Natalie's presentation.

Questions:

• What would you do with a student that is unwilling to learn?
• What kind of strategies would you use to help them?
• What do you think about Tolstoy's idea of education? Do you agree?
• How could you apply this in the English class?

Andres and Fernada's presentation!

I really enjoyed Fernanda and Andres’ presentation because it was about sexism, which is in fact a controversial topic. They started showing us the famous movie Mona Lisa’s smile, then they started talking about what sexism is (meaning and some examples about it).
Fernanda and Andres explained us how this factor is not just related with house chores (like babysitting, cleaning, etc), but it is also about professions and salary, the differences between men and women remuneration is huge, we (women) receive less money than a man for the same job (XP).
They gave us a lot of information in where they showed us how women’s role had changed through years, and they gave us some examples about it, such as, the first woman president or the date when women started to vote.
Finally they talked about how we as future teachers could changed this because they feel that sexism is still present in the classroom (school). They gave us some recommendation about it.
We asked them some questions about it, and their answers were really appropriated.
Like I said before I really liked their presentation!!

That is all for today!

Kiss and Hugs

Anita.

my own creation !!! Xp

Dreamers::
I wandered around a magic world
Noticing all the beautiful and shining stars
Floating on the blue space
Like the moon in the blue night
Then i thought how blissful dreamers are
To be able to reach this magic world every night.

::Cinderella::
She walked into the sprightly room
Looking for a mysterious attractive man
Hoping he would look at her face
Like Cinderella's prince charming fairy tale
She felt her heart fluttering in delight
When she found her handsome knight

that is all for today!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!

kiss and hugs

lanilla

SUCCESS is not one way street

Success
I totally agree with Mr Richard St. John’s perspective, He showed us in the video about "success". Also he shares with us his experience and how important is to do not stop trying things, i mean if you get what you want you must to do not stop, because how he said success is a continuous journey.
One of the major problem of our society,is that we relate or link the word success with money, when this is not true!.
There are a lot of people who are not doing the things they like, and they are just trying to get more money. This is what happen in our schools (Chilean education), teacher are not happy with their job, and consequently the students either.
An English teacher or just a teacher have to remember why he/she chooses this career and recall every day which are his/her aims, goals and expectations.
I think the key to be a successful person is to add passion, love and make your best effort.
try with all your heart to be the best.
remember "HARD WORK PAY OFF!!"

video: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_st_john_success_is_a_continuous_journey.html

kiss and hugs

lanistica

Personal success

Hello everybody!

mm... well first of all, I think everything that you want (so badly) and you work really hard to make it real, finally comes true, it is called success and that mean happiness

all we know that being a successful person gave you an enormous sense of achievement and happiness.

I think that one of my successful moments was when i finished my first work experience, because at the beginning my ELAB went really bad, my mentor was sick,then she was operated and left the school for a long time and i had to changed of mentor and level, but all this turned out pretty well in the end, my new mentor and student were excellent.

The kids were so cute and affectionate with me and my mentor gave me all her support and confidence.

She was really grateful about what i did for her, then i realized that all my hard work pay off (i was doing (like 80) word cards about all the reading comprehension units), and i could achieve miss Carola’s and my own aims.
i think all this experience helped me to develop my personality as a teacher and also it is a great step to further my career, because now i feel more comfortable and prepared to carry out a class successfully.
what do you think about it?

well that is all for today.

kiss and hugs

lanistica