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Domain Criteria A
Subjet Career Professor Students
: VISE III : Pedagogy of English : Rodrigo González : Mitzi Zuber E. Lorena Rodríguez Gabriela Montes Verónica Márquez
Index
Index……………………………………………………………………1 Domain A ......................................................................................2 Domain A Criteria A1………………………………………………….3 Personal Experiences…………………………………………………4 Domain A Criteria A2………………………………………………….5 Personal Experiences…………………………………………………6 Domain A Criteria A3………………………………………………….7 Personal Experiences………………………………………………...8 Domain A Criteria A4………………………………………………….9 Domain Criteria A5……………………………………………………10 Personal Experiences………………………………………………...10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………..11
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Domain A Domain A is subdivided into 5 criteria and is responsible for teaching: A1 Dominates the contents of the disciplines taught and the national curriculum Framework. A2 Know the characteristics, knowledge and experience of their students. A3 Dominates the teaching of the disciplines taught. A4 Organized objects and contents in a manner consistent with the curriculum framework and characteristics of their students. A5 Assessment strategies are consistent with learning goals, the discipline that teaches the national curriculum framework and allows all students to demonstrate learning.
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Domain A Criteria A 1
A1 Dominates the contents of the disciplines taught and the national curriculum framework. 1) Teachers must be realistic about their capacity and the quality of their teaching inside the classroom. If the teacher does not have enough English language proficiency, he or she should become aware of it and take the necessary steps to fix the situation in pro of a higher quality education. • Maybe the teacher only need more practice. Therefore, he or she can use different internet programs to improve his or her proficiency. • If the teacher feels that his or her problem is not only lack of practice the teacher should take a course. Some schools are always open for teacher’s excellence giving the opportunity to participating on courses or small classes given by education specialist in the English language or any other educational field that can help the labor of teachers inside the classrooms. Teachers have to take full advantage of these opportunities. 2) Teacher must not forget that he or she has to be in a constant “knowledge updating” and that a “teacher never ends his or her studies”. Teachers need to avoid being stuck in one level of professional knowledge. 3) For foreign language students and teachers like us, is very easy to forget about the language if we do not practice it. Teachers must practice the language as much as possible with their colleges. In our opinion, it is the only opportunity that teachers have to full practice the language. 4) The use of English inside the classroom is crucial. Too many teachers of English use the L1 to teach an L2, teachers need to work on utilizing English as the main language spoken inside the classroom. The more expose the students are to the language the better. 5) Teacher must have a full knowledge of the programs and objectives established by the Ministry.
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Personal Experiences “In my personal experience, I consider that my guide teacher in VISE II y VISE III is an open person, because she is always looking for new activities, exercises, movies, etc that can be useful for the class. Also she shares a lot with the other English teacher who works in the school. For other side, when I did an activity that kept her attention, she consider it and included it in her own classes, also she congratulated me when I used some resources that caused a good effect in the students motivation.” “In my personal experience, the teachers that I had worked with in my Vise I, II and III have had a well thought structure as I have seen the student’s response to their classes.” “She also develops the unit with the same instruction (translation and memorize vocabulary teacher doesn’t improve her teaching, she got stuck in old ways of teaching She also complains she hasn’t enough time to create more interesting activities.”
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Domain A Criteria A 2 A2 Know the characteristics, knowledge and experience of their students. This aspect refers to the understanding that teachers are not teach their discipline "in empty“, that they teach to specific students in a definite contexts and specific conditions and characteristics which should be considered when designing learning activities for the students. The teacher must be familiar with the developmental characteristics corresponding to the age of their students, their cultural and social experiences and previous knowledge, skills and competencies regarding the target discipline. 1) To know the students is a job that teachers have to accomplish in order to succeed in teaching. Teachers have to acknowledge and assume that every student is different from each other and every one has different characteristics that need to be addresses through different teaching methods. 2) Teacher needs to observe his or her students, need to know more about them. The teacher can use surveys, interviews, or background knowledge provided by other teachers, or by the school directors. 3) The teacher needs to think about the topic that he or she will cover during her or his classes taking into consideration the student’s reality, interests, level, age and needs. In addition, the teacher needs to decide if the students will work in groups, pairs, alone, etc, to help develop their social skills. 4) The teacher will have to identify the students over the average as well the students above the average and take steps to fulfill their individual needs. The teacher will have to decide if he or she will create a different planning for these students, or maybe include more activities. 5) Teachers have to give students the tools to reach their goals and interests in that way only the teacher will avoid living students behind.
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Personal Experiences
“In my personal experience, I consider that this aspect is very difficult to achieve, because the teacher only spends a few hours a week with students, and takes a lot of time to start to know them. I consider that my guide teacher tries to understand the student’s interests but it seems that they not feel the same. Because they think that the activities that she prepares are boring.” “In my experience, the time spend in class has given me little time to get to know all the students but with the help of my guide teacher I had a more clear idea of how the students work and their educational necessities. To know their names is also very important as gives the students more self-confidence that translates in a better learning.” “She focuses only in the best students not being an example for her student because she only values the best students in her class. In my experience my teacher does in a way that, this students need to learn electrical English but she only base her activities in the minimum that they are going to use the language, for example she teach translation of security advices because she says that in the future they only are going to use the language when they go to by something to home center, and they need to understand the advice label. So, instead of giving them more tools where to use and how to use the language she just uses the minimum. She also doesn’t try to know her student much more than through their grates and only what she believes how their students are.”
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Domain A Criteria A 3 A3 Dominates the teaching of the disciplines taught. This aspect refers to the principles and pedagogical skills necessary to organize the teaching process. The teacher must have a thorough knowledge, pedagogical skills and tools to facilitate proper mediation between content, students and the respective learning context. 1) Teacher needs to read a lot about teaching approaches, and always needs to be creating new activities for their students considering their interests, abilities and context. 2) Well thought lessons and keeping continuity is important for a successful learning process. 3) Teacher needs to be open to new ideas. If a teacher thinks that only he or she has the perfect teaching method will never improve professionally. Teacher’s pedagogical skills are always perfecting and for that, it is recommendable to share experiences with other teachers and analyze the effects that this strategies cause in their students. Therefore, teachers can help each other to create the best strategy to teach to their students. 4) Teachers need to be sincere with themselves about the results that their techniques cause in the learning process. If they note that they are useless, they have to move to other strategies and resources. Teaching reflection is a good way for teachers to evaluate their work. If teachers think about the results of their activities and the methods that they use inside the classroom the results will be successful. 5) To work with a teaching method that the teacher feels comfortable with and have total dominium in order to take full advantage of it is a must. But it is also necessary to consider the individual necessities of the students and be open to intermix the different approaches inside the classroom in order to give equal learning opportunities to the students.
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Personal Experiences
“In my personal experience, I consider that my guide teacher in VISE II and VISE III had enough English language proficiency, but I don’t think the same about my VISE I guide teacher.” “My first two guide teachers used very little English inside the classroom, which I thought, was caused by the amount of students participating in the class. Too many students make the teacher’s job too hard in terms of keeping discipline and the attention of all the students. Teachers must be trained to deal will such situations. On the other hand, my present Vise has only 20 students, which make a great difference in conducting a class.” “As I have been realizing my Vise I did not observe this kind of knowledge completely. First my guide teacher do not use the foreign language, she only uses some words and not in whole sentences.”
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Domain A Criteria A 4 A4 Organized objects and contents, in a manner consistent with the curriculum, framework and characteristics of their students. 1. Teachers need to include in their planning every aspect of education giving equal importance to the cognitive development of the students as well as the values necessaries to function in our society. 2. Safe keeping the activities that the teacher tries and work well with the students for future use. If the teacher knows that, the activity can be a success it can be also share with other teachers. 3. Teacher must have a full knowledge of the programs and objectives established by the Ministry in order to be included in the activities planed by the teachers. 4. Consider teaching activities varied spaces of speaking, reading and sculpture by students related to learning addressed in the various subsectors.
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Domain A Criteria A 5 A5 Assessment strategies are consistent with learning goals, the discipline that teaches the national curriculum framework and allows all students to demonstrate learning. 1) The evaluation criteria used are consistent with the learning objectives. The teacher uses various assessment strategies that allow integrating the proposed contents. The assessment shows if learning were achieved. 2) Assessment strategies are consistent with the complexity of the content involved. The teacher knows which strategies to use to address different skills and competencies.
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3) Learn various strategies and assessment techniques commensurate with the discipline it teaches. Know the most appropriate strategies for achieving the objective. 4)
Assessment strategies provide students with equitable opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned. Known strategies identify the level of learning.
Th e teach ers b s e le c t a n d o r g a con ten ts p rese a s s e s s t h e le a r Personal Experiences
“In this case my experience was as follows: Professor evaluations used consistent with the subjects learned. When I had to teach my unit, try to use different strategies within the same class. I do different techniques and methods very entertaining and dynamic. Any kind was equal to the previous one; always I try to
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surprise the students, obviously some methods and exercises that give me good result, I again used.”
Conclusion In conclusion we can say that all the areas of which we have spoken within critera A are very important for good school development. It is essential that teachers have mastered the content of the disciplines taught and the national curriculum framework, because each school has its own rules and regulations and most of them impose this curriculum framework. Furthermore, knowledge about the student is a major concern because we know that students are much more than a number in the room. Each has an inner world filled with concerns, problems, different experiences, each is complete. It is important to use all the techniques and methods needed for the benefit of students´ learning. The teacher must learn various teaching strategies and activities consistent with the complexity of content. Teachers must also learn strategies and assessment techniques commensurate with the discipline they teach. We could see that in most schools, English language isn’t spoken in class, very little English is spoken in the classroom which we think is a mistake, since the less time the students are exposed to the English language, the less likely it is they will learn it. Some teachers repeat much of their strategies and do not consider all students; they do not consider that some students learn in a holistic way, others step by step, and others visually and so on. When a person stands in front of students intent on conveying lessons, they must be well prepared in all the areas already mentioned, knowledge, strategies, techniques and everything needed for a successful and differentiated classroom experience.
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Subjet Career Professor Students
: VISE III : Pedagogy of English : Rodrigo González : Mitzi Zuber E. Lorena Rodríguez Gabriela Montes Verónica Márquez
Index
Index……………………………………………………………………1 Domain A ......................................................................................2 Domain A Criteria A1………………………………………………….3 Personal Experiences…………………………………………………4 Domain A Criteria A2………………………………………………….5 Personal Experiences…………………………………………………6 Domain A Criteria A3………………………………………………….7 Personal Experiences………………………………………………...8 Domain A Criteria A4………………………………………………….9 Domain Criteria A5……………………………………………………10 Personal Experiences………………………………………………...10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………..11
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Domain A Domain A is subdivided into 5 criteria and is responsible for teaching: A1 Dominates the contents of the disciplines taught and the national curriculum Framework. A2 Know the characteristics, knowledge and experience of their students. A3 Dominates the teaching of the disciplines taught. A4 Organized objects and contents in a manner consistent with the curriculum framework and characteristics of their students. A5 Assessment strategies are consistent with learning goals, the discipline that teaches the national curriculum framework and allows all students to demonstrate learning.
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Domain A Criteria A 1
A1 Dominates the contents of the disciplines taught and the national curriculum framework. 1) Teachers must be realistic about their capacity and the quality of their teaching inside the classroom. If the teacher does not have enough English language proficiency, he or she should become aware of it and take the necessary steps to fix the situation in pro of a higher quality education. • Maybe the teacher only need more practice. Therefore, he or she can use different internet programs to improve his or her proficiency. • If the teacher feels that his or her problem is not only lack of practice the teacher should take a course. Some schools are always open for teacher’s excellence giving the opportunity to participating on courses or small classes given by education specialist in the English language or any other educational field that can help the labor of teachers inside the classrooms. Teachers have to take full advantage of these opportunities. 2) Teacher must not forget that he or she has to be in a constant “knowledge updating” and that a “teacher never ends his or her studies”. Teachers need to avoid being stuck in one level of professional knowledge. 3) For foreign language students and teachers like us, is very easy to forget about the language if we do not practice it. Teachers must practice the language as much as possible with their colleges. In our opinion, it is the only opportunity that teachers have to full practice the language. 4) The use of English inside the classroom is crucial. Too many teachers of English use the L1 to teach an L2, teachers need to work on utilizing English as the main language spoken inside the classroom. The more expose the students are to the language the better. 5) Teacher must have a full knowledge of the programs and objectives established by the Ministry.
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Personal Experiences “In my personal experience, I consider that my guide teacher in VISE II y VISE III is an open person, because she is always looking for new activities, exercises, movies, etc that can be useful for the class. Also she shares a lot with the other English teacher who works in the school. For other side, when I did an activity that kept her attention, she consider it and included it in her own classes, also she congratulated me when I used some resources that caused a good effect in the students motivation.” “In my personal experience, the teachers that I had worked with in my Vise I, II and III have had a well thought structure as I have seen the student’s response to their classes.” “She also develops the unit with the same instruction (translation and memorize vocabulary teacher doesn’t improve her teaching, she got stuck in old ways of teaching She also complains she hasn’t enough time to create more interesting activities.”
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Domain A Criteria A 2 A2 Know the characteristics, knowledge and experience of their students. This aspect refers to the understanding that teachers are not teach their discipline "in empty“, that they teach to specific students in a definite contexts and specific conditions and characteristics which should be considered when designing learning activities for the students. The teacher must be familiar with the developmental characteristics corresponding to the age of their students, their cultural and social experiences and previous knowledge, skills and competencies regarding the target discipline. 1) To know the students is a job that teachers have to accomplish in order to succeed in teaching. Teachers have to acknowledge and assume that every student is different from each other and every one has different characteristics that need to be addresses through different teaching methods. 2) Teacher needs to observe his or her students, need to know more about them. The teacher can use surveys, interviews, or background knowledge provided by other teachers, or by the school directors. 3) The teacher needs to think about the topic that he or she will cover during her or his classes taking into consideration the student’s reality, interests, level, age and needs. In addition, the teacher needs to decide if the students will work in groups, pairs, alone, etc, to help develop their social skills. 4) The teacher will have to identify the students over the average as well the students above the average and take steps to fulfill their individual needs. The teacher will have to decide if he or she will create a different planning for these students, or maybe include more activities. 5) Teachers have to give students the tools to reach their goals and interests in that way only the teacher will avoid living students behind.
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Personal Experiences
“In my personal experience, I consider that this aspect is very difficult to achieve, because the teacher only spends a few hours a week with students, and takes a lot of time to start to know them. I consider that my guide teacher tries to understand the student’s interests but it seems that they not feel the same. Because they think that the activities that she prepares are boring.” “In my experience, the time spend in class has given me little time to get to know all the students but with the help of my guide teacher I had a more clear idea of how the students work and their educational necessities. To know their names is also very important as gives the students more self-confidence that translates in a better learning.” “She focuses only in the best students not being an example for her student because she only values the best students in her class. In my experience my teacher does in a way that, this students need to learn electrical English but she only base her activities in the minimum that they are going to use the language, for example she teach translation of security advices because she says that in the future they only are going to use the language when they go to by something to home center, and they need to understand the advice label. So, instead of giving them more tools where to use and how to use the language she just uses the minimum. She also doesn’t try to know her student much more than through their grates and only what she believes how their students are.”
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Domain A Criteria A 3 A3 Dominates the teaching of the disciplines taught. This aspect refers to the principles and pedagogical skills necessary to organize the teaching process. The teacher must have a thorough knowledge, pedagogical skills and tools to facilitate proper mediation between content, students and the respective learning context. 1) Teacher needs to read a lot about teaching approaches, and always needs to be creating new activities for their students considering their interests, abilities and context. 2) Well thought lessons and keeping continuity is important for a successful learning process. 3) Teacher needs to be open to new ideas. If a teacher thinks that only he or she has the perfect teaching method will never improve professionally. Teacher’s pedagogical skills are always perfecting and for that, it is recommendable to share experiences with other teachers and analyze the effects that this strategies cause in their students. Therefore, teachers can help each other to create the best strategy to teach to their students. 4) Teachers need to be sincere with themselves about the results that their techniques cause in the learning process. If they note that they are useless, they have to move to other strategies and resources. Teaching reflection is a good way for teachers to evaluate their work. If teachers think about the results of their activities and the methods that they use inside the classroom the results will be successful. 5) To work with a teaching method that the teacher feels comfortable with and have total dominium in order to take full advantage of it is a must. But it is also necessary to consider the individual necessities of the students and be open to intermix the different approaches inside the classroom in order to give equal learning opportunities to the students.
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Personal Experiences
“In my personal experience, I consider that my guide teacher in VISE II and VISE III had enough English language proficiency, but I don’t think the same about my VISE I guide teacher.” “My first two guide teachers used very little English inside the classroom, which I thought, was caused by the amount of students participating in the class. Too many students make the teacher’s job too hard in terms of keeping discipline and the attention of all the students. Teachers must be trained to deal will such situations. On the other hand, my present Vise has only 20 students, which make a great difference in conducting a class.” “As I have been realizing my Vise I did not observe this kind of knowledge completely. First my guide teacher do not use the foreign language, she only uses some words and not in whole sentences.”
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Domain A Criteria A 4 A4 Organized objects and contents, in a manner consistent with the curriculum, framework and characteristics of their students. 1. Teachers need to include in their planning every aspect of education giving equal importance to the cognitive development of the students as well as the values necessaries to function in our society. 2. Safe keeping the activities that the teacher tries and work well with the students for future use. If the teacher knows that, the activity can be a success it can be also share with other teachers. 3. Teacher must have a full knowledge of the programs and objectives established by the Ministry in order to be included in the activities planed by the teachers. 4. Consider teaching activities varied spaces of speaking, reading and sculpture by students related to learning addressed in the various subsectors.
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Domain A Criteria A 5 A5 Assessment strategies are consistent with learning goals, the discipline that teaches the national curriculum framework and allows all students to demonstrate learning. 1) The evaluation criteria used are consistent with the learning objectives. The teacher uses various assessment strategies that allow integrating the proposed contents. The assessment shows if learning were achieved. 2) Assessment strategies are consistent with the complexity of the content involved. The teacher knows which strategies to use to address different skills and competencies.
D o m a Ai n:H o w
3) Learn various strategies and assessment techniques commensurate with the discipline it teaches. Know the most appropriate strategies for achieving the objective. 4)
Assessment strategies provide students with equitable opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned. Known strategies identify the level of learning.
Th e teach ers b s e le c t a n d o r g a con ten ts p rese a s s e s s t h e le a r Personal Experiences
“In this case my experience was as follows: Professor evaluations used consistent with the subjects learned. When I had to teach my unit, try to use different strategies within the same class. I do different techniques and methods very entertaining and dynamic. Any kind was equal to the previous one; always I try to
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surprise the students, obviously some methods and exercises that give me good result, I again used.”
Conclusion In conclusion we can say that all the areas of which we have spoken within critera A are very important for good school development. It is essential that teachers have mastered the content of the disciplines taught and the national curriculum framework, because each school has its own rules and regulations and most of them impose this curriculum framework. Furthermore, knowledge about the student is a major concern because we know that students are much more than a number in the room. Each has an inner world filled with concerns, problems, different experiences, each is complete. It is important to use all the techniques and methods needed for the benefit of students´ learning. The teacher must learn various teaching strategies and activities consistent with the complexity of content. Teachers must also learn strategies and assessment techniques commensurate with the discipline they teach. We could see that in most schools, English language isn’t spoken in class, very little English is spoken in the classroom which we think is a mistake, since the less time the students are exposed to the English language, the less likely it is they will learn it. Some teachers repeat much of their strategies and do not consider all students; they do not consider that some students learn in a holistic way, others step by step, and others visually and so on. When a person stands in front of students intent on conveying lessons, they must be well prepared in all the areas already mentioned, knowledge, strategies, techniques and everything needed for a successful and differentiated classroom experience.
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