Unit CLIC: Human Resources Selection

Here it is my didactic unit CLIL: Human Resources Selection

Plurilingualism

This is the Power Point about the second unit...

 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107191513/PLURILINGUALISM.pptx

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Today I'm going to share an article about higher order thinking skills. This article shows the importance of higher order thinking skills. The higher order thinking skills can be employed to solve problems and make decisions in everyday life and when mental processes are needed to benefit from instruction, including, comparing, evaluating, justifying and making inferences. The thought processes that are needed to solve problems and make decisions in everyday life is assessing in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). And the mental processes needed to benefit from instruction are assessed in test of general academic abilities (these tests aim to measure how well students reason)

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Cooperative learning

Today, the difference between learning and acquiring has been explained. Two years ago, I did a cooperative learning course and I started to implementing this methodology in my classes. In my opinion, cooperative learning helps the students acquiring the content of the subject and some actitudes (as responsability and sensibility)without been consciousness. I share with you the web of the Cooperative Learning Institute. Enjoy it!

The Economy for the Common Good (ECG)

Christian Felber with The Economy for the Common Good presents a different way of understanding the economy. Nowadays, the benefits of an enterprise are calculated in a monetary value, but this is very unfair. Usually, the most profitable enterprises are not the most profitable for society, because they contaminate, or they don't accomplish the Human Rights... This theory has reminded me about HOT (Higher Order Thinking), because doesn't involve repeting the same economic theories. The ECG anlyses the facts, in order to seek new solutions to new problems...

¿Te atreves a soñar?

I'm going to share a video. The name is "¿te atreves a soñar?. This video inspires me to learn more and more and I usually like to show it to my students, but it's perfect for teachers too. This video has remembed me the new Bloom's taxonomy, because talks about doing confortable things (in my case about confortable ways of teaching)or trying to improve every day (THINKING). What do you prefer?

How were my best teachers

I work in a Vocational Training school and I love my job! Nowadays I'm doing a course to teach my subjects in English and the teacher asked us about the person how inspired our vocation. This is my essay to explain it...

I don't really remember to much about my teachers... the majority just wanted the units were memorised and repeated in the same way as they taught me them. They used to explain during the class and at the end of the unit we had an exam, just to repeat the same things...I did it as well as possible... but I don't like that methodology.

Thanks to my mother, brothers and sister, I was in a scout group for a lot of years and it was there where I started to love Education. It is no-formal education, but its methodology is a good example for schools. The scouting method is based in some pillars: small groups, learning through accion, self-responsability, self-assessment...

At the end, there are a lot of persons who inspired me to love education work... Sir Baden Powell for creating the scout movement, my educators in the group and my scoutmates. I want to give a special mention to my educators, because their work was as a volunteers and a scout group requires a lot of time! They prepared activities to educated, but when I was a child I thought we were just playing, not learning.

While I was studying to become a lawyer, I worked as a educator in summer camps and jobs like that. I thought it was just some jobs to pay my University. But at the end, when I finished my degree, I started looking for a job as a teacher.

Working as a teacher I discovered the cooperative learning (very similar to scout method) and I have to be grateful to my teacher in that course. She taught me the essential elements and I started to change my way of doing my lessons. I always try to improve in my job, in my way of working.

Summer courses...

I think this is an habit... summer and courses... Yes, I'm doing a course again and I have started this one before closing the course with my students... And yes, I have to do a blog!