Didactics 2

 Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!! This blog is about September's 7th class, to which I couldn't attend due to a stomachache, I have to say that this diseases have not been playing fair with this past month, cause as of today I'm writting this blog I'm still recovering from a flu. :( Thankfully Josh told me about what this class was about, thankfully Lic Orlando only gave the grades from the first register and the feedback from the activities we had that register. Jessica was really kind to me and actually did sent me pictures of the our activity group grades and told me about the feedback Orlando gave to us.  Apart from this, we also had to make groups for our first classes with students, luckily we got group 5 and the topics we had were vocabulary related to numbers and classroom objects which I do like as I find it interesting for our first class. It might be a challenge but lets see how things turn out. Our first class is going to be on the 28th of Septem...

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!! I hope everyone of you is doing good, for this class I'm covering what we learned on the class of the 31st of August. For this class we learned about PDP, and what is PDP?? This is a type of approach that word by word is Pre, during and post.  For the first stage (Pre), the teacher will have to give some kind of warm up to the topic without actually teaching the topic straight away, that being by asking students questions related to the topic, to check how is their knowledge related to the new topic or even showing a video about the topic in a way that just works as a small introduction. For the second stage (During) , the teacher will have to give instructions to the students to begin an activity in which they will have to use what they have learned on the first stage. The teacher must give clear instructions to the students of what they'll have to do in order to be efficient. If the instructions aren't clear the students may h...

  Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!!  For this post I'm going to cover the first actual classes given by group 1 and 2.  The first group was Diana's, something that I really liked from them was they still could reuse their "teacher shirts" from their last activity. They began the class by giving name tags to each student so it could become easier to remember everyone's name.  This group's topics were the alphabet and some common greetings, but before they started teaching they got into a circle in which everyone had to participate to repeat the previous name that was mentioned, until the last person would say everyone's name.  This group as mentioned before focused on the alphabet and on some greetings, they did put a lot of effort into the pronunciation of each letter as well as giving an example of a word with the letter they showed on their PPT. For the greetings topic they emphasized a lot in the structure and how they could use it on a daily...

 Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog!! In this blog I’m going to be sharing with you what we did on exam’s week, in which we gave our first grammar and vocabulary classes of this semester of Didactics 2.   First group The first class we had was by group 1 which was lead by Diana, out of all of the groups this one was the only that had their own personalized teacher t-shirt. The class they gave was focused on hospital related vocabulary and also some phrases that are used on this context, some of the terms we learned were actually new to me, so got to learn some of the vocabulary.   Here is a picture of the alphabet soup we did! Here is a picture of the group Second Group For the second class it was actually my group’s turn to talk about the third conditional and its structure. Throughout the class we gave and explanation of what a conditional was and the structure that we have to use in the third conditional, apart from having some exercises and practice for t...

 Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog!! Unfortunately this is the last blog of the register, to which I have to say went by really quickly. We are almost in September!! I actually was not able to attend past week's class due to medical reasons, although I asked some of my classmates what was the class the about and I read some of my classmate's blogs too. Lic Orlando talked about the PPP classes, which consist on:  Presentation : In the initial stage, the teacher spends the majority of his time explaining what the topic is going to consist about. During this stage, students will master various concepts. This stage is primarily for teachers and requires ingenuity to effectively guarantee student understanding.   Practice : The interaction between students and teachers is twofold, with students actively practicing and teachers providing important guidance and supervision. There are two practice modes: controlled practice and free practice. The former minimizes the possib...

 Hello there and welcome back to my blog!! From what I’ve read on other classmate’s vlogs I see what they meant when they referred to Mrs. Brendaly’s activity. I was quite confused at first because I don’t remember seeing her around or so until I read that she specifically called some students to help her on some tasks with other students. Now moving on for this week we had the opportunity to receive a talk about our career from Mrs. Regina who is professional on the area of interpreting and also was a student at the university. She shared a lot of important and vital information about being an interpreter, she also gave us some tips on how to start and how to charge when we are new on the market, the same for the translation market and finally she also gave us some experiences she had throughout her career as an interpreter. Here are some recommendations she gave us when charging for our work.  Here are some of the companies she shared with us to get equipment for our inter...

 Hello everyone welcome back to my blog!! In our last class before entering our august vacations we covered more about lesson planning as we did not have class the week before, this was like a continuation of the same topic.  Throughout the whole class we took a deep look into how to "warmup" the lesson before starting, by having a way of activating the mind of our students, then introducing the topic, to then move into a fun activity that can work as a ice breaker so the group gets to distract and have some fun, so finally we get to create a community. We also reviewed some activities that can be done in class, here are some: - Activities to group people: Name tags, shirt colors, age groups and even names were some of things that we thought could be used to ease the grouping of people ( in class I actually came up with the idea of grouping people by their zodiac sign or birth date).  - Activities to measure time:  To measure time, we can simply use an online stopwa...