I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Bullying in Secondary schools


Claudio, Fabian and Pedro talked about bullying in secondary school.
It was a nice presentation, they started given a definition of bullying, the causes and also the influence of the media in this topic. they showed us characteristics from the aggressor and the victim, the role of the parents, they gave us tips of control and prevention of bullying, and a video which showed a short story of a child that was being bulled and how he faced this problem.
They asked us ours point of view and tried to make us participated, but they forgot the activity so it was more a presentation than a micro lesson.

Life by Bruno Bozzetto


Today Mr Litman showed us a flash called "LIFE"
it was really interesting because the flash showed us how had been the evolution of our life.
the flash started showing a person who was in a cloud and this person take a sit and then get some kind of machine. this machine had got 7 buttons 6 of them with numbers and the last one with the word delete.
this person firstly press the 1 and pick a planet then he press the 2 and he got a zoom then he press the 3 and started to appear trees and flowers then he press the 4 and appear animals then he press the 5 and appear humans and houses then he press the 6 and appear a lot of building and skyscrapers. suddenly among the buildings started to sound screams sirens and shoots. this person got a binoculars and he looked among the buildings and the only thing he saw was violence, pollution and noise, he saw just chaos so he make a decision and press the last button and this planet was gone to the garbage and inside the garbage had a lot of planets and between them were the earth.

This flash makes me think about how the human being have lost their values and how we are destroying our planet. This flash showed a critics, in my opinion, of human being http://www.bozzetto.com/Flash/Life.htm in this direction you can watch the LIFE's flash

Teacher's Personality


Today presented Dreny, Nicole and Katherine. They talked about how we should be in front of a class, how we could improve what we already know but don’t practice and how we should behave with students correctly. They gave us some tips to improve our lessons.
They mentioned the teachers' role. Among them we can find involver, planner, manager, motivator, parent/ friend, diagnostician and resource.
They made a good presentation with a very interesting video called "Teddy's Bear". This video was about the story of a teacher and her prejudices about a boy with no interest in class. The ending of the story was really emotive. It was a sad story but with a happy ending.
They had a good use of time but while they were showed us the parctical hints for teacher I got loose because they did that part so fast that I couldn't understand some teachers' roles and They forgot to gave more participation to the students.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Classroom Management (presented by Rodrigo, Diego and me)


Today was day of presentation. Diego, Rodrigo and I presented about classroom management. I think our presentation was clear and also well explain. We showed a power point in where we put some important piece of information such a: use of voice, proximity, seating arrangement, some tips about how to get the students’ attention.
I personally think that our presentation was well organized and also well prepared but we made a mistake because we forgot it to print a material that we prepared in order to know if our classmates pay attention to our presentation, so that was a point less and also an other thing to pay attention the next time it is control our time because we past the 20 minutes that we had.
I hope the next time I do it better and I hope to improve the things that we forgot such a time and print the material before the lesson.

That’s all folks peace out

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Open a Facebook account


Well today I had lesson in the lab and I created an account on Facebook. I’m not familiar with Facebook but I’ll try to use it so anyone who wants to be my friend just has to send me an invitation and I will be very happy to accept it.
The next Tuesday I will have to present about classroom management and I hope to do it very well. That’s all for today

Peace out

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Liverpool reachs semifinal


Well today I didn't have communicative's lesson because my teacher get sick. So I run to my place and I arrived when Babel score the 4-2 against Arsenal. I'm really happy becasue my team reaches the semifinal in the UEFA Champions League and I hope that Liverpool also win against Chelsea on april 22nd. Ok thats all for today.


I'm still without knowing about what it is going to be written here.
Anyway

See you around.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Welcome to Anfield Road

Well, this is my first post. I've just created this space but I'm still not sure about what is going to be written here.
So I started giving a personal touch about my favourite hobbie to feel more comfortable while editing this space.Well, see you arround and, please, be welcome to Anfield !!!