LAST DAY OF UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!!

After four years of college, the last day finally arrived. The last class of the career was Didactics of Foreign language with Maribel.

That day, Maribel first explained some things about the activities we had to do during holidays and about the exam. Later, Maribel and a classmate surprised us by playing some Christmas songs with the transverse flute and the piano. What a great moment! In the final part of the class, Maribel brought chocolates for everyone and we listened to typical Christmas songs. It was a fantastic day!

I have learned a lot during the course of this subject since the way of working has been more dynamic than in traditional classes. The most important thing is that we have not learned theoretical content and grammar as in other subjects, but we have learned how to work and teach our students with different educational tools.

On the other hand, I have to say that we have had to carry out numerous activities and there have been times when I personally have felt very overwhelmed but in general terms, I have taken a lot of new knowledge about this subject.

PRESENTATIONS OF DIFFERENT TOPICS

During the month of December, the unit 'Teaching English to Young Children' was carried out through group presentations in class. Each group was assigned a topic and this topic was developed in class through participatory activities with classmates as if they were our students. The topic of my group was 'Story activities' and in our presentation we explained a brief introduction about what is Storytelling. Then we did two activities with the class in which I have to thank my classmates for their participation. Finally, we explained some conclusions about the many advantages of practising stories in class.

I learned and enjoyed a lot during these classes as my classmates did numerous activities based on listening, speaking, reading, writing, storytelling and festivals.

As for me, this way of learning is more innovative and motivating than traditional classes, so I am grateful that our teacher has proposed that we be the ones who are the teachers on some occasions.

ICT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION

During the end of November and the beginning of December, we were working ICT in Primary Education. ICT means "information and communication technologies", and as we all know, the technologies are very important in our society.  ICT can offer teachers and children a powerful suite of tools to support their teaching and learning. There are many advantages in order to use ICT with our students. Here is a very interesting video on why use ICT in primary school:

I learn a lot in these classes as Maribel taught us many resources in order to practise and create our own ICT activities. I discovered Symbaloo, which is a webmix where you can add presentations, storytelling, interactive activities, games, etcetera.

From my point of view, it is very important to know new teaching methods so that our future students feel more comfortable and motivated in the teaching-learning process so I found there classes as the most interestinf in the subject.

SYLLABUS AND UNITS OF WORK

During November 18 and 19 Maribel began to explain the unit called 'Syllabus and Units of works'. First of all, she explained programming is one of the most important things in our process as teachers. Then, we talked about the key competencies that we have been working with since the first year of the degree. Finally, we learnt how to design a lesson planning taking into account two important issues:

-MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES by Howargt Gardner

-THE BLOOM'S TAXONOMY 

What I learned in this unit is how to create a syllabus since we have not been taught to do it in any course of the degree. What we did have already learned was how to make didactic units. 

In my opinion, learning how to do a syllabus is essential for teachers because in the future we will have to do them. Moreover, reviewing the multiple intelligences and the Bloom's taxonomy was very interesting in order to reinforce our syllabus.