Week 14

INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM

Kenia Verónica Menjivar Palencia

Articles: “10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participle in Classroom Discussions”

                 Increase Student’s Interaction with “Think Pairs “and “Circle Chats”

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The articles for this week give us information about interaction in class, the first article 10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participle in Classroom Discussions, mentioned the benefits of having students participate in class, I think it is important to have students interact in class and not that the teacher talks all the time, making students answering and making questions in class helps teachers to recognize if students understood the topic or not, if the students answered incorrectly teacher can recognize easily and if the answered correctly as well. On the other hand, it is important that students feel free to express their point of view too, because in this way they feel more important because their opinion matters and the teachers is asking for that also the rest of the class can learn from their classmate’s opinion too.

There are many advantages of having an interactive class in this is a good technique that teachers can apply for the better understanding of the class.

Also, the second article Increase Student’s Interaction with “Think Pairs “and “Circle Chats” was very interesting too, something that caught my attention on this article was the circle chat technique, because make students share their opinion with their classmates and brings the opportunity to listen to deafferents thoughts increasing their knowledge of the topic by listen to the different classmate’s opinions.

To conclude my reflection about the articles I want to remark that teacher should let students participate in class and not be the only one speaking this will make feel students that they opinion matters and will encourage students feel free to express themselves which will promote the better understanding of the topic 

Week 11

LEARNING IN A PROJECT-BASED WORK

Kenia Verónica Menjivar Palencia

Articles: “Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classroom”

               “Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning”

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The articles that read for this week I think are very interesting because they are relative to project works, the first article “Maximizing the benefits of project work in foreign language classroom” shows some important aspects about the work project, having students working in a project learning provides more language and students can develop their critically think working in extend periods of time to gather information.

Something that caught my attention about the article was the way the article presents the ideas for the project, because the article presents ideas for written reports, posters, videos, podcast, multimedia presentation and role plays.

The second article presented very important information as well, because continue talking about project based learning what very good project should have and what we need to know about a based project to achieve the goal with the activities for student’s language learning.

Something that I want to remember from this article is that as teachers we need to consider that the activities designed for this project gives the opportunity to students to show their authenticated style and ideas in which they can express themselves by designing their own product and managing their time at the time of presented the product.