Congratulations and . . .

We worked really hard and had the chance to share lots of ideas and activities and at the same time we had lots of fun. Great memories!

Teaching recipes

Check the teaching recipes put together in this session. Don't forget to try them out.

Teaching recipes

What is teaching?

Enjoy the great musical definitions of what teaching is. Once again, you guys rock!!

Bachata

Reggaeton

Ranchera

Merengue

The motivation angel

Here is the link to the version of the Motivation Angel we worked with in class.

The Motivation angel

Evaluating motivation and problem behavior

Here is a summary of your tweets describing ways to evaluate motivation and problem behavior within Module 4.

TEFL students will achieve the goals if they . . .

. . . understand and put into practice the motivation angel concepts.

. . . based on a video about a class, ss will propose different ways to increase motivation improve
      the general atmosphere of the class.

. . . are able to articulate 5 ways in which they are truly motivated (what motivates them to learn)
      and 5 ways in which they plan on motivating their students.

. . . create a story on storybird.com in which they have to solve a challenging academic situation.

. . . create an add or video commercial to promote a specific concept studied within this module.

      After that ss will be asked to start discussing about the drawbacks and the advantages of
      using those strategies, such comments will be posted on a blog.

. . . have their objectives clear. Moreover, complying with proposed tasks is mandatory
      to succeed.

. . . are motivated and come up with accurate and meaningful activities they can actually apply
      in their practice and become aware of the role of every aspect of the class.

. . . observe a class (if the learner isn't a teacher) or make someone video record (if they
      are teachers).

      Then they will write an essay about what they saw in class related to the module and
      the latter ones will do a self-reflection in class.

Motivation and problem behavior

Almost getting to the end of this great learning journey. Here are the pictures of your graphs with ideas to teach the topics of motivation and problem behavior. Keep the hard work.

Evaluating learning styles, MI and learners characteristics

Check all of the journals you created in the cooperative writing activity. Thanks for your great ideas.

Journal entry 1

Journal entry 2

Journal entry 3

Journal entry 4

Teaching styles, multiple intelligences and learners characteristics

Hi guys,

Here are the links for the different presentations we had in the morning. You are awesome!

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Module 4 - Styles, Multiple Intelligences, age characteristics and good learners.

Hi everybody,

Here is a summary of the first topics of Module 4. Thanks for your great attitude and participation.

Ideas to evaluate the Lesson plan content

Here is a list ideas collected on ways to evaluate the lesson planning content. We can ask trainees to . . .

* Design a lesson plan and provide a rationale to it.
* Use rubrics to evaluate the use of lesson planning in a class.
* Use instructional-theoretical assessment or pragmatical-operational assessment.
* Take a multiple choice quiz


* Write three learning objectives and identify all four components from each. (Give trainees a topic or unit),
* Write a lesson plan for one of the previous learning objectives they wrote. Make sure to include all elements.
* Do some peer work correction of previous tasks (use a rubric).


* Analyze how teachers plan including a specific topic by giving them different levels and backgrounds.
* Have a demo class to show the applicability of a task they had prepared.
* Use topics to apply the different teaching styles and analyze whether or not students perceive the changes.
* Use a half-done lesson plan to create the rest of it.
* unscrambled a lesson plan given in chunks.

Thanks for all these great ideas. Hope you find them as useful as we did.

Ideas to work with the topics of Educational technology

Hi everybody,

Here you can listen to the two recordings we received on ideas to sequence and work with the topics in chapter 21 Educational Technology and other learning resources. Great ideas and in our opinion a great point of departure to teach this module. Thanks for everything!

Group 1

Group 2

FORUM

Hi guys,

Welcome to our last activity for Day 2. Time to do some reading and think a little about our students and their learning styles:

Read the following article and post a comment answering the following questions:

1. Are you teachers prepared to try matching your teaching styles with your students' learning styles? Explain

2. Do you always remember to cater to different learning styles? Explain

Learning styles

Good learner characteristics

Here you can take a look at a list with some of the characteristics good learners should have.

Good learners . . .

Multiple Intelligences tests

Here is the link so you can take a look at the MI test we used in class.

MI test

Here is the only test Adam found. It is great, don't forget to try it out.

Multiple intelligences test

Teaching everything about lesson planning.

Hi everybody,

Here is the result of your great ideas. Hope you keep them in mind next time you get to teach this topic.

Thanks for everything.