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Teaching Guide: The emotions

Author: Abel Segund Jaraba Mestra – Description: This plan is very useful to help students to understand each other feelings and emotions. It also will help students to feel compassion and empathy toward others. Students will be exposed to vocabulary and language structures in a very nice and smooth way and they will finally use them in short conversations simulating real life.

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Teaching Guide: Natural places

Author: Julia Angélica Zuleta Roldán – Description: This plan gives teacher and students the opportunity to know natural places in different parts of Colombia, especially those which are closer to their homes. It is a way to encourage students to love nature, enjoy the beauty of Colombian landscapes and the importance of taking care of them. Also, students can deepen and strengthen the environmental care awareness.

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Teaching Guide: Colombia a Country of Wonders

Author: Clara Inés Azuero Bernal – Description: This lesson plan gives the students the opportunity to expand structures and vocabulary related to nature: weather, touristic places, food, activities to do, flora, wildlife, culture, advice to protect these places through nice activities in a real context. It can also be useful to promote tourism in Colombia- specially in Huila

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Teaching Guide: Conservation

Author: Magda Vasquez Ramirez – Description: This lesson plan gives the students a chance to know more about the biodiversity that Earth has. It also encourages students to take actions, no matter how small are. It includes interactions among Ss and they could share many thoughts as well as practicing about interesting topics.

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Teaching Guide: Common preventable diseases

Author: Adriana Ojeda Alvarez – Description: This lesson plan provides a path to practice vocabulary regarding diseases in context. It also fosters vocabulary acquisition to convey meaning and understanding in the basis of task-based approach. Thus, it is useful to contextualize students based on their own real situation to achieve meaningful learning. Moreover, it gives support in terms of assessing as an ongoing process that has been grounded in formative practices.

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Teaching Guide: How to be a good citizen

Author: Claudia Raquel Tabares Ortega – Description: This plan will be useful for helping students to reflect upon their citizenship, considering their duties and rights (rules) for being part of a community. In this lesson plan the teacher will find strategies to promote ideas sharing regarding citizenships themes.

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Teaching Guide: Around the world

Author: Lady Astrid Garcia Romero – Description: This lesson plan helps to identify vocabulary about the weather, season and activities through flashcards and simple activities to improve speaking in our students.

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Teaching Guide: Showing the touristic places of our city

Author: Dilsa Judith Calderón Zubieta – Description: This task plan gives the students the role as a central part of the class, it allows students work with their context so they can find the usefulness of English in real life. In addition, it allows you to create a good teaching-learning atmosphere in which interaction is the clue (teacher-students, students-students, students-community). It gives the students the opportunity to know more about them, their context and more about you as their teacher.

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Teaching Guide: Health

Author: Mónica Rubiano Puentes – Description: This plan gives students the possibility to think about their routines, to analyse if the practices they do are healthy. Also, it gives to students the opportunity to learn about healthy physical routines and communicate their ideas about the topic, and for teacher it’s important to know their students’ healthy habits.
It also gives teachers the possibility to assess their students’ level. It would be useful for teachers and interesting for students in rural education contexts

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Teaching Guide: Saving Energy

Author: María Isabel Gamboa Corrales – Description: This lesson will provide a non-conventional way to work with students on a relevant topic as it is saving energy; it will also reveal diverse ways of assessing students’ progress and understanding. In addition to the previous, it contains different moments which approach the diversity in the classrooms. The steps are given sequentially, so the different moments of the lesson are very clear and connected with the previous parts.

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Teaching Guide: Teenagers

Author: Yasmira Díaz Yepes – Description: This lesson plan is designed to develop communication skills in students, specifically reading, writing and speaking skills. This plan has as its central theme some problems that young people face today, such as bullying, smoking, and drug use. The general objective is for students to learn to give advice on these problem situations.

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Teaching Guide: Environment

Author: Jorge Eliecer Cardona Cardona – Description: This plan provides students a chance to know about reading strategies such as SCANNING and its usefulness in increasing reading skill levels. It can also be a good way to assess students´ level of reading comprehension. In addition, it is a good chance to apply some of Classroom Assessment Techniques learnt throughout the Inspiring Teachers workshop and check their effectiveness in empowering teacher´s lesson planning.

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