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AUTONOMY AND ACTIVE LEARNING

I consideer myself an autonomous teacher but reconigzing that I always have to revise myself . I´m of the teachers who like changes and apply new strategies to make my students beware of their learning process. As I said before I do as many activities as I can being focused in their autonomy, also I try to make lots of reflections in which I use words like "you are here, and you choose if you want to learn or not" "everything is cause and effect" don´t expect good results when you are not giving everything of you. I think those kind of phrases make them think a lot that they are not littles children anymore.
I love my class!! I have a lot of fun with my students, I really care about their pieces of creations and work, I think is really important for them to know that you valorate their work.

The module helped me a lot. And I agree that students have to be the center not the teacher, cause they are the ones that are learning so they must take an active place in every activity proposed in class. I try to give them a lot of guideliness or instructions in order to make them more autonomous and to make them be more active in each stage of the class.

For me learning strategies are those actions that help students to reach or approach an activity.
if I use them..of course all the time, I´ll take into account that learning estrategies work better if I use them explicitly.

My conclusion would be that students more than learning they must start thinkig in english
and we must be very clear with them at the time of an instruction, when they are conscious of their processes they´ll do a big effort to give the best. Another thing the grades are not really important, the importnt thing is at the end of the year they could say I learned something new
and I enjoyed my classes and my teacher pretty much!!

lesson plan

Hey.. I say sorry for the incomplete task but i did it and I spent like one hour and lost the information.
I´send you the lesson And I promisse to sed the other part tomorrow.


LESSON PLAN
Stage I

OBJECTIVE: I do use of the language in a predictable Content.
Language functions:
· Expressing preferences
· Giving information about people and places
· Predicting about future plans
Skill practiced: LISTENING – SPEAKING – READING - WRITING
Topic: THE PLACE SHE WANTS TO GO

Warm up
The psychologist: A volunteer get out of the classroom; the students in a circle must seem like crazy, and they must answer the question that the psychologist (the student outside) do to the left partner. When the student outside enter, he has to start making a personal question to each student. The psychologist has tree opportunities to guess what their problem is.
introduction
Elicit ideas from the students about the title THE PLACE SHE WANTS TO GO
presenting the topic
Resources needed: a picture of a person and the teacher’s guide.
To show the students a picture of a person, after that, elicit with the students what place they think she will travel for vacations?
Read some information questions (guide) and give those ones in a paper to each student; they’ll make an idea about you want them to imagine. Finally, invite them to predict (before you explain what it is) about the girl traveling to the country chosen for them.
GUIDE:
What country is she going to choose?
Why is she going to choose that country?
Who is she planning to go with?
How is she going to get there?
Where is she going to stay?
What tourist places is she going to visit?
How much money is she going to spend for the trip?
Any especial anecdote….

Practice stage
Resources needed: pictures, magazines, books, dictionaries

Propose a competition:
Instructions: make groups of tree in which they have to create and write in a piece of paper a story using the information they predicted mentally from the guide, they need to use their imagination to create a nice and fun story.
They’ll have 30 minutes to finish. When they finish each group will present and read the story aloud to the class.
The best story will be the one who applied all the information given in the guide, and had a very special, innovative and creative content.
The group who make the story with all this characteristics will be the winner.
Evaluation
The winner group will be chose for the students giving a vote per group
(Informal assessment – Peer evaluation)
Wrap-up
In the next session or class they have to personalize and contextualize the last activity (story) with the next instructions:
Integrating systems and social studies classes, they will create individually a power point presentation with their own vacations plan prediction, they will include in the presentation pictures from the country chosen for them to travel.

STAGE 2

Wrap-up
Resources needed: computer, power point presentation given by
the teacher, internet.
Instructions:
1. In the system classroom they’ll dispose to watch the model created by the teacher in order to have them clear about what the teacher requires for the power point presentation.
2. They’ll start to create their own story with the same characteristics from the last activity.
3. They proceed to create the power point presentation using the system teacher’s help.
4. The social studies teacher is going to help students giving them guideless needed for them.
5. They have the time class to prepare something great!
6. They’ll receive instructions for the next class or session. They will present the PowerPoint presentation to the whole class.

STAGE 3


Evaluation
Resources needed: a computer, and a video bin.

They’ll present to the whole class the presentation done, read and talk about the experience about doing this work.
They will do self assessment.

WHAT I´VE LEARNED DURING THE COURSE

Well it seems to be that all the knowledge we have been recieving is just making me remenber all the possibilities we can use and adapt as teachers.
Most of the things I heard from the sessions are really good tools to apply in our classes, I also heard new ways to work on different skills, example in Diana´s session that was reading and writing made me feel like why I haven´t seen things that way?
So, this course is causing me think and to question myself a lot in what I´m doing as a guide,
I begin to think again and I realized is a long way never ends but that´s wonderful.
Another session worthy to me so much was george´s because he came with many practical activities to do with the students and they love it, I used some of them and for sure they worked a lot. Now in this session, CALL, I am like digesting everything, (too much to learn), to make a real change in my typical way to do my classes, right now I have changed the way I see learning and I´ll do the possible to do my classes the best I can. Thanks a lot

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

all the good activities are those ones that works according with the differents skills´ abilities, example I plann to my Ss a speaking activity called conversation club, and I have many different ones depending on the skill, then, the idea is to work directly on activities in which Ss are going to develop their language and also show a progress through different contexts during this acquisition process.
next I´ll name different class activities that I usually use with my kids

• movie time (I apply all the language skills here, and you don´t have to watch all the movie, instead just a little piece and then give them some questions related with the movie´s context. they love it!)
• show and tell (speaking, reading, writing. They have to look for something important for them, bring it to the class and then talk about it)
• song club ( listening, reading. They must fill in the blanks, organize sentences in order write the hole paragraph, etc.. by listening)
• reading time (this is to improve their reading comprehension which is very important fot them)
• role play ( they have to create a story or dialogue and then perform)
• and many more, the list is too long but those are important ones.

it is obvious that languages situation is going to make a big change in our country, now thats very good for us ´cause we´ve already are bilingual. but, then I´m just thinking how is it gonna be after? not as good as before, thought we can´t stop now, so just continue learning different things, maybe different languages; that´s my conclusion, other wise we´re gonna be behind all of that movement.