Relaxation techniques… By Daisy Barril

The techniques about relaxation have been popular in these times; However Do we use them?

The presentation that Daisy gave us was very important for us, she started asking questions about the topic like a brainstorming then she told us about the objective of the relaxation techniques.

Nowadays, we are living in a very stressful society, but who help us?

That is why we, as teachers have to help our students from the beginning I mean in their early years with psychology and these useful relaxation techniques which the most important are deep breathing and visualization.

In terms of the presentation, Daisy was not look confident about her topic but she tried to do the best.

Games as an educational tool… By Francisca Nuñez.

When she started, she gave us a definition which was: A contest with rules, to determine a winner, develops thinking abilities.

Personally, this definition is certainty truth because when children are playing a game they get engage so, they are interested on something which is funny and at the same time develop skills.

With games you can catch the attention not only in children but also on everybody. The use of games help you in teaching grammar, engage students or make students comfortable at the beginning of the lesson.

Francisca made a brief and precise presentation which was very good to the audience because she knew about she was telling us and gave us a very interesting example of game.

Educación 2020 wants to know our opinion.

According to the article that La Tercera published, are

mentioned 3 of 15 important proposals that Educación 2020 wants to accomplish in a quality education in the next year.

But, what are they?

First, they propose the creat

ion of an international program to train principals, second, a bill about teaching professional career and finally the improvement of teacher’s status by giving an incentive for teachers of excellence or the best students who wants to be teachers.

If you recognize every point of this article they try to emphasize the training as a solid base in teachers, its means that teachers, even before they are, must have a perfect training, from the beginning, through useful tools such as giving bonus to who is best or training principals, but in international programs, which is the basic to manage schools. It means, considering these important aspect we can have the desired quality education in the year 2020.

Freedom writers

Non -Fiction film

Main characters:

§ Hilary Swank como Erin Gruwell

§ Scott Glenn como Steve Gruwell

§ Patrick Dempsey como Scott Casey

§ Imelda Staunton como Margaret Campbell

§ April Lee Hernández como Eva Benitez

§ Mario como Andre Bryant

§ Kristin Herrera como Gloria

§ Jaclyn Ngan como Sindy

§ Sergio Montalvo como Alejandro Santiago

Directed by Richard La Gravenese in 2007 freedom writers became a movie which won an award and it was based on the book “the freedom writer’s diary”: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them by the teacher Erin Gruwell, this book is a real story about Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California.

This film took place in the riots in 1992 when the wrestle among Latinos, Black and white people was never-ending.

I really like this film. First of all, the Role of the teacher is very inspired to us, because she all the time was firm with her ideas, unfortunately, at the beginning, it was not accomplish; however she could realized the students are capable to change their thoughts about the racial situation.

We, as future teachers, this kind of troubles can be come up in our classroom, nevertheless, the perseverance which the teacher had in every class to achieve the respect among them. It could be that the movie exaggerate some scenes in comparison with our country I mean, in the Chilean context, but really helps or realize that problematic students exist.

How does T.V. affect teenagers?... By Mariluz.

The video that Mariluz showed us was really engage and caught the attention in all of us because it represented the effect that we consciously do not realize, it cause action that we unconsciously do in real life such as to imitate that we watch from it, it means that T.V. can change our thoughts or the way that we confront our lifestyle.

Nowadays is a very common illness like anorexia which if you do not detect the consequences will be mortal. I also think that students are discovering themselves in every moment so, we, as a teacher should know what they are thinking or living, that is why they need our help because they are very sensitive and they do not know what the way of their life is and T.V. is one of the most influential aspects in their minds.

In general terms the presentation was interesting, engaged, well structured and useful. Mariluz made a very good job.

Management strategies... By Romina

The Micro lesson that Romina presented, has an important role in our future as teachers… Why? Because we are very closer to be in the reality, I mean inside the classroom, working with children and their behaviors so, Romina gave us a useful and practical way to manage children such as techniques which students behave when there are in class, for example when the students are very talkative the advice is: Stand up in front of them and wait till they realize what the teacher is waiting for so, the reaction is always the same, they started to get quiet and the class can begin; however there are some classes which are more difficult to control them, but that is when we have to do our labor , I mean to keep the order inside the classroom.

I really liked this topic; however her presentation, specifically, the slides were very crowded which made it boring.

Study abroad... camilo´s presentation

In terms of structure this presentation was quite good in contents; however Camilo did not realize that the images that he used as PPT were not helping to watch the information on that.

On the other hand he specified some aspect which people have to know or considered, at least, when they study abroad or the exams that we have to take to travel to another English country... For example he mentioned the amount of money which is very important because we as students is very expensive as our classmates told us when they study last year.

When Camilo talked about the standard exams, he showed us an example of TOEFL in which took much time and the presentation became too long.

Finally Camilo was self-confident when he presented because he knew very well about he was talking and he also gave us an engage presentation.