La Desconferencia: EdCamp Santiago
Soy un maestro. Soy el más afortunado de todos quienes trabajan. A un médico se le permite traer una vida en un momento mágico.
¡A mí se me permite que esa vida renazca día a a día con nuevas preguntas, ideas y amistades!
EdCamp Santiago es la desconferencia. Entrada gratuita, desarrollo profesional, por profesores, para profesores. Compartir en vez de competir, aprendizaje entre pares. Participantes comparten y intercambian sus mejores prácticas pedagógicas: “Best Practices”.
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Se realizó la Jornada de Orientación Regional para voluntarios angloparlantes en la Región Metropolitana
Los jóvenes angloparlantes James Yakscoe y Liam Raftery trabajarán hasta Noviembre del presente año en establecimientos de Pudahuel y Calera de Tango
El pasado lunes 11 de Junio el Programa Inglés Abre Puertas (PIAP), junto a su Centro Nacional de Voluntarios (CNV), realizaron una Jornada de Orientación Regional para recibir a los dos nuevos jóvenes angloparlantes que vienen a apoyar la enseñanza del inglés a estudiantes de la Región Metropolitana y que permanecerán en nuestro país hasta el 30 de Noviembre del año en curso.
Dentro de este contexto, James Yakscoe trabajará con su profesora guía Karen Morán en el Instituto Tecnológico San Mateo, de la comuna de Pudahuel, y Liam Raftery lo hará con su profesora guía Karen Reyes en el Colegio San Andrés, de Calera de Tango.
En la jornada, los voluntarios se reunieron con sus docentes, junto a quienes conocieron los lineamientos generales del PIAP y se informaron sobre el modelo de enseñanza que ambos deben adoptar al trabajar juntos, los que fueron expuestos por la Encargada Regional de Inglés del PIAP en la Región Metropolitana, Marcela Salgado. Para finalizar la actividad, los voluntarios tuvieron la oportunidad de conocer información general sobre sus respectivos establecimientos y los(as) estudiantes.
“Mediante esta capacitación, podemos establecer procedimientos standard sobre el desempeño de los voluntarios en el aula y en el trabajo con su head teacher” afirmó Marcela Salgado.
Fuente: Mineduc: Programa Inglés Abre Puertas (PIAP)
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Amazon Author Page: Thomas Jerome Baker
Teaching the Four Skills in EFL: Activities for EFL Teachers
Over the course of my teaching career I have learned much from observation and experimentation with my students. I owe an eternal debt of gratitude for their willingness to cooperate with me over the years. Thank you, dear students! EFL Teachers: No matter how good a particular resource or lesson may be, in the end, there is no substitute for the teacher’s own judgement about what works and what doesn’t work with your students.. In this spirit, I recommend the activities for teaching the four skills contained within these pages.
Reading is for me an act of transformation that is magical. Thirst and hunger fade as the words find their place in my remembrance of you. Who might you be? You are here with me. Happiness, felicity, thy name is Gaby. Source of all my bravery, you are my poetry… Reading, I fear thee not. Fear of reading, Neither cold nor hot, I am reading. I read for my wife, Gabriela de Lourdes León Vargas. I read for my son, Thomas Jerome Baker, Jr. No fear of reading, I am reading…
“How do you become a good teacher?” Those of you who know me from reading my writing already know my answer. The short answer, the simple answer, the easy to understand answer. It has two parts.
First, love what you do. Love being a teacher so much that if you had the power to be anything on Earth, pilot, astronaut, doctor, dentist, taxi-driver, singer, dancer, artist, musician, anything at all, you would still choose to be a teacher. Love being a teacher, that’s number one.
The Chilean National English Test
SIMCE Ingles 2010: The development of the national English test in Chile coincides with my story, which is woven autobiographically into the larger story, a test which apparently resulted in only 11% of students able to achieve a passing score. This book will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will reveal secrets to you that you thought you already knew about tests, test-making, and test-reporting. More importantly, you leave the reading of this book with a renewed sense of confidence in who you are, and what you do…
This book contains all you need to know to successfully coach a debate team. First, you may need to convince your students that debate is a good thing: 1. Debating ability is a valuable skill. 2. Debate utilizes useful English. 3. It is a unique way to teach grammar. 4. It develops critical thinking skills. 5. It introduces global issues. 6. It develops research skills. This book will give you insights into how to coach a successful debate team, and equally important, have a lot of fun while doing it…
The Interview Teacher: From Imagination to Sophistication
The interview is a genre of written English that gets very little attention, if any, in English Language Teaching. It is highly individualized in nature, requiring flexibility on the part of the interviewer and the interviewee, if it is to be genuinely interactive and spontaneous. Yet what conclusions can draw about an interview, in general, that might be helpful for the English Language Learner? To attempt to answer that question in any kind of depth, actual interviews will be used as a base of reference. Thus, this book attempts to shed some light on the interview as genre in ELT.
La Desconferencia: EdCamp Santiago
Soy un maestro. Soy el más afortunado de todos quienes trabajan. A un médico se le permite traer una vida en un momento mágico.
¡A mí se me permite que esa vida renazca día a a día con nuevas preguntas, ideas y amistades!
EdCamp Santiago es la desconferencia. Entrada gratuita, desarrollo profesional, por profesores, para profesores. Compartir en vez de competir, aprendizaje entre pares. Participantes comparten y intercambian sus mejores prácticas pedagógicas: “Best Practices”.
My Dear Friend, Welcome to Chile: The Most Beautiful Country in the World
My Dear Friend, Welcome to Chile. This book shares the personal sentiment of its author, an expat, after having lived the past ten years in Chile. He says: “I live in Chile, the most beautiful country in the world.” He continues: “As I say these words, I want you to know that I come from the United States of America, a country that stretches from sea to shining sea, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The USA is indeed a magnificent country, but it isn’t Chile…” I’m sure there are many countries, all of them great, all of them wonderful. Nonetheless, Chile is the best when it is beauty that we speak of. What makes Chile stand so high above all the rest? The answer to this question and much more are to be found within the pages of this remarkable collection of personal reflections about Chile, the land and its people, its treasured joys and its ongoing challenges…
Pecha Kucha & English Language Teaching
I saw my first Pecha Kucha over three years ago. It was when I was working at Universidad Andrés Bello at Campus Casona in Santiago with the students in the English Pedagogy program. I admit I’ve been fascinated by “Pecha Kucha” ever since that first time. I remember being very impressed by the performance I watched. There were a number of reasons for this. For now, let me share with you why I find Pecha Kucha to be so impressive and fascinating as a presentation technique.
Firstly, when we speak of our first time doing something enjoyable, it’s always a good feeling. We like what we like, we know what we like, and because of that, we return often, to what we like.
As you can tell by now, I like Pecha Kucha.
Secondly, its principles are easy to understand and apply. It’s fast, it’s efficient, it’s effective, it’s collaborative, it’s visual, it’s easy to prepare, it’s fun. However, it does require practice, lots of it, to do this really well. Practice, oh what a sweet word in the ears of any EFL teacher. Students practicing what they are going to say, again and again, going over their own words, to speak about images they themselves have selected. Volumes of practice, huge quantities of practice, helping the students to achieve the eventual automaticity that is the hallmark of mastery. Of all the principles of the Pecha Kucha, the most important principle is this: images are powerful. Images convey meaning and emotions. In fact, the whole range of the human experience can be conveyed by images. For example, think of the images left on the walls of caves by cave men. No one needs a cave man to verbalize what you are seeing. You feel it – through your eyes – to your brain – to your emotions. It’s visual storytelling. That’s what the Pecha Kucha is, visual literacy in its purest form…
The Spelling Bee for EFL Teachers [Paperback]
Spelling is the Cinderella of language learning. Ask a teacher how to teach spelling, and the answer will most likely be echoed by students: Read books. PAy attention to words. Notice them. While knowing words is important, what can be done to spell unknown words is the larger question. This book will take a look at both the spelling of known and unknown words, and be an experiential account of the author’s encounter with spelling as both a learner and a teacher of English as a Foreign Language.
This book is dedicated to my family, and their families, and their families yet to be. On countless occasions I’ve said to them: “One day I will write our story.” This time it is I who again make the promise, “One day, I will write our story”. Like all writers, I have no clue if the promise will ever be kept, yet I must admit, I enjoy writing for you. More importantly, I have the aspiration that you will find things in my writing with which you can identify. In this way, you my brother, Charlie, and you, my sisters, Linda, Kathy and Bernice, will become heirs to a shared memory of days gone by, days present, and days yet to come. More importantly, the memory will live beyond us, beyond our days, and beyond our time. And that is well as it should be. Thus, this is the reason I write for you. Again, it has been my pleasure to write the treasured and shared memory, poetically, personally, for you.
