Motivation: Do you dare to dream?

Motivation and confidence may be easier to sustain by setting short term goals and recognising their attainments. It is important to progress in our learning process in whatever we dream. Steps to climb our objectives in our learning process in order to enhance our thought and knowledge. It could be important also for our cognition process about foreign languages learning because we have different learning styles and we learn in different way and skills. Then as a teachers we need to know what our pupils need to learn them and how many steps or levels are necessary to attain the objective: linguistic competences. Such a writting, listening, reading and speaking; in order to express in different contexts and situations. Summary, let's go, this is your moment. Go on!!

The learning brain

Teenagers are our opportunity

Adolescents are not a problem, they are an opportunity. It is an opportunity for change, it is a chance for human beings. I like thinking in this sense. It is for that I want to be a teacher for teenagers. I recommend to introduce us in the metacognition knowledge. It is great to find out how we know and think. It is absolutely fantastic new experience about learning because we must change our mind about learning process and overall, we must change our mind about adolescents. All I have learned in order to know more and more about thinking and learning in the course of Training for Teaching English has made me to encouraged and engaged to read and learn more and more about this issue. I am sure that it will be good for my future experience as a secondary teacher.

CLIL Resources and Material Creation for High Education (by Isabel Pérez)

CLIL: Content and Lenguage

In my opinion, both questions are important. If as a History or Literature teacher I want that my students learn contents about these subjects I need the lenguage to relate each other. Lenguage is in the base for communication, thoughts and creation of new knowledge. And this, without both items, is impossible, I mean. Firstly, the content, the ideas but inmediately the words or all kind of code to express our thoughts because without the fact of communication, the performance, it is nothing. Secondly, the code or the channel for communicate could be choose for the pupils or the teacher because the relationship to produce collective knowledge is more important than the lenguage or channel we choose. Finally, teenagers are starting off in their mental ability to think, to express, to relate with others and the code is necessary in order to undertand each other.

My ideal teacher

When I was young, I had a Lenguage teacher who teach me what the literature is. When I was teenager, I had a History teacher who teach me what the History is throught the Literature. Now I wish to show them how the life is throught our mind and thinking. Brain's teeneagers (from 12 to 16 years old) are ready to build up abstract knowledge. Then, they are able to think and create new knowledge. My favourite teacher showed me that in Literature there is two messages: the literal reading and the deep reading where you find the concept of life and human feelings.