Once upon a time

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/kids-homework This article shows us some links to improve our pupil´s skills: Learning, listening and writing. I agree that doing homework helps children on their way to becoming independent learners but sometimes that task is really hurt for them because they need a lot of time in their homework. For that reason, I believe that TIC´s help us to teach some subject. In this case, the article talks about the importance to use the web side to do their English homework. I learnt a lot with this reading because I show in it that with a good material is possible do homework at home.

This video talk about the pygmalion effect. Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and school principal Lenore Jacobson did a remarkable study in which they told school teachers Elementary school teachers that on the basis of some psychological test some of their students were designated as late bloomer even though they hadn´t shown any academic success they are expected to bloom. Finally, they were transformed by the teacher’s positive expectations. In this video, the protagonist analysed the Pygmalion effect: positive expectations can change a person´s perception of a situation. The work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968), among others, shows that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. Rosenthal and Jacobson originally described the phenomenon as the Pygmalion Effect. “ When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the e...

In this video, Carol Read told us some ideas for using flashcards. Flashcards are an incredibly practical and useful resource for teaching vocabulary. Activity 1: very fast. The teacher shows them the flashcard very fast children identify what´s on the flashcard Activity 2: Slowlyslowly. Cover the flashcard that you´re going to use and gradually reveal the picture and children identify what´s on the flashcard Activity 3: What´s missing?. Stick the flashcards on the board get the children to repeat the words out loud. Then the children close their eyes and cover their eyes with their hands, demonstrate this, remove one of the flashcards from the board and hide it behind our back. Then the teacher asks what is missing. Magic eyes, flashcard groups… This activity provides children with multiple opportunities to practice the language they´re learning. Flash cards provide a flexible and enjoyable resource for teaching vocabulary in the primary classroom. It is important...

CAROL READ: THE SECRET OF WORKING WITH KIDS. S (Sensory acuity) E (Emotions) C (Communications) R (Rapport) E (Evaluation) T (Talk) In this video, Carol Read talk covered a range of primary issues and she gave a number of invaluable tips about teaching primary students. She starts her conference with some questions about the difficulties in the education system. The audience answer: 1.The students are talkative and move all time. 2.They demanding new things 3.They have different levels and  also different learning style. 4. The space in the classroom are not enough for 15-24 children. For solves this problem, Carol suggest some criteria with activities. The flash card is a very good way to improve grammar, listening, memory and guess. Also the communication is another important point in this topic, specifically the body language because the 55% of information that the children recibid is with this kind of communication. For her is important the rela...