Blog Formative II

FIRST TERM

Monica Lizeth Castro Prada

About me:

My name is Monica Castro, I am 19 years old, I am from Chiquinquira, and I live alone in Bogotá, I really like animals, I have a dog called "manchitas", I also like to play volleyball.

TEACHER JOURNAL

We learnt about how important is a Journal for teachers and do an activity in groups

ACTIVITIES LEARNING STYLES

    

In this activity we did several topics, such as memorization techniques, social learning, grammar, and our topic, which was inclusive strategies.

CURRICULUM VS SYLLABUS

In this activity we made the comparison between curriculum and syllabus

MY SILLABUS

FINAL TEST

For the exam, we did a micro teaching, our topic was free time and leisure time, we presented in class.

SECOND TERM

REPORT 

In this activity we had to make a report about a topic that we would like to teach according to our practice. This helps us improve our speaking and our learning day after day.

MIND MAP

We made this mind map based on the document "material development in ELT: principles and procedures", through this type of activities you can learn how to improve your materials and give you tips for classes that are more appropriate for students.

REPORT 2: TYPES OF OBJECTIVES

We made a lesson plan-microteaching about the topic we wanted and we presented it in class, my topic was music.

FINAL EXAM

We present the exam through a video giving a class using the lesson plan based on the topic "A special place, our contry, Colombia" to students from the same major but different from our class.

Here we saw the videos of our classmates and the class was very educational.

THIRD TERM

TEACHERS' IDENTITY 

In this activity, we identified the key words and the most important aspects making a poster with all these topics. It was a very interesting experience that allowed us to reflect on the importance of staying authentic as teachers in the classroom.

PRESENTATION CLASS

In this activity, we did a 5-minute class on a topic that we wanted, making the class dynamic, I did it on "My family."

VIDEO

We made a video in pairs where we explained 3 topics, the video was creative, so it was very interesting to do this. These concepts helped us understand the elements that foster a productive and engaging learning environment.

Microteaching class: Final Exam

In this class we designed a warm-up activity for our classmates based on a topic assigned by our teacher. My topic was “Past Simple- Gabriel García Márquez”. I really enjoyed this activity because it was about doing the class in just 8 minutes, trying to be as creative and educationally efficient as possible.