Last Friday my colleague Mireia and me were invited to observe 1ESO and 2ESO students. It was a great chance to see two groups with both different ways to teaching and learning.
The first group was 2ESO, which was composed of 14 students ( it was a splitted group) leaded by M. Carmen, their English teacher. As Friday was Halloween, all the students had to prepare a presentation about it. To tell you the truth, I was really impressed by their motivation! They had worked hard on that presentation and it was the time to perform it in front of all the students. They prepared power points and created spooky stories. They did a very good job as they were all really involved and they were taking part of each presentation by asking questions and giving their opinion about it.
The second group was 1ESO, and there were like 7 students leaded by Montserrat, their English and Catalan teacher. This group was different from all the other ones, the students had more difficulties in remembering language structures and vocabulary, and even some lack of habits, so the teacher worked this skill together with English. They were studing the colours, and in order to remember them easily, she made them listen to a song which was all about the name of the colours. Then there was an activity which consisted of relating the colour of the song (when the singer said it) with the different colours that they aldready had in a box. Later, they had to colour different draws while we were asking them if they could name the colour they were using. The majority of them could guess the colour and they were actually signing the song. However, maybe some of them had more difficulties in being concentraged or in naming the real colour, but they tried hard, and that's the most important thing!
From my viewpoint, I think that it's really important to get to know different ways of learning and teaching. It's useful because then you can take a little bit of everything that you've observed in these classrooms and start creating your own way of teaching.
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