July 24th

In this class, we presented our first teaching activity. It was a very interesting class because we had to take the role of teachers and carried out a lesson plan.

In our case we chose to work with the target content number 10: Senior citizens and minority groups for 11 graders. We focused on listening, so we presented different activities for our students (In this case, our classmates) to achieve these objectives: 

Identifying main ideas

 Drawing conclusions

To reach that goal, we created a prezi presentation and asked our students to follow our instructions. Here is the link to the presentation mentioned before. http://prezi.com/o3blssnelxhx/watch-and-listen-to-this-video/

Then, it was our classmates turn to present their teaching activity. They decided to work with the target content: Occupations for 8 graders. Here is a summary of their presentation.

Name of the presenter: Maria, Angelica and Allan

For the Warm up, they planned a game about occupations. The activity was very funny, but I think it might be difficult for students to follow the steps and get to the right website: http://www.mes-games.com/

The next activity included oral questions about occupations and famous people. Then we listened to a song by Shania Twain: “She is not just a pretty face.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFe5Ac01eMc

As a post activity we wrote some sentences about occupations and our relatives.

What I personally did not like about this presentation is that the group could have used more technological tools to avoid the use of common worksheets. But besides that, the presentation was very creative and interesting.