WEEK 3

Dear diary,

This third week of class the most interesting things I want to highlight are:

1. How to start a project using a magic box.

This activity consists on letting students guess what is inside of the box. They have to ask us questions and while they are asking them we can answer by just saying yes or no or by showing them little parts of the objects inside the box.

Once students have guessed what is inside, is the time when we should ask them what do they know about it and what would they like to know or to learn about it. If we ask them so, we are including them into the choosing process of the project and then we will know their previous knowledge too.

For example, if inside of the box we had hidden four different dolls creating a family, after guessing what is inside and knowing the student’s previous knowledge we could start elaborating different activities through which we could let our students get to the learning outcomes. 

This following scheme would help us to elaborate a project:

In my opinion, I would definitely use this magic box activity because I think it is a dynamic and fun way to introduce the students to the topic we want them to learn. More over, through this activity I think we will get students attention right at the begining and they will be interested in knowing what is inside of it so they will be participative and comunicative.

2.  Two interesting books.

These following books could give me ideas of how to teach English in English.

The first book is:



Teaching English to children by Christopher Brumfit

 The second book is:

Classroom management by John M. Vitto

I liked that the teacher presented us these books and told us a little bit about them because she is giving us different tools to learn more about, in these cases, class management and how to teach English in English.

3. The video "I just sued the school system":



Once we saw the video twice, we talked about it. What we said is that we all agreed that if we want to make a change we should start putting in practice all this ideal type of methodologies that we think are effective to teach students nowadays and not students from other generations. If the world evolves, the educational system should evolve too.
We should prepare our students for the present real life and not for the real life it was used to be. In addition, we should also make an statement and get the government attention so they could really see what is going on inside the educational system and so they could help us make a change.