September 9th
Rivera –
Huila
Colombus
American School
During this
session, students were asked to join to the Skype account in order to have a
dialogue in real time. The class started at 9 pm; however most of the
participants were ready at 9:30 pm. The instructor welcomed the participants in
the most enthusiastic way. They were really motivated to start the class. Teacher Sergio shared screen with the
participants in order to show them the menu that will help as a tool for the
development of the activity. The objective
of the intervention was to reinforce the vocabulary about food and ordering
food. Teacher Sergio acted out as a
waiter, the rest of the participants were in charge of ordering food. One difficulty
that we face was the teachers’ participation, they did not take turns to speak,
and was not easy to understand what they were saying. However after a few minutes, the instructor decided
to interrupt the activity in order to assign turns for each one.
The second
part of the activity was to divide the group into pairs, one would take the
role of the waiter and the other would be the client. It was interesting to see
how fluent the activity was, in other words, participants were able to start a
dialogue, to introduce new chunks of language, to ask for help when there was a
misunderstanding or even to correct the peer when something went wrong. There were some technological problems at the
end of the session. Some of the
participants when the session finished started talking about their progress in
just two weeks, an also the importance of this kind of programs at school.
From my
point of view, we are in the right way, teachers are motivated, and the school
is supporting us with the required material. However it have been difficult for
some teachers to be constant in this progress due to the amount of duties they
have at school. We are planning for next sessions to give a more personalized
feedback in order to help those teachers who have not assisted to all the
classes to overcome difficulties and to clarify doubts.
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ResponderEliminarHello dear Natalia,
ResponderEliminarThis is great; Sergio and you are helping untrained teachers to improve their teaching skills. Now you are teaching to teachers and they might learn a lot from you both. What about you learning from them? does it happen?
Of course Sergio, it is incredible how we can learn form our participants, they are all he time asking for new activities, they also use different kinds of strategies to learn english that is worderful. Thanks for commenting my post
ResponderEliminarOf course Sergio, it is incredible how we can learn form our participants, they are all he time asking for new activities, they also use different kinds of strategies to learn english that is worderful. Thanks for commenting my post
ResponderEliminarCutie, I very happy of being working in this project by your side. Your help and commitment to the pedagogical intervention has been incredible. I feel backed up everyday and I really enjoy how open-minded you are when a new ideas comes up and we both try to structure it. By the way, I just love the way you speak about the session. :)
ResponderEliminarHey Natalia
ResponderEliminarYou really know how to work as a team! It is nice to see that when you saw something was going wrong you immediately took action and redirected the activity. Also, it is great that you are using such a powerful tool to help yourself to develop your interventions.
And last but not the least, congrats for the improvement that your students have been able to see by themselves.
Sergio García