LESSON 4: TECHNICAL APPLICATION

LESSON 3:We dessign the technique

LESSON 2:CONTEXTUALIZING

LESSON 1: What about the techniques?

DIDACTIC UNIT "EXCHANGING INFORMATION TECHNIQUES"

WHICH TRAINING COURSES WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ACCESS TO AS A TEACHER?. WHY? WHICH IS, IN YOUR OPINION, THE BEST WAY TO SHARE GOOD PRACTICE AMONGST TEACHING PROFESSIONALS? WHY?

 Longlife learning refers to the way adults keep learning no matter what kind of job they have. We live in a changing society and we need to adapt it. The needs of pupils are different and we have to be able to design an educational  environment so that students could get the skills and tools necessary for their current and future lives.

This way, the courses I think they are more crucial are related to:

-          Languages: the CLIL treatment is very important nowadays. Through this methodology we can reach a real language learning. We live in a global world which makes necessary to learn one or more foreign languages to communicate to everybody, in different countries. To find interesting resources for your subject is a priority. We are starting to teach following this method, so we still are lack of resources. Learning the way of creating new activities and contents is a key point.  Furthermore, I consider it´s necessary to create a network in order to share these resources.

-          Group dynamics: to know how to engage people in a group, what type of dynamics exist, which techniques benefit  the group atmosphere, to improve the relationship among schoolmates and teacher and above all, how  to foster the communication. These type of tools would help to improve my CLIL method.

-          My specific content: community development is a very complex topic which involves many different authors with different visions. There is an urgent need of getting updated as new burning issues are  coming out from new real situations. 

-         New  technologies: every year there is a new program or application that   would be necessary for me. In this regard,  I think it´s necessary to take up an annual technology course.  Internet resources can be very useful to  organize and improve our daily class.

IF YOU WERE NOT LIMITED BY THE DEMANDS OF THE NATIONAL/REGIONAL CURRICULUM, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WOULD TEACH YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT (IN A CLIL CONTEXT). HOW WOULD YOU ASSES THEIR LEARNING?

If I have this hypothetical situation, I think that I would organise more team groups and more experienced activities. I would focus in the process rather than in the content, the final achievement. This way, I would arranged my activities prioritizing one contents over others.

For example, in CLIL context, we have to use four principles in my subject, community development.

CULTURE:

            I would visit different events that it happens in our community: cultural events,  festivities, to know the traditional crafts, to talk about reference people, to be in a dairy activities in associations, socio-cultural centers… I would find interesting  that students could establish interaction among people from other communities. Also, I would be interested in foreign people who speak English to practice one another.

COMMUNICATION:

            As a consequence, the culture content is related to  communication content. They are directly related to. I would recommend to speak to native speakers: teachers, adults teacher, immigrants, other students from other schools or highschool. It would be wonderful to create videos about these experiences and we can explain about them in English.

COGNITION:

            Once we have created the atmosphere and the context to speak and establish relation with the community´s activities, students will learn the theoretical issues in English.   In this way we can make sure that the pupils have learnt the theory , based on their experience.

CONTENT:

            I would have compulsory content on the one hand, because it´s necessary to understand the subject: the community (and their parts) and the social resources. And, on the other hand, I would have optional contents depending on type of activities we would do. I would have time to attend students who are  interested in different topics in my subject. Students would choose what type of contents are more attractive for them