BLOG ENTRY 3 - TRAINING COURSES

Nowadays, in the educational world, teachers have a responsibility with all their pupils. Every day there are conflicts between the children and the teachers need to have the tools to resolve these conflicts in a positive way.

All of us have to mediate and help them to learn the appropriate ways to express their opinions and relate to their friends.

To do it is very important that all the teachers have good training courses about the topic “Resolution of internal conflicts”, where we can obtain new techniques and new knowledge to can help our students to improve.

This type of training should be in a context where the teachers can share points of view and experiences, and work with games, activities and roll-playing to practice these situations.

If it’s possible, I think that the best way is a company long weekend, where teachers can have personal time to get more confident and can work with the most serious problems.

In conclusion, it is very important to work and share with our colleagues our experiences to be better community teachers.

BLOG ENTRY 2 - CLIL CONTEXT

Nowadays, the curriculum is the most important tool for teacher to guide the learning of their pupils, because it shows us the road to get the “total education”. 

But, what happen if we haven’t it? Can we get a good education system?

In my opinion, no. I think that we need a reference to do a similar work in all the schools but, if we haven’t it, I would try that my pupils have so much real experiences that they can in the sports and health word.

I would teach Physical Education using like a axis of subjects the different sport world evens of this year, and connecting it whit all the subjects.

For example: If this year will be an Olympic Games , we try to work the sports of it, but we try to know the traditions, history, culture and language of the host country. In this work, we have to get that the focus of the learning and the assessment, using self-assessment or assessment in pairs, groups.

BLOG ENTRY 1 - ELP

ELP (European Language Portfolio) has three important components: a language passport, a language biography and a dossier to work the language skills (listening, speaking, writing and reading).

In my opinion and taking into account my personal teaching experience, the ELP could be positive or negative for my students. Using the ELP with my group has some points positives. For example:

• Is very motivational because promote linguistic and cultural experiences out of classroom.
• My students live a lot of experiences about their learning process looking for information, Knowing traditions, cultures and some ways to think different of their.
• We work with them their capacity to self-assessment, which is one of the best positive points.

In the other hand, it`s possible that all this advantages don´t be for all the students and, who have difficulties whit this system, haven´t a good learning experience or don´t use the self-assessment with responsibility.

I conclusion,  the best advantage of ELP is that they can increase their learning process, because gives value to formal and non-formal learning in to the school and out of it. So I think that is a good tool to work with them.