Action research plan

In an action plan you have yo follow the stages of this circle

You identify the problem

You devise a plan

You implement the plan

You observe if the plan is working or not

You reflect about the plan

Problem: students don't hand in their homework on time. To see the causes of it I will ask the students to fill in a questionaire. For the moment just the English teacher is going to take part in thie action research plan.

Plan: a system of points and reward. The students will be asked randomly their homeowork and, if they have it, they will receive some points. If the students, by the end of the month, have a certain number of points, they will win a reward (it will be agreed upon between the teacher and the students)

Ways of how to become a teacher

In this chart we see the distintion between the craft and the science model. In the craft model part I wrote the knowledge you can learn by imitation and in the science model part I wrote the knowledge you actually have to study to understand it.

There are different methods to become a teacher. One is the craft model or imitation model where you learn by imitating others. Another model is the science method. In this model you have to learn a metodology, talk with other other teachers about that specific methodology and finally, create a lesson plan together.

Tweet on a theory of learning

Service Learning is in between Task-based Language Learning and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). In this method, students have to apply their skills and strategies learnt in class in a real world situation. This is an example of learning by doing. The problem with this problem is that it usually clashes with the stablished syllabus