Nice idea !

Look at this picture !I think it is a nice idea to put in our "future classroom" to make students feel important and welcome to the class.

How necessary is a textbook?

This is always a good question: Is it necessary to have a textbook in the class? How and when we need to choose one?

Some teachers use textbooks as the whole part of their daily practice, but others prefer no textbooks in their classes or they prefer to select some material presented in them. 

If a teacher decides to choose a textbook, she´ll wait a period of time to know their students´previous knowledge, rhythm of learning, level of proficiency, needs and likes. In that way, the teacher can select the most appropiate textbook for them. 

However, a lesson can be great and successful always you take into account organization and always you feel sure about your own decisions.
I think we, as teachers, can´t base our lessons only on a textbook.

I found a chart which presents some advantages and disadvantages of using textbooks: 

What do you think? How necessary is a textbook?

Observing Young Children

I found this video and I think it is really interesting because it shows different ways and purposes to observe young children. I hope you like it !

"Working with Young Language Learners"

This poster is based on the First Chapter "Working with Young Language Learners" of the book Teaching English in the Primary Classroom by Susan Halliwell. We mentioned the main characteristics of children as language learners and we insisted that games, imagination and eagerness to talk are very powerful contribution to learning.
Imagination is an authentic part of being a child and so, children imagine how the world is in different ways. Those characteristics emerge students´personalities and engage children to make the language their own, living the language for real. How we put in the poster, "The only way to learn to use the language is to use it". That´s why children need to talk.
The teacher´s role is also really important. She should use gestures, intonation, demonstration and facial expressions to teach and to improve children´s communication.

Supporting English Language Learners

I want to share this video with you because its talks about supporting English language learners in the classroom. Its shows how children are able to understand what is being said to them even before they know or understand individual words in English. So, the teachers use different techniques to interact with children, who sometimes speak other languages (Spanish, Chinese, etc), because communication is a fundamental part of learning. This video shows how using intonation, gestures, facial expressions (body language), pictures and other clues can help children to improve their learning process. Another important method mentioned in the video is Total Physical Response. It said that the teacher should make the students enjoy this process of learning to communicate in a foreign language through performing the actions themselves. It is important the teacher speaks in the children´s first language and we can see how significant is for them the teacher always acts in a tolerant way.