June 23 and 24

ASSESSMENT AND ITS IMPORTANCE 

We were so worry about evaluation, but the Assessment was really great.  No matter we don't knew the topic, it was easy to develop.

Realizing the Assesment we could:

• Improve vocabulary
• Define the purpose of the reading
• Create a Pre-reading, While-reading and Post-reading activities.

I was soprised with the results about the evaluation from my classmates and the fake teachers.

Thanks a lot every one...

Session June 22

READING COMPREHENSION

Give a reading to our students must be with an specific purpose.  We need to identify the purpose and have it in mind to prepare the questions for reading comprehension.

Purpose of reading:

• Identify the main idea

• Get specific information

• Identify vocabulary

• Establish comparisons

• Apply prior knowledge 

• Give opinion

To realize the control the reading comprehension, we use questions to be answered by our students.  The most used types of questions are:

• Open Questions: Those kind of questions usualy start with "WH" (What/Why/How/Where/When) expression.  Example: What do you think about ... ?

• Closed Questions: / True/False Questions: Student have a 50% chance of guessing the correct answer,  that's why is important that they explain the reason for their chose. Those kind of question could be anwered with Yes or Not.  Example: Do you think that human kind is killing the planed? Yes___ No____ Why? ___________________.      Adding a Why question, you confirm that your student know the answer and he is not guessing. 

• Multiple Choise Questions: Generally, but not allways it has only one correct answer.  Toefl exam use those kind of questions and all the aswers are correct, but there is just one that fix exacly with the question. 

• Matching Questions: The students must corelated a key word for one colum to some definition from the other colum.

• Labeling Questions: Those kind of questions are good to remembering vocabulary.

I realize that most of the time I don't define clearly the purpose of the readings for my student's.  

I compromise myself work on all the readings that I will going to use next semester.

Sesion June 17

INTRODUTION CLIL COURSE

What is CLIL 

CLIL is a generic umbella term which would encompass any activity in which a foreing language is used as a tool in the learning of a non-language subject in which both language and the subject have a joint curricular rolle.

KEY WORDS

CALP

Cognitive

Academic

Language

Profeciency

Author: Leo Vagosky

scaffolding: advance step by step building bases to do it.

What do we need to do as an important thing in CLIL?

The most important thing in CLIL is PREPARATION (Plan classes, tools, materials, etc)

Session June 19

READING COMPREHENSION

Activity No.2 :   Prepare the reading for my students to make it easier to take.

Author: Blooming Taxonomy

3 Levels of reading comprehension

1 -  Readings On the Line (Academic Name: Literal)

• Understanding: What is the main idea of ...? describe, explain, paraphrase, retell.
• Remembering: Who, What, When, Where?  cite, define, find, list

2 -  Readings Between the Lines (Academic Name:Inferential)

• Analizing: What other ways could ...? categorize, dissect, examine, compare, contrast
• Apply: How would you solve? apply, demonstrate, implement, practice

3 -  Reading Beyon the Lines (Academic Name: Critical)

• Creating: What would it be if ...? create, develop, generate, produce, imagine
• Evaluating: Why do you think that ...? conclude, debate, justify, judge, assess

What can I do to make goes my students from Low Order Thinking Skills to High Order Thinking Skills?.

Reading Techniques

1. Skimming: Fast reading 
2. Scanning: Detailed reading, search specific information

Reading Strategies

1. Predict: Prereading
2. Visualize: Prereading
3. Connect: Prereading - use your pre-knowledge
4. Questions: While-reading
5. Clarify: While-Reading, get deeper
6. Evaluate:  Post-Reading

Today I realize that I'm not really good reader; but, I compromise myself to read english books to improve my skills and apply the techniques lerned today to obtain tools and give betther resources to my students

Session June 18

THE IMPORTANCE OF READING

The process of reading

Pre-Reading

Prepare the reading and identify the porpose of reading

Active-Reading

Is the time during te action of reading occurs

Post-Reading

The control activity is executed.  In these phase the porpose of reading comes true.

The porposes of reading

• Increase vocabulary
• Identify the main idea
• Summarize

I plan to use the process of reading for all the texts (articles) that I'll prepare for my Strategic Decision Making students next semester.