tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977088672693305125.post8037029325488374597..comments2023-12-03T08:50:17.586+00:00Comments on This is how we learn Spanish...: 10-minute teachersErzsiCulshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740231163333927395noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977088672693305125.post-89538208850132240922014-09-08T13:11:49.731+01:002014-09-08T13:11:49.731+01:00Tu m'as inspiré! Je vais essayer...Tu m'as inspiré! Je vais essayer...Nadine Chadierhttp://www.accentlanguages.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977088672693305125.post-50764888271439660622014-03-18T18:16:12.130+00:002014-03-18T18:16:12.130+00:00Thanks Erzi ¡It's a great idea! It's a pit...Thanks Erzi ¡It's a great idea! It's a pity that we only have lessons of 45 -50 minutes more or less. I used to work as an English teacher in Spain and I used to have 4 hours a week with each group ...Can you imagine? Yo can do miracles ha,haha. Unfortunately here, we only have 1 lesson a week so I agree that we constantly struggle fo fit the current topics activities. I try to recap previous vocabulary or structures every week. I have a routine called "El reto de la semana" in which I ask questions in relation to a video, picture, poem (whatever you would like to use) and children have to guess the answers. We use music, silly props (glasses and hairband) in order to make it funny. To be picked the children have to show me a silly face (pretending that they are thinking) and then "Los responsables" (Special helpers) decide who is going to do it. If the child says the correct answer, he can get a "ticket de rifa" for the prize we give at the end of the lesson. It takes 5-10 minutes ...it's not enough but I think we are trying our best. <br />I think your idea is really good and obsiouly enocurage children to think and practise Spanish '¡Olé Erszi! ¡Tú lo vales! .-)<br /><br />Muchas gracias por el post. <br /><br />ciaoooooo :-)Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00431343793858309473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977088672693305125.post-80250453939726964902014-03-17T22:19:45.877+00:002014-03-17T22:19:45.877+00:00I have just read the blog post, it is fantastic! H...I have just read the blog post, it is fantastic! How interesting! I will have to read all the other links at the end of the post as well. I wish languages were taught more than once a week. I know that ideally the class teachers should practise with the children but they can't find the time or lack the confidence. I will have to extend the 10-minute teachers' work to do an extra session during the week when there is no Spanish. Also, my post only refers to one class where the lesson is 60 minute long so we have enough time, but I teach 30 minute lessons and 45 minute ones where I constantly struggle to fit the current topic activities. <br />Thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it!ErzsiCulshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09740231163333927395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977088672693305125.post-38449055560401281732014-03-17T21:25:37.696+00:002014-03-17T21:25:37.696+00:00What a super idea! I used to work with a maths te...What a super idea! I used to work with a maths teacher who did a lot of research on short-term and long-term memory. He said that what we had to strive to do was to commit all the language (in our case) to the long-term memory from where it could be dug back out when needed. This can only be done by frequent revisiting and repetition. He used to devote 50 mins of each hour to the new stuff and then the last 10 mins to going over and refreshing something they'd done before. I tried it with KS3 in the past and it does work. Heather Rendall's work treats a similar theme - http://changing-phase.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/language-show-live-2012-short-sharp.html Clare Seccombehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15725513766993353657noreply@blogger.com