PORTFOLIO

Teacher: Liliana Segovia

Student: Adriana Ramos

MET 6

ICPNA

April 23th, 2021

ESSAY ABOUT CHAPTER’S USEFULNESS

After completing this methodology course, I have learned a lot about techniques
and strategies to be a good teacher. These last chapters cover very important
topics like technology and I would like to emphasize them. Years of innovation
have opened teachers and students to learning applications. A new teaching
method. I learned how to take advantage of it. Especially today, technology is the
only way to access education, and most young students grew up in digital
technology in this century. That is why it is imperative to adopt technology in the
classroom. In a better way, the use of software that has become very important to
student teachers and the learning process that results from these presentations
allows students to organize and display class content using a variety of interactive
techniques. You can reach the students so that you can get their attention. You
can add audio, text, images, and even video while focusing. Speaking of tools,
activities, techniques, I like every part of how you teach important topics like
vocabulary usage, grammar, vocabulary etc., using things that are not hard to find
and each creation of a new task learned to create the perfect activity for each
subject according to its purpose. It is surprising that students are increasingly
enthusiastic about using this type of motivation in their classrooms. This simplifies
students and teachers learn and teach accordingly. Finally, I learned to improve
myself and keep improving as a teacher. It is not easy, because teachers can feel
frustrated and overwhelmed by all the pressures of today. If you are a little
depressed, you should consult and give advice. Learning and education are
inextricably linked. There is no learning without education. The opposite also is
true. Therefore, it is necessary to find new approaches when educating. The more
we get out of our comfort zone and try other forms of development in the
classroom, the more we experience, the more stress we can release, as we get
tired of doing the same thing all the time. In short, we must review everything we
have learned, from how to do the first activity to how to get out of the routine when
teaching.
 Digital natives and digital inmigrants:
Many of our young students have
grown up with 21st-Century digital
technology;it is just a part of their
normal world: familiar and well
The technology,the understood.
teacher and the student
New teach honeymoons
We need to make sure that we use
technology to a real purpose. A
computer can’t teach your students
any more than a blackboard or a
cassette recorder can.
CHAPTER 14
An interactive whiteboard (IWB) is a
multi-purpose, touch-sensitive
surface,usually attached to a
Interactive whiteboards computer and a set of loudspeakers.
An image is projected into the board
from a data projector.
Listening and
speaking
Improving skills Writing
Reading
A short list of some key technology in education must include
• Research tools: search engines, corpora, etc
• Powerpoint and other presentation software
• Free or cheap software
• Tablet computers and netbooks
• iPods, music and podcast players
• Shared learning and social media: wikis, blogs, Twitter, Faceboo
• Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), eg Moodle™
• Virtual worlds
• Write or draw with a special pen (or your finger), much as you
on a normal board.
• Save what you have done for later retrieval.
• Change or erase what you have written or start a new page.
• Show images, documents and other resources on your compute
• Annotate previously prepared word-processor texts.
• View videos and images by using the board as a large co
monitor.
• Access the Internet projecting the image full-board to the class.
• Instant language lab It’s surprisingly easy to make an effective
language laboratory. You need computers with some cheap head
that have an attached microphone.
• Podcasts Get students to download podcasts you recommend.
can listen to them on the tram home.
• Video conferencing It’s not very hard to create an online webc
nowadays.
• Integration Don’t assume that a lesson using computers or the
Internet must necessarily use that technology for all the class tim
• Emails A great way to encourage writing (and reading).
• Wikis A wiki is a co-created dictionary or encyclopaedia, built up
the writing of a number of people.
• Blogs A blog is a diary kept online. There are many services that
blogs to be set up and maintained free.
• Treasure hunts and web puzzles This is a series of questions. S
have to find the answers by searching and reading the Internet.
• Webquests This is more demanding, more open-ended and mo
involving than a treasure hunt.
 Flashcards is ELT jargon for
pictures that you can show to
Flashcards students, typically something you
can hold up when standing in
front of the whole class.
Pictures and picture stories can be in
Picture Stories a book or handout, drawn on the
board or OHP, on flashcards or on
posters.
One of the messages that teaching
supervisors and teacher-training
courses tend to hammer home as
Storytelling much as possible is that teacher
talking time (TTT) is a bad thing, and
that it should be cut down.
CHAPTER 15
Songs on recordings, video / DVD or
perhaps played on a guitar in the
classroom are often used as a ‘filler’
Song and music activity to change the mood or pace
of a lesson.
Most teachers find they need a small
Fillers collection of fillers, ie things to do when
they’ve run out of other material.
Many well-known word games can be
Lexical game used in the classroom as fillers or as
integrated practice activities.
Why poetry? Because it stimulates, wakes
Poetry us up to see things in new ways, hear
things in new ways, think of things in new
ways.
Lessons can sometimes feel a little separate
and disconnected. Activities may havesmall,
Projects isolated outcomes and sometimes don’t
seem to offer much in the way of tangible
progress or achievement.
Accuracy to fluency
This heading suggests that we start by looking at th
language involved in the story and work on getting t
understood and correct before we move on to work on
the story.
Fluency to accuracy
An alternative lesson procedure could start with a flu
activity and only focus in on accurate use of language
later stage.
• Song jumble Cut the lyrics up into separate lines. In
groups, students try to work out the original orde
• Matching pictures ‘Here are twenty pictures conne
with the song. Listen and put them in the order in whi
hear them in the song.’
• Reading or listening comprehension Use the song t
a normal reading or listening text with the bonus of h
it sung afterwards.
Some common filler
Revision dictation, Yes and no questions, The h
receptionist game, Kim’s game, Ordering, Pain
Lexical games :Back to the board, Category list, Ficti
Word seeds, Word dominoes, Word thieves, I wen
town, Word jumbles, Instant crossword, Don’t finish
Biting your tail, Chain dictation, Initial letters
Writing poems
• Finish it Provide a nearly complete poem with g
parts to complete.
• Found poems Students search for and find pot
‘poems’ within prose texts .
• Cut-ups Students are given various lines from ma
brochures, newspapers, etc.
 This a kind of teaching, in which students
are not only the learners, also teachers. To
learn while you are teaaching, ypu have to
have in mind the possibility to be wrong , so
you will learn new things. -Read and write new ideas in magazines, on blogs and
What's learnig teaching? them out.
Teacher development: Learning about - Start a local newsletter.
teaching doesn't stop whenever you are - Take part in online social networks.
training courses finish. In fact, this is where - Try a "bold parabola"
your development as a teacher really begins. - Go to conference or a seminar
You could:
- Discuss what you are doing with other teachers, et

Five types of observation:

CHAPTER 16

- Training: Help trainers to identify the level of skills

Observed Lessons
Observation is a common feature of
teacher-training courses and is a part of
inservice teacher support in many schools.
This observation can be outside eye,
someone that can tell us something .
needs.
-Developmental: This contrasts with training, in
"developmental" suggests your own agenda is paramo
-Assesment: To assess you and your teaching against
criteria of quality, acceptability, appropriacy, etc.
- Data collection: In some cases, schools and teachers
to investigate some aspects of classrooms life.
-Peer observation: Is when collegues comes into watc
your lesson.

Experience give us the possibility to study of
Studying you own teaching: our teaching. The importance of this is to
becoming a better teacher involve and
feedback, reflection and action increased awareness about what you do
research
now and an openness to the possibility of
change.
-Feedback: Ask other teacher to observe your ca
and do an exchange observation with them, not
judge the other.
- Action research: This is when teachers study th
own teaching or the students learning.

In this case there are different cards that can

be used by teachers to improve their
The pack of cards technique of teaching because in these
cards you can find suggestions and thoughts.

Language is the way we express our very

A closing comment: language
and people
being. It is the way we make contact with
other human beings. Also, the main
contibution from teachers is to help others
find their own way towards their own
solutions whitin their own lifes.
ESSAY ABOUT ACTIVITIES OBSERVATION

My opinion about the work and the presentations of my colleagues saw that they

have improved a lot. In past METs, I saw that some colleagues were shyer when

speaking in their presentations and some were nervous when exposing, but in

these presentations, I have seen a lot of difference. I've also noticed that I've been

with some of my classmates since the start of this methodology course, increasing

classroom comfort and confidence in presentations, We also have noticeable

manners while teaching and it is something that gets to that point when its being

actually by interest, I know that the ones how still here, on the way to become

teachers have already a scheduled plan that we have got perfectionitis since we

follow the advices ,and even warning of the teachers and book. Regarding the

work on technology in the reading of my colleagues Luis and Angela it was very

interesting since I was able to learn new tools to learn to read better, One

suggestion, I think that they also need to start measuring our time ,since I noticed

some of my classmates were running out of time when they haven’t finished their

presentation. In conclusion, it was a nice experience to do the demo, to work as a

team with my partners and to see their presentations since I learned a lot from it.