Project Based Learning

Teaching Guide: Good citizenship practices

Author: Rafael Eduardo Acevedo Rivera – Description: This plan gives students a chance to use their knowledge in a practical way about modal verbs like should. Students can be an active actor of change in school by promoting good citizenship practices that other children in the institution can consider and apply to construct a better community. Besides, this lesson plan has plenty of activities that can measure students’ skills in different grades of difficulty by using formative and also summative assessment.

Teaching Guide: Construction of peace

Author: Carlos Eduardo Marín Orozco – Description: This plan helps students to use the integrated skills (speaking, reading, listening and writing) as well as new vocabulary related to the construction of democracy and peace through positive facts. It also allows students to improve their self-esteem, to see other´s qualities and values, and to reinforce their knowledge about previous topics already taught in class.

Teaching Guide: Eating disorders

Author: María Cristina Pineda Arboleda – Description: This plan will give the teacher the opportunity to transversalize some subjects in one topic and; on the other hand, students can make different task that will be in a complete prevention plan at the end of the class. Also, the teacher can adapt or modify the context (rural or urban); Finally, the implementation of different types of formative assessment can be found.

Teaching Guide: This is me and my community

Author: Diana Rocío Muñoz Hernández – Description: This lesson plan gives students the opportunity to foster cultural knowledge of the world throughout the creation of videos. Besides, it gives teachers a chance to integrate English grammar topics to the students’ real life throughout meaningful projects. All in all, this lesson plan is a simple and fun way to have the students engaged with the learning process while interacting and knowing their own community.

Teaching Guide: I love my Job

Author: MAYRA YOLIMA SERRANO GUERRERO – Description: This plan aims to provide an environment where the students can begin the selection of their profession from the beginning of high school and not wait until they reach the eleventh grade.
The teacher is a guide for the classroom in the construction of the life project of their students in a simple and practical way.
The students create spaces of interaction with the language based on their interests, needs and personal projections. They are protagonists of their own life building.

Teaching Guide: Cultural Colombian groups

Author: Jennifer Cuellar Cuellar – Description: This lesson plan encourages students to use English in different interactions in order to promote production, critical thinking and teamwork, with the topic: learning about cultural Colombian groups. At the end, a strategy is suggested to assess your student`s progress.

Teaching Guide: Health

Author: Carmen Libia Beltrán Bravo – Description: This plan helps students to recognize positive and negative eating habits. By implementing it, you can share with the students new strategies for them to learn. This plan also provides tools to improve the learning and knowledge.

Teaching Guide: Good citizen

Author: Carmen Libia Beltrán Bravo – Description: This plan helps students to recognize characteristics of a good citizen. By implementing it, you can share with the students new strategies for innovating your English Class. This plan also provides tools to improve the learning and knowledge.

Teaching Guide: Common diseases in my region

Author: Indira Rolong Asuncion – Description: This plan is useful to practice how to give recommendations when talking about the main diseases that affect the region where the students live. It is a topic that can be related to science classes to make transversalization.

Teaching Guide: Value of Local Cultures

Author: Liliana Patricia Gomez Briceño – Description: This plan gives students the opportunity to learn about basic math vocabulary and some prepositions of place. It also gives you a useful tool to assess your students by implementing self-assessment and peer- assessment. Moreover this project plan is a nice option to apply the interdisciplinary knowledge between Math and English to sixth graders. In addition, in here you will find how CAT strategies are used as well as and some suggestions to teach English outdoors.

Teaching Guide: Having healthy practices

Author: Ana Ismenia Gutiérrez Salas – Description: This project plan offers the teachers the possibility to know about their students’ healthy habits. It is also flexible for different language levels. In this case, it is planned for challenging the students to use English in outdoor contexts around the school. I hope you enjoy this adventure and learn a lot during the road.

Teaching Guide: Fashion

Author: Dubys Arroyo – Description: This plan guides students to participate in a project and work cooperatively by developing different entertaining activities about fashion. It also allows students to learn different vocabulary and expressions related to fashion.

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