This is my reflection about the 22nd of July. This morning we had a session in the morning before the break divided into two parts or activities. First at all, Johanna Stirling showed us a video about how teachers are checked or helped in Great Britain in their teaching program with children in the schools.
We could watch on the smart board an example of how a teacher is being observed by an inspector and later, she is being helped by her, with different instructions.
The inspector gives her advices about her classes, all in a very polite and helpful way.
Later, we talked about our reflections about the video in relation with that.
At the second part, Amaya a Spanish teacher in Catton Grove Primary School came in to Nile to explain to us what her job consists on. Actually, she is an EAL teacher because she is responsible for the students who come from foreign countries and for their adaptation to a new educational system.
One of the points that she talked to us was the behaviour and its control, because for us in Spain it shows us a lot of difficulties. For this reason, she explained to us how they organized this item with cards (yellow, red and green), stamps, stickers. More or less these techniques are being done by us in Spain too.
For me as a teacher in relation with the control of the behavieur we should follow the same rules in the team of teachers to control the students.
After the break we continued working on our projects.
In the afternoom we went to the Assembly House to know Gillie Cunningham. She worked as a teacher and teacher trainer and she has been involved with Cambridge University Press in examinations and she is the co-author of Face to Face and adult course.
During the conference she talked about errors and mistakes and about different methods of knowledge and the language adquisition but the most important issue could be our attitude as teachers to our students´mistakes .
As a reflection I think that the lecture has been very usefull, so nice and funny and it was a plesuare to listen to her because her ideas were so clear and we can learn about her different points of view.
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