8VO SKARMETA

Today I want to share with you a picture of my students. the eight year skarmeta from Liahona School. They were the children with I was doing my professional training.
I would like to say that I enjoyed every minute with them and I learnt a lot working with them.
The next week they are going to graduate and I was invited to assit to that important moment of their live. It means a lot to me the gesture they had.
I hope to improve every day and give the better of me teaching english.
thats all for today but before saying goodbye Iwould like to share with you the following quote and I hope you like it.

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner

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Well I enjoyed doing this blog. I thing it is very useful for me because I could train writing and also checking my mistakes.
I thing that I will use this instrument in the future with my students.
I learn a lot from my classmates presentations and also about what I investigate to do my presentation as well.
I think this was a great lesson and useful even thoguh we didnot have a lot of time with Mr Litman.
I would like to say that I am going to continue looking the perfection in my writing and also I will try to write carefully because when I write I do not pay attention to details.

If any person who visit my blog look find a mistake please let me know writing a comment.

large hadron collider

The last lesson I could not be present because I was working in my thesis and I think thath at the moment it was more important. One of my classmates old me that fabian presented about LHC and I think that it was an excellent topic and I decided to do a reserch about it. So this is what I found.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each moving at approximately 99.999999% of the speed of light.

The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesised Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, it lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border between the Jura Mountains and the Alps near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time. On 19 September 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. The LHC will not be operational again until summer 2009.

The LHC was officially inaugurated on 21 October 2008, in the presence of political leaders, science ministers from CERN's 20 Member States, CERN officials, and members of the worldwide scientific community.

cartoons, TV and videogames

Today also presented felipe who talked about cartoons, TV and Videogames.

He gave some examples like Pokemon that means "pocket monsters", through this Japanese cartoons, is possible to recognize some hidden words in the name of the characters like "Ekans" = Snake, or "Arboc" = Cobra. The other way to understand and learn new words in English is through video games, according to what Felipe said, people is more exposed to use English through video games because usually, video games are played in its original language (English).
This presentation was very interesting and helpful as well, because we can use this information in our lessons and theach the students through authentic material.

Role playing in education

Claudio spoke about "Role playing games in education", I know that he is a lover of this kind of games that is the reason why I could understand his original topic, anyway, trough this presentation, Claudio explained some different aspects about role games, and how it can be used in order to motivate the students to use their imagination and some academical skills at the same time.

Personally, I do not like this kind of games, but indirectly Claudio gave me an incredible advice "teach playing and you will be giving a significative teaching".

communication with your children

Today Peter presented about comunication. his point of view were really interesting and also He integrated his presentation with diego`s presentation and mine.
he showed advantages for a good communication and some ideas to improve the relation between parents and children.
I enjoyed his presentation and I think that he was very well prepared and he chose a song called jeremy by pearl jam that show what happen when we are not able to have a good communication with our sons.

femicide is not fashionable

The second presentation of this day was made by katherine, she decided to talk about "Femicide" a very serious topic that day to day is more present in our social context where a lot woman are killed by their stupid couples. Katherine, did not just talk about femicide, she explained how our society is accepting this kind of behaviour as some common and normal, her example was about a jeans brand that promote its products through images where girls were hurt by bad boys, this brand is called FES.

I think was an interesting topic and well prepared, she showed confidence and good speech.

teacher burnout

Today also evelyn presented. she presented about teacher burnout. she followed the steps are neccesary in a presentation introduction, definition, causes, sign and sympthoms, treatment and prevention and finally a conclusion. she gave us a handout with vocabulary and useful information.

She has always demonstrated that prepare very carefully her presentation.

stress at the end of the year

This class, Nicole talked about the stress that we as teachers might cope with at the end of the year. She gave us some tips to help us control our emotions and maintain calm.

I can say that Nicole's presentation was really useful to reload our energies to finish this year in a good way. she had a good speech, i think that nicole has been improving through the presentation because now she looks more confident so well done.

Course book

Rodrigo presented his personal topic, it was about "Course books".

Rodrigo tried to explain the advantages and disadvantages of "Course books" for teachers at the moment of teaching.

For me, the advantages and disadvantages are very clear. In the case of advantages, I have to say that text books can be very useful to use new ideas and strategies to teach and evaluate but at the same time text books can affects the teachers' per.

gender byas

Fernanda presented about Gender Bias in education. We usually do not pay attention to thids kind of things and whitout knowing we are discriminating between men and women.

If we think in the word "History" we can realize this is compund by "His-Story", I mean the story of "his" of "Men"... it is really important because society is always separating and classifying men a women, and we cannot allow this to continue inside the classroom.

The presentation was quite clear and showed a very powerful message we were not aware of before the presentation.

critical opinion parameters

Today Mr Litman gave us certain parameters to pay attention.
This parameters were:

• Body language: gesture, mood, eye contact and posture.
• use of english: accent, fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, intonation, word order, rhythm.
• dcontent: depth and breadth.
• originality and novelty.

well this are some of the point that I havce to pay attention in order to give better feedback to my classmates.

Tic`s

daniela's speech
"Tic's in children education"

After fernanda`s presntation it was the turn of Daniela who talked about smartboard.

She talked about a seminar that she assited in universidad Finis Terrea. The topic was intelligent whityeboards. The only thing that I could say that I learnt was that smartboard is a brand and there are just two school that have this tecnology in their places.

I do not have much to say because I thing Daniela is very worried about her work and she did it quite well.

individual presentations

The first one it was Diego.
He presented about drugs, specifically about mary jane.
He haves us some tips that how we can work this subject with our students.
Finally he showed a video very thoghu about the consume of drugs.
It was very well prepared and short, He did a very good job.

Then it was my turn, I prsented about teenagers deppres and suicide.
I try to give some tips to detect this terrible illness and to help people that migth have this illness. I was nervous and I think that I have to control that, so I am going to work in that.

Curfew in teenagers

Today some of my classmates from section 2 make a presentation about "curfew in teenagers".

Claudia, Clara and Marlen gave some information about the topic and then started a debate.

Personnaly I did not enjoy the debate because I felt like they were not very well prepared to do

a debate, even though the information was good and clear I noticed that they made organizational mistakes, as an example when Claudia was presented sudenly one of the other girls interrupted her and started talking about other things.

I hope the next time they prepare a better presentation and also they get involved with the topic they will present

pre university courses, are they necessary?

this debate was presented by Marlen, Paula and Claudio.

They started talking about what preuniversity are.

According with them preuniversity are:

"institutions focused to prepare students to face the PSU (prueba de selección universitaria)"

then they explain the differences between the preuniversity like prices, and names.

finally they did the debate question, Are the preuniversity necessaries?

the conclusion some people need them and other do not. it is going to depends on the mature of the students or the based education before the PSU. In my personal case I needed because I studied in a technical school and there you are not prepared to face a PSU.

can anyone be a teacher?

Felipe, Fernanda and Diego presented this topic.

they started giving some of information about Finland ands South of Korea where good jobs and teacher's qualifications are a result of high student's scores.

Finally they started the debate based on the following question. Can anybody be a teacher?

I personally think that anyone can instruct in some subject that somebody manage, but being a teacher is more than manage in a specific topic. I think anyone who decide to be a teacher should test in order to now if the person really want to be a teacher, because is difficult to deal with different matter that happen inside a classroom and mainly the person who wants to be a teacher should have vocation because if the person does not have vocation the result that he/she gets would not be goods.

So I think the person who decide to be a teacher should have to take a vocational test.

Keirsey temperament

We had to do a test from the web site www.keirsey.com. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a powerful 70 question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. After 71 questions, this is my result:

"ARTISAN"

All Artisans (SPs) share the following core characteristics:

• Artisans tend to be fun-loving, optimistic, realistic, and focused on the here and now.
• Artisans pride themselves on being unconventional, bold, and spontaneous.
• Artisans make playful mates, creative parents, and troubleshooting leaders.
• Artisans are excitable, trust their impulses, want to make a splash, seek stimulation, prize freedom, and dream of mastering action skills.

Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.

Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.

In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow never comes.

Cuban Educational System

This class Katherine, Pedro and Fabian presented their topic and debate about Cuban Education.

Some important facts:

• Cuba maintains the highest rate of literacy in Latin America.


• If they graduate from the preparatory college school, they can attend college for free if they choose.


• The record of Cuban education is outstanding: universal school enrollment and attendance; nearly universal adult literacy.

And they have:

• Great attention to teachers (extensive pre- and in-service training, high status and morale, incentives, transparent system of accountability, strategies for developing a culture of professionalism, rewards for innovation)


• Low-cost instructional materials of high quality

After these valuable information our classmates separated us in two groups to start the debate.

the debate was really entertainment because all of us had something to say, so we share opinions and as a conclusion we think that we are not prepared for use this method in our country, because the government prefer to invest the money in other matters, and I think do not take serious the education in our country.

British Educational System

Today was the turn of Evelyn, Maria Teresa and Rodrigo.
They presented about the British educational system and focused on "Public School".
Schools that are very different from what are our public school just look at the picture that belong to Wellington college (a public school)

I enjoyed the presentation because I learnt about a different educational system and also because it was really precise in terms of time and very well prepared by my classmates.
Ones the presentation finished we started a nice debate where we gave our arguments about this topic.
And as I said in the debate as a conclusion "I prefer my children are in school learning and studying instead of being alone at home"