Ramadan party
The first thing I thought when I received the timetable for the master in TESOL was:
“All my savings for just 10 hours of class per week”
I did not tell anybody, of course, but after one month my thoughts are changing and I really appreciate to have ´enough` time to read and reflect on it from my own teaching and learnin experience. I would also like to comment on the workshops as this is something which it is not usual in Spain, especially in my classes. Being a teacher in the university, the students are used to receive lectures from teachers and they do not work in groups; I imagine myself imparting this kind of classes and my students saying something like:
`We could do it in the bar just having a beer´
or I imagine them talking in Catalan about other soccer or the last look of Britney whatever. as I think that in Spain our students and even the teachers are more used to teacher-centred classrooms.
Anyway I am enjoying most of the ideas of the workshops and I think how to apply it in my classes. So, what I thought is that
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jigsaw reading in groups
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oral presentations to the other students in the classroom.
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reflection in groups again
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sharing our reflections with the whole classroom and the teacher.
