go over the results. I will check it again by my self.

3. How do you feel with experiences in the ELT – USB?

I have feel good. It has been a great experience for me because I have learn to many new things and they are different from what I do every day. I have had great teachers and classmates, to whom practice my English by learning about teaching the language.

BEING A GOOD TEACHER

From the reading of “GOOD TEACHING: THE TOP 10 REQUIREMENTS.”

There are many advice for teachers to be more professional at job. From the one that I like the most, “is reflected in what is said, but more importantly by what is done.“, I will say how it is done, I see many qualities from teachers. When I stared this course I thought the knowing the topic was a big point but now also I see that the way you can transmit the knowledge involves pedagogical skills that make easy to learn, and require teacher patient, preparation, creativity, disposition to change, to learn and teach how to learn, leadership, to be practical and enjoying being a learner and a teacher.

THE NEW ROLE OF STUDENS IN ELT

Questions:

1. Relate the words Autonomy, Active Learning and Learning Strategies.

In Active Learning the students are the center of the learning process, because the activities used in class need their participation since the teacher create the opportunities for applying information, but depends on students attitude to engage the materials to their learning process, it requires students motivation to develop thinking and interpersonal skills, so it is necessary that students take the decision to take part in the activities as a new way to improve the learning process, in that case we are talking about autonomy.

Students can also improve the learning language by using learning strategies because they can think about the way the learning process is taking place. It gives the opportunity to identify what learning strategy has been used for practice and self evaluation so they will be able to create a systematic path according to his/her needs and possibilities. The capacity of the students for taking a look inside of him/her self to see how is the learning process taking place and how to choose the strategies according for his/her self skills in order to get target language is all about students autonomy, because they realize a goal and choose the best strategies to get it.

2. Are you using the Active Learning approach in your classes? Give some examples.

No as a teacher but as a student. I had enjoy very much the class with active learning activities. I see that I used some skills that made easy and enjoyable the learning process, developing thinking skills as memory, to deduce, or infer from information as we did at the INFORMATION GAP ACTIVIY, working with others as we did we did THE ROLE PLAY, understanding better a subject and using all the language skills, as we did at THE NAME OF THE RECIPE.

3. From the different concepts mentioned in my module. How could you implement Autonomy. Active learning Activities and Learning strategy instruction in your classes?

Autonomy. At class, it was mention this: “learners Autonomy is concomitant to teacher autonomy” It means that if teacher is autonomous it will be easier to students to be too. So it will be good trying to asking them to participate, to let them bring material to class, do not answer all the questions, give them space to make mistakes and for reflection, giving responsibilities.

Active Learning. “ I hear an I forget, I see and I remember and I do and I understand”. To implement active learning activities in class the teacher has to create the environment for students to participate according to students age, the size of the class, physical space, time, goals.

Learning strategy. Having in mind the basic structure for introducing strategies, 1. Preparation : There are a lot of ideas that students may have at the begging . 2.Presentation. The teacher name the strategy, and explain when and how to use it by modeling it means to give an example. 3. Practice. When the student do the activity. 4. Evaluation. The student make a self evaluation, by sharing to a pair or in small groups or answering if was it useful? 5. Expansion. It is when the student can I apply the strategy to learn a new topic.