New things to learn

New things to learn.

We all have learnt new things in this course. Through this week, we have focused on one of the most difficult teaching and learning language, oral/aural skills. The articles we have read are new ideas, new techniques and suggestions for the EFL, student`s pronunciation and speaking.

How can we develop aural and oral skill on our students?
To start of we need to focus our teaching on what we want our students to lean, however we need to be selective on the material we use for teaching. Teaching speaking is like a cycle, they need to listen carefully, in order to repeat as they hear, and they need to read in order to have a good lexic, wich will help them with a rich vocabulary to use in every day conversations.

As for foreing accent, they may be accepted in order to enhance students performance.
This new perspective will motivate students to feel free to use the language, breaking the barrier of using it.

We also have discovered many sites and links so we can use and share with students and teachers as well, so everybody can be helped in developing listening and speaking skills, including mine.

Juan Garcia

SECOND WEEK

The Search Engines.


I must confess how I felt when I typed the web page www.noodletools.com. It is amazing to know how technology opens so many doors to everybody, and how huge is the web. I feel more confident when I do my search since 2 weeks ago, if I did not find what I was looking for in one or two of my favorite sites I just gave up. Now I have plenty of them, and each one very interesting, with different tools so I can search, pretty accurate, I have to be very careful with key-word though. My next task would be how to manage effectively the websites and keep them updated. So I need to find the way to choose the best one, so I and other teachers from Nicaragua can start using them.


Writing the Objectives this week was great since I have learnt a lot from all the participants, since they all vary, since our way to do it varies from school to school, I can tell it was challenging for some of us. However I agree with the ABCD, frame, since describes the whole teachin learnig  process and what we expect as teachers at the end of the session, or course, from our students and ourselves. It was also really great to describe the class, since it is a background of each one, so we can move on from that point.


I am going to learn more things in the days to come.


Thanks
Juan Garcia

FIRST THOUGHTS

FIRST THOUGHTS

Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web

I am so happy.Taking  online courses and blogs for educational purposes are new to me. I am so blessed to be part of this great staff of great teachers from different parts of the world, with lot of experiences to share and dedicated teachers in the job of teaching.

Furthermore I can learn how to use the blogs for sharing all the ideas in real-time online learning. It`s a great idea of sharing ongoing discussions on the blog and also learn how valuable to get a constructive feedback from great teachers as each one of us are. I want to learn how to teach online and take full advantage of this great course online, In every daily life situation, in every song and expression I learn in english I try to teach them to my students and think the way they can learn from mistakes and how I learn from my own mistakes and from theirs.

 Therefore this course is what I need to continue teaching, it will be a challenge though but I will not give up, eventhough it is my first time and my first blog. So I will take advantage of every one of these new brilliant ideas you have to share.