Before Christmas...

I was yesterday at the school. It was my last day before Christmas and it was very interesting.

During this last week they are not celebrating Christmas at all, mainly because of the diversity of origins, religions and cultures that can be found on that school.
Instead of singing Christmas carols and decorating Christmas trees, they do the "Crèdit cooperatiu". It consists on different activities based on the same topic, which for this time was “Les llengües del món” (The languages of the world).
Each year there is a different topic and during three days (Monday to Wednesday) the students work with their tutors and teachers. On Thursday they spend the morning finishing the works and preparing an exposition on each floor. In the afternoon the parents visit the school and they can see students’ work and listen to a concert where the students themselves play different instruments.

Here you have some posters made by the 1st year students and the Babel Towers by 2nd year students.
I spend the morning with them, helping them and visiting all the classes. They all did really nice things!

I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

Teaching unit

It's been so long since I last posted anything in my blog!
Lots of things have happened. I’ve been ill… and I have already finished my “Unitat didàctica”!

After observing the results of the survey I decided to choose some of their favourite songs and build my teaching unit from there.
I thought there should be different songs because the students were already used to work with different songs on each session. So, if I wanted to work consciously with only one song, they might get bored and lose motivation and attention.

I organised the teaching unit as follows:

• Session 1: Work with a small group of three students. They would choose a song and prepare activities for one session.
• Session 2: Umbrella by Rihanna.
• Session 3: Umbrella by Rihanna.
• Session 4: Zombie by The Cranberries.
• Session 5: Stan by Eminem. Worksheet available on http://wizard.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=110645&page=1
• Session 6: Assessment, watching some videos I have recorded during the term. It was the last day of the term.

More details will be given, but for the moment, I just wanted to say that the most important moment for me was the last day. We had finished the lesson and then Núria asked them which mark they would give me as a teacher. The majority of them said: “Excellent!”
That’s my best acknowledgement!

Teacher Anna is ill

Yes, I'm ill. Feeling really bad since Wednesday. I have a temperature, a sore throat and cystitis.
What else could I have? I've been in bed and I couldn't do my "Unitat Didàctica" on Thursday.
why now? why? why? why?