Music music!!!

Children love music! We should expose them to catchy songs to help them acquire vocabulary and structures in a funny and memorable way!!! That´s why I leave here a link to an interesting website in which you can find many songs for young children. Hope you enjoy it!

http://www.pattyshuklakidsmusic.com/

I found this interesting site to look for resources and watch vídeos giving advice and examples of different things, one of them has to do with how to approach the teaching of a foreing language. Hope you find it useful!!

You just have to click here

Murally

Hi people here I´m leaving you a tutorial on an interesting tool to create presentations. If you click here you can go to the page and start using this interesting tool! You have to sign up first! Hope you find it useful!!!

A Presentation by David Nunan

I found a very interesting presentation by David Nunan on educating young learners for the 21st century. In this presentation, he talks about the ART of teaching English to learners of another language. This acronym ART stands for awareness, repetition and transformation: making our learners aware of specific vocabulary or language structures; repeting those language items and using the structures and the vocabulary that they´d been acquiring to do other things with the language, to achieve things other than manipulating the language. This is the key concept of TBLT, using language not to manipulate the language itself but to get things done with the language. 

He also states that language is a tool for communicating and a tool for learning. We cannot learn without language. 

I believe it is a very interesting talk all in all! It´s worth watching!!!

Can we change the world from our classroom?

“I´ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It´s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child´s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” There is a lot of truth in Dr. Haim  Ginott´s words. Most of the times we can make a situation better just by changing our attitude, by changing the way in which we see a problem, by showing our students the right path.

We need to teach our students not to focus on the “don´ts”, on what they do not have or on what they do not know, because if they do that, their lives will be filled with endless dissatisfaction. Instead, if they could learn to try to find the good in different situations and to overcome their obstacles not only inside the classroom but in life in general, we will be leaving an unforgettable footprint in their lives.

We are not only teachers, we are also architects of our students ‘futures. Therefore, we need to build good and strong bases to help our learners become autonomous and to give them the necessary strategies to become better students, better citizens, better persons.  

So, yes! I strongly believe that we can change the world from our classrooms! I believe that we can be that decisive element which can make a child´s life much more positive. Let´s get the world infected with this contagious attitudes towards our students!

Start your days with a smile and be happy :)

Welcome to my blog!
The aim of it is to share knowledge, experiences, information, ideas, and whatever might be useful for all those who are interested in the English language. 
I believe that we will benefit a lot from this sharing since we are all on the same page, trying to get the most of these wonderful experiences of teaching and learning.