Monday 3rd, April
Room 3. C1 with Klara Seheult. Class management: her class furniture was organised as a horseshoe, the same I observed in Ramón's classroom (15). They always start the day with several monologues on a specific topic provided by the teacher a couple of days before, and prepared by ss. in advance at home. Then, they perform it in front of their fellows. At advanced level, ss. use different textbooks from different publishing houses. Remember that the whole school employed Oxford's New English File, while C1 is using Speak Out Advanced (Pearson), and C2 is following Keynote Proficient (CENGAGE Learning).
Peer-review. My master's mate, Begoña Lavale was teaching today. Her challenge was introducing unit 4 to ss. which deals with justice and crimes. First, she used two questions form the text book (p. 44) as a warming-up that they had to debate in pairs. Second, she sent homework (reading and questions). Finally, she used a TED Talks video in order to develop her lesson plan. The video was played twice and ss. were given a worksheet containing 5 listening comprehension activities (collocations, gaps, questions, definitions, proposed composition). All together they went through the worksheet.
After she had finished her teaching, Klara continued as a class guide with some exercises about future tenses they had begun last week. Their finishing routing is being rearranged in small groups and answer the questions projected on the screen (Klara prepares a PPT presentation and uploades it to Edmodo) about the series they are watching: "The Night Manager".
At the very end of the session, ss. left and Klara and I gave some positive feedback to Begoña and discussed about C1 level advantages and disavantages.
PC ROOM & Doubts. Asking Inés for the PGA document (Programación General Anual) so to include information about it in my Practicum II. Of course, she told me I was not able to keep a copy but only having a look at it meanwhile I was at school. Also today, I was talking to Klara and María Tarí (Didactic Coordinator) at the English Department because I needed to clarify their roles within the dept.
Tuesday 4th, April
Wednesday 5th, April
Thursday 6th, April
I was working at the PC ROOM upstairs.
Peer-review. Room 10. I attended a B2.2 level group tutored by Inés, in which my masters colleague Rocío Soriano was teaching. Her teaching unit was being developed during this week and she knew about the students before because she had been observing Inés' teaching for several weeks so far.
Rocío started the session with a fashionable game, Kahoot! And the six questions ss. were requiered to answer dealt with a grammar point she had previoously explained on Monday: gerunds and infinitives. After this warming-up, ss. were arranged in pairs in order to prepare a four-minutes monologue and perform it. When they finished, they had to give some feedback to their couples, at the same time that Inés, Rocío, and myself were walking around to monitor their speaking and pronunciation errors. To conclude, ss. worked the textbook (pages 76 & 77): listenings about health related to infographies, similes (animals), and phonetics /ə /.
Afterwards, Inés gave some feedback to Rocío. I also had a brief meeting with my tutor, Roge, and I went to the PC ROOM so to continue updating the blog, sharing interesting articles on my professional Twitter account and also, writing on my Practicum II (internship report).
I have been working on didactic resources, surfing the EOI website, and so on during the whole morning.
Friday 7th, April
Today was the last day at EOI in Elx, and we had a special staff meeting called in Spanish CLAUSTRO, which joined the whole school, that is to say all the teachers from every single language department. It was held at the school library, where I could discover some time ago a huge variety of books.
Nowadays, there are six languages taught at this school, therefore six different departments: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, and Valencian. The current management team is shaped by six members, and the headmaster (Ramón Antón) was the responsible for setting the agenda and guiding the meeting.
- Approval of the previous minutes /Aprobación del acta anterior
- Facilities: Damages and Investments /Daños y arreglos de infraestructuras
- Collaboration Agreement with UMH /Colaboración Practicum UMH (Universidad Miguel Hernández)
- Plan Integral de Aprendizaje de Lenguas para el Profesorado
- PGA Monitoring and Assessment /Valoración del seguimiento de la PGA (Programación General Anual)
- Motions and queries /Ruegos, preguntas, propuestas, etc.
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