Documentation of Practicum Seminar

 

  1 JULY 12-

ESCUELA DE EDUCACIÓN Y PEDAGOGÍA

FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN

ENGLISH PRACTICUM

July 19, 2014

 

 

 

 Classroom observation # 1

 

Student Observation #1 - Seeing Through the Eyes of a Child 

 

Your name: _Andres Felipe Cano    Date of Observation: 19/08/2014

 

Grade level/ Age of children:_1°  : 7 years’     Time    of Observation:_20 minutes

 

School: Colegio San Juan Eudes “sede pradito”

 

Select one student in a classroom to watch for at least 20 minutes and focus on his actions and interactions.  Elaborate on your answers.

 

How many times did the child laugh?

Student constantly laughs, is cheerful, fun, talks to his teammates, playing in the classroom.

How many times was s/he talking but no one heard or was listening?

Some comrades sometimes ignore it and do not talk to him that are doing their homework.

Was s/he ever misunderstood by anyone?

The child always did understand and that has a fluid language, expressed clearly and vocabulary is easy.

 

Did s/he seem upset or unhappy?  Explain.  

The child who smiles and seems happy with their peers, enjoy activities and play in the classroom, his face expresses joy and motivation.

 

What words was s/he using in his/her interactions with others that surprised or interested you?

The student use words like friend, play, study, rest, refreshment, joy, master.

Summarize what you learned about the child and how you focused on his/her world.

 This child learned the joy and motivation are part of the learning process, love, fantasy, creativity are part of the world of children, his greatest wish is to play and share with others, learned from their ability to imagine and dream and in this search for happiness forms on occasion indiscipline and evidence as children on some occasions not control his joy and lack of affection and attention is reflected in the school, learning and their relationship with others.

 

Week 3- July 26 

Know your students

Part 1:

1.   What differences or similarities do find with teachers in your school?

 

School teacher’s today care about their students, as in the video are observers know their students and discover easily achieved when a student presents some difficulty.

 

The difference between the video masters and teachers today is that today is not so concerned about personal presentation; teachers focus their attention on teaching and student learning.

 

2.   What strategies do you use to know your student? Are they similar to the ones the teacher in the video uses?

 

 

 

as a teacher for my students whenever I'm watching their games, relationships with peers, in dealing with others, I am interested in their activities and dialogue with them a lot, I approached them to share different spaces not the classroom as well as at rest or in carrying out other activities that are a little more free in which students have more confidence and security have.

 

my strategies are similar to those of the master of the video as I am interested to know the context of the students, the observation is a key to identify changes and problematic in children factor and it is also very important to be in contact with parents family to know the context in which life develops student

 

 

 

3.   How do keep information about your student?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2

Who are the children you are teaching?

My students are children who are between 6 and 7 years old, are very happy, enjoy playing with an overwhelming energy, are creative, intelligent, with strong capabilities for imagine, dream and create. They are loving, humble, caring and very sharing.

                                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are cheerful, outgoing, like to sing, dance and play

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLASS

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW MORE

HOW I’M GOING TO FIND OUT

WHEN

 

 Need to know how they relate to their peers, their level of listening and attention, your ability to follow instructions, your disposition for activities, and respect for teamwork, commitment and interest in learning with students.

 Watching my students, talking with them about their interests, tastes and motivations, doing activities that allow me to learn a little about them.

 when we're in class, when we do different activities where students share with spaces in the classroom and elsewhere in the institution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

WHY Do These KIDS LOVE SCHOOL?

 

In the video you can identify various forms of education at present the most important task of teachers is to teach students to autonomous, independent learners, who are interested in knowledge, who are motivated to discover and construct knowledge become that awaken wonder and curiosity is what allows us to go beyond, which allows us to reflect knowledge, this is achieved through flexible teaching strategies and appropriate to the context and the educational level of students.

  in the video we could watch as taught through the concrete, and meaningful learning is present in the school and how it transforms the training of students, through the playful, play, active participation, work team knowledge is constructed and becomes more enjoyable and enriching teaching

video motivates us and invites us to transform education into an extraordinary experience motivates us to break with the traditional apprenticeship system; true transformation lies in the preparation for life, which includes the development of intellectual, social and emotional skills, this is a basic principle when you want to transform and innovate in education, to carry out this principle has been to work in the potential of each student: identify their capacities, highlight those actions and activities you can do better, and thus exploit its strengths. Go to the extraordinary in education encompasses several aspects, I will mention four of vital importance and are based on a transformational and innovative school management and this is what is missing in schools today we have become in players knowledge which is not you make changes, repeat and repeat and rarely build or create something new, teaching is becoming somewhat monotonous, boring, uninteresting and pointless.

 

Relationships of teachers and students are now sharing knowledge I give you and you give me respect, listening and attention, as teachers can not lose feeling the human side, educating for life, teach values ​​and we can not forget that our first function is to guide the younger generation to build a better world.

WEEK  4

Video Segment #1

 

Description (during viewing)

 

Gather the following information from this video segment:

 

1. Explain how the class is organized to work on the different activities.

Class is organized through clear instructions, recognizing the needs of students, their abilities and skills, is organized through motivation, starts with an introduction, the participation of students, the focus, asiganacion of tasks that can be individual or team.

2. List the four activities that students did with the song.

 

dramatization, pronunciation, make drawings or through drawings represent the song, write a story

 

 

Reflection (after viewing this segment)

 

1. List the skills students had to use to complete the activity. (Notice that not all of the skills are language skills.)

 

habilidade listening, attention, the ability to create and imagine, the ability to sing, dance, expose, teamwork

 

2. What learning strategies do you think the teacher suggested to her students? Did she tell the students what to do and how to do it?

 

teacher I offer different options to students, I provide them with ideas and reason to develop the more they liked it or for which they had better skills, I use estratgia the game, playful, active particiapcion, meaningful learning.

3. What procedures did the students use to manage their own learning?

 

interact with peers, explain activities including participating in the carrying out of the activity, investigate, consult, listen to the ideas of other classmates or workgroup

 

Video Segment #2

 

Description (during viewing)

 

What are some of the ways learning centers can meet the needs of students with different abilities and proficiencies?

 

1.  teamwork 
 
2. dialogue and listening 
 
3.escritura and reading 
 
4. music, dramatizations 
 
5. access to different materials, tasks or activities
 

 

 

What are some of the techniques the teacher uses to make students responsible for their own learning? What kinds of instructions do you think the teacher needed to give?

 

 

techniques to ensure that students are responsible for their own apendizaje should be motivation, creativity to present activities to estudaintes variety in them, the possibility of putting into practice the knowledge and share it with their classmates, explore the artistic, playful and creative skills of the students. to accomplish this, the teacher should give a clear, understandable to the student, who participates and invite appropriate their learning, the teacher must be a dynamic and transformative constant instruction.

 

 

What kinds of things posted in the self-study room would be motivating for students?

 

 

for serious students teenr very motivating in his living room class pictures, drawings, posters, lectures, a space to create,

 

 

 

This segment showed a room dedicated to self-access materials, and then a corner of the room, and even a wheeled cart with self-access materials. In addition, students used the outside world in the project to study and count insects. Which of these types of self-access situations might be appropriate in your own school setting?

 

 

 

In my school setting as a teacher we could diferenetes PLS the situations presented in the video and that teaching must be accompanied by spaces where students learn from their surroundings, nature, observe the environment and to experiment with and learn of the location and the school is very serious business relevance, is also necessary for students disfruen game of interacting with peers, sharing and using difrerentes teaching materials that are helpful for the formation of children and girls.

 

Week 5- August 9

 

 

Autonomous work-

Students complete the tasks proposed topic 1

Week 6- August 16

 

 

Tutoring

TOPIC 2: BELIEFS ABOUT ENGLISH TEACHING

WEEK 7 AUGUST 23

Week 8- August 31

AUTONOMOUS

 

READ SESSION 7 FOR ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Week 9- September 6

TOPIC 3 LESSON PLANNING AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

WEEK 10- SEPTEMBER 13