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TEACHERS AS LEADERS

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In a public school in Vancouver, a program to encourage the building of leadership capacity in teachers.  In this video you can have advices about teacher leadership's role in digital transformation.  It has very interesting ideas and they can be very useful for us. 

CURSO ONLINE "TEACHING YOUR SUBJECT IN ENGLISH" - HOW TO BEGIN A LESSON

This video is from www.futurelearn.com, the course "TEACHING YOUR SUBJECT IN ENGLISH". You can get quite useful ideas from it.  Second activity:  Ways to start a lesson Sharing learning objectives Reviewing previous learning Elicting knowledge and ideas. Reasons for preparing learners for learning Helps learners to focus on what they are doing in the lesson. Helps them to focus on English Helps the teacher to focus Activates learners' prior knowledge Helps the teacher to find out what learners know.  Tips for using bloggin tools Tumblr  is free and very stratightforward to use, and also contains some useful social features.  WordPress is another popular free tool. Blogger is easy to use to create a blog if you have a Google acoount.  Temporary text hosting: Pastie or NoteHub (best for learners on a mobile device).  To share documents: Alternative free services include ==>  Google + (make sure your photo is public) D

CURSO ONLINE "TEACHING YOUR SUBJECT IN ENGLISH"

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Varios profesores de nuestro centro, dentro de nuestros objetivos del Plan de Desarrollo Europeo del centro y de nuestro proyecto Erasmus+ KA101 "EUROTORRENTE 2.0", han comenzado un curso online impartido en la Universidad de Cambridge, con el título "Teaching your subject in English". https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/cambridge-teach-in-english/1/register En este blog incluiremos parte del material que incluye el curso, así como los documentos que se incluyan o las herramientas TIC que recomienden. Si fuera posible, añadiríamos también algún vídeo sobre los contenidos del curso. 

SOME ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES FROM MALTA

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We experienced a really nice time in Malta, attending challenging lessons in the Executive Training Institute (ETI) in Saint Julians (Malta) this May. As a summary I post some of them that I consider more attractive and enjoyable for you. We were introduced into the " Methods " page with tons of resources for teachers. Here you can extract some new methodologies to put in practice in your classes. Check them out!!! One of the most interesting new activities we practiced in several of our classes in Malta was the " Running Dictation " where students have to work together as a team in order to transcribe a text correctly. Memorization, Competitiveness, Accuracy, Understanding, Writing, Speaking, and more characteristics are needed to win the activity. Finally our team, won the battle....

LIST OF SELECTED TEACHERS

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List of selected teachers to attend the courses and the job shadowing periods: LIST

ETWINNING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

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Our friends Alessandra and Ania from Italy and Poland (we met in Exeter last August) have just finished an eTwinning Project ( "Creative Stories with Traditional Characters")  with their students. It's is a wonderful tale. You can enjoy "The Moon Adventures": https://www.storyjumper.com/book/showframe/22791578/The-Moon-Adventures#

TEACHERS' SELECTION - KA101-2016

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Bases to select teachers to attend the courses in the new Erasmus+ project. BASES