Behind a teacher's journey

Hello fellow teachers, In today's blog, I am excited to share with you an ESL educational project that can be of help in your teaching journey.  However, I am not going to only share it with you, but I will be a little bit critical trying to fin d its strengths and weaknesses throughout a detailed analysis. This educational project is called " The History of My Family ", and it was published through the web of CEDEC (Centro Nacional de Desarrollo Curricular en Sistemas no Propietarios) and  INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado).  The project w as designed for students in the  first grade of secondary education . Before going forth with the analysis in depth, I will tell you a little bit about this project.  First of all, this project intends to improve not only the English skills of the students but also their ICT ones, as they will have to create their own blog in which they would have to submit all t...

Welcome everyone, In today's post, I am very excited to introduce a fun and dynamic way of getting to know other people. If you want your students to get to know each other, you can make use of this interactive activity in which your pupils will be able to connect with other classmates through a fun Flipped Interview. Besides getting to know their classmates, this activity will improve their TIC and creative skills along with their ability to work in teams!  To see how it actually works, my partner Álvaro and I made a Flipped Interview ourselves and I can honestly say we had heaps of fun doing it! For the video, we did not use a professional camera just a regular smartphone.  Now, before recording the video we shared a common file on Google Drive . This way we were able to write a short script about what we were going to say and what questions we were going to ask. This application was great because it eased our work as we did not have time to meet u...