WHICH TRAINING COURSES WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ACCESS TO AS A TEACHER? WHY? WHICH IS, IN YOUR OPINION, THE BEST WAY TO SHARE GOOD PRACTICE AMONGST TEACHING PROFESSIONALS? WHY?

Teachers, like any other professional, need to improve every day of their working lives to know and apply the advances in Education. We work for our students, because they are the ones who are going to rule the future and it is our responsibility to give them the best possible education.

My objective is to do all those courses that can improve my own life in the classrooms as a teacher of Childhood Education.

Therefore, we have to carry on studying and improving our knowledge. We can do it by learning new languages, knowing the possibilities offered by the technology and comparing how the teachers around the world prepare their classes.

Today, new technologies are very strong and they have become in something natural in our lives. This has brought big changes in the way we relate between us ... So that’s why I think it’s interesting to add some courses about the new technologies as it’s essential to know the great chance the Internet gives us if we use it in a good use. Devices like computers, phones, tablets ... are very attractive to students, and if the teacher knows how to use them, they will be a very useful tool to catch the students’ attention.

Currently, the Internet can be the best way to share the good practices between the teaching professionals. In addition, you can use it to share lesson plans, ideas to encourage the students, and some other innovations. Increasingly, the teachers are those who have a personal blog to tell their own experiences, share ideas and a huge quantity of materials.

If you were not limited by the demands of the national/regional curriculum, what would you say is the most important thing you would teach your students about your subject (in a CLIL context)? How would you assess their learning?

As a teacher of childhood school, I think that if the curriculum wouldn't exist, you could teach many things with the same importance because teaching is much more than give a series of guidelines and knowledge.

A resource that could be used in childhood school could be the game as a teaching technique in the teaching and learning of English in a CLIL context, because when you're using it, you'll talk about issues such as motivation: which encourages the use of gaming in the process of learning English. Curiosity: which is such use and appreciation of the game as a way to reach a meaningful learning.

 

Currently there are many teachers who do their work in a monotone way, and holding on to what they already know or like. When we work with children, we must be continuously innovative, go further and use our imagination and creativity to teach the children more significantly using also the fun.

A teacher must teach children paying attention to the educational process and improving it creatively and efficiently.

Today there are many ways and resources we can use, both ICT as much more diverse materials, and it's a shame that many professionals don't take these advantages to teach their students with a new way, and taking a risk to the change. As teachers, we are required to cover the needs of our students, and among them we have the need for experimentation.

From my point of view, is with the experiencing as most children learn and that's why I consider that innovation is essential in teaching, and even more in the infant stage.

As for the evaluation say that is part of the educational process, as it is interrelated with all elements of it, but for methodological reasons is presented as the last element of the process. This point has a feedback function, as the results come, we think again the objectives or any other element of the educational process. That is why I would assess the learning through an initial, continuous and final assessment.

Finally, the assessment must value not only the teaching / learning but also teaching practice, the student and the school.

WHAT WOULD BE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING THE ELP WITH YOUR GROUPS?

The portfolio is based on the Common European Framework of Reference: Learning, teaching and evaluation, promoted by the Council of Europe, and is intended to qualitatively improve the use and learning of the languages and to highlight the participation of the learner in the study of languages. I.e, help us learning more and better any language and help us to understand and appreciate the linguistic and cultural diversity we have in Europe.

Among other things the ELP helps us to know in which level of use or learning of a language the student is, fix learning objectives and become aware of the progress made, know of the individual way of learning and how it can be improved and understand better and respect different linguistic and cultural both individual and group.

 In using the ELP we can find different advantages and disadvantages. As a future teacher, from my point of view I can mention the following advantages:

- Promotes the development of strategies for discussion, interaction, expression of opinions, organization, problem solving and how to make a decision.

- Create work habits, organization, self-evaluation and assessment of learning.

- Promotes the communicative interaction and exchange of information between the students and the teacher.

- Students develop good learnings and they become more independent.

- Generate scaffolding processes that support the construction of new concepts and knowledge.

 On the other hand, we have the disadvantages:

 - Class time is spent in the “ELP” rather than other activities.

- Not all students work at the same rhythm.

- Students tend to overvalue themselves.

- The exercises are a little bit repetitive.

- The self-assessment method is confusing.

- Is not easy to be at the level itself.

WHICH IS THE BEST LINGUISTIC PROGRAM IN VALENCIA?

Today the learning of foreign languages is a real need in today's society. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) defines the basic skills, and in later working groups of the European Commission, are bounded in 8 basic skills, including the communication competence in a foreign language.

That’s why I think the best teaching program is a multilingual program that will allow all students of Valencia get skills in Valencian, Spanish and English.

The aim of these programs is to reach a good competence in the official languages, as well as an appropriate domain of at least one foreign language.

We see an increasement of schools in our Region that apply a multilingual education program that allows promoting a first touch to the English language since the second cycle of Child Education.

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 "30 TECHNIQUES TO QUIET A NOISY CLASS"

I find this article is very, very helpful. Some of their ideas are amazing and after reading this, I'm sure I'll apply some of them. It's very interesting to see the different techniques you use with different ages. I love the idea of putting classical music when the students enter in the classroom. I'll try it in the first time I'll need to catch the attention of them!!! Apart from the article, I've found some sensational ideas from other teachers when they give their opinion about it.

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Today's update is dedicated to highlight the importance of foreign language in early childhood education. Is essential to work other language in early age because they have greater facility for acquiring languages. That is why we must use the potential with the students because they learn it without realizing because they are very receptive.

It is important to note that more and more early childhood education professionals who are concern concerned to innovate and introduce a second language. I leave you a song that can be useful for teaching body parts to our students.

CHILDREN BORN PURE , NOT POLLUTE ...

-THE CHILDREN SEE, CHILDREN DO ...-

"How come the kids are being so intelligent, most of the adults are stupids?  The result must be... " learning by imitation.

One of the main processes by which we learn is imitation. According to experts we are born not knowing imitate and during the first months , while we learn new behaviors we learn to imitate. As we grow , we continue to refine this ability ; imitate more and better.

With this, it is clear that any behavior ( good and not so good ) sees the child 's parents will be likely to be imitated. Not only parents will be role models for the rest of his family , the circle of closest friends, school, television, ... be a potential source of behavior to imitate. It can be deduced that the behavior of children and in the future, the adult may have had its origin in the imitation of a previously observed behavior.

Adult behavior à The child imitates à Reinforcing behavior by the adult (the more it resembles the adult) à Repeat behavior by the child