LITTLE MOON

In this famous video we can reflect on our classes if creativity takes part in our schools or not. It is a very important question specially because we are working with children. So, in my opinion every teacher should have thought it over fully. I show you, my dear reader, that I try every year to improve my classes, my pedagogy and my skills as a teacher. But, Do you know how to start? Well I can help you with the beggining: - Tell other teachers about your intentions and aims, if you show your mind to them may be they collaborate. - Start looking for events or courses where you can keep in touch with people who have the same interests as you. I recommend some on my twitter @PILARtheMOON - Don't give up! Try to mantain yourself positive and share your experiences. Even if you are not right you are improving more than someone who is doing nothing. Let me know about your results. ;-)))

I'm studying this month an on-line course coordinated by Teresa Pozo (CEFIRE) and I would share this interesting video about teaching emotions. John Meyer ‘We can teach emotional knowledge’ (2009) The main ideas are the following: Theory about emotions by John Meyer:    Perceiving emotions   Managing emotions  How emotions can enhance thought   Understanding emotions People can have a high IQ but use it to be nasty. That’s why we.. Separate values and virtues from intelligence. Increasing Intelligence= changing the capacity of carry on abstract reason. (psychologist focus) But can we teach emotional knowledge? He said yes, It will improve our skills? We don’t know yet, but some studies said we are interested in improving our social relations and that’s a wonderful thing. Full video: 

How important is to reflect on our teaching practice? What do I want to change about it? Do I care about my students' interests? Can I use ICT resources at school? This week I took some time to reflect on all this questions which I never did. Sharing my opinion about my job and the teaching practice is important for me. And the idea of following other people with the same interests makes me think that I'm not alone. Well, my list of wishes are: - To introduce more project collaboration methodology in my classes - To coordinate to other departments at school in order to involve them with my own practice - To use much more ICT reources and always explore new ones - To ask my students about their interests and the changes they would make in the english classes In the same line, to analize other E-twinning projects and to see that another world exists is very provocative and proACTIVE. When you are working in a school with no collaboration, no ICT resources and little tim

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Last years I listened about MOOCs but I had never tried one. That's why this month I have decided to start the MOOC about etwinning which consists in an European formation about projects for the educational sector. I hope to have time enough to comunicate my experience through this blog and to share the resources that I will be founding. Secondly, you can check my first notes about this week: - Educalab is a kind of platform in which after you register you could accede to different MOOCs, all related to education.  http://mooc.educalab.es/  It belongs to an open concept of on-line courses which implies collaboration with other profesionals of your sector. - Then, we made an introduction to ourselves, my name is PILARtheMOON and locate our cities in a google maps . After that we started to work with simple messages through social networks such as twitter and facebook . My twitter: @PILARtheMOON   please follow me! My facebook: Pilar de Luna - To create a PORTFOLIO, in this c

Level: 4/5 years Old children Topic: The alphabet As a teacher we can choose different ways of teaching the letters. In this case I Have chosen a song from the web called  phonic song  http://youtu.be/BELlZKpi1Zs Then, after a couple of classes Learning it by heart and repeating it with actions (TPR), I did these handmade worksheets to trace and paint in the following days.  I hope you like it! Enjoy teaching!