ENGLISH DIDACTICS I

 Hello everyone! How are you doing? I hope you´re doing awesome and that you're ready for... 🥁🥁🥁 Another weakly entry! Today we are going to get into Magic moments, sensible diversions, unforeseen problems, and S.M.A.R.T objectives in lesson planning. We started yesterday's class by talking about objectives. Objectives are very important to know what we want to focus on and what we are seeking for students to reach at the end of the lesson. Teacher Orlando mentioned that there are 3 main types of objectives; we can be as vague or as precise as we want with our objectives. Or we can be somehow in between, but we should always make sure that we are clear with what we want to achieve.  I was reading the material about S.M.A.R.T. objectives. They should be Specific. Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based. This is a very useful key to what we should consider when crafting our objectives. Teacher Orlando also showed us an example of his own (the one that he crafted for t

Hi everyone! Welcome back to a new entry! ☺️ Today we are going to review last class´ topics, which were Lesson planning, CCQs, and ICQs. The last two were totally new for me, and I was impressed by how teachers do so much more behind the scenes, and everything they do to teach their students is backed up with the theory. I thought it was just a coincidence their way of asking questions. 😄 Thursday´s session was asynchronous since University was crowded because of its anniversary, however... We had material to work on! I went through it, and as soon as I started reading I realized that we would find something new and interesting. I watched the videos on lesson planning and I totally agreed that planning our lessons is vital to save plenty of our time, teachers can recycle PPTS, worksheets, realia, etc, besides, this helps to avoid behavioral problems since everything is planned according to time, so students ideally won´t have too many gaps to get distracted.  I recorded my opinion on

Hello everyone! It´s nice to be back again!  It feels like it was yesterday when we were in Didactics I, and in the blink of an eye, we are now in Didactics II. 😮😮😎 We had our first English Didactic class last  Thursday, we talked about how the three registers will be distributed and teacher Orlando gave us a little insight on how we will be evaluated, although we won´t have written midterms perse, we will start planning and teaching!  I am pretty excited that we will have a closer look into real-life scenarios. I am sure we will struggle sometimes but I am also sure that we will spend a good time in the class with our future students, so I can´t wait to see what it all will be like!  We also did a surprise diagnosis test and I was quite disappointed by my lack of memory 😅 but in my defense, I have to say that maybe I did not remember the names but some important features of each theory and method, so that was a plus. Still, I did pretty bad and I´m looking forward to learning from