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Teaching Guide: Who am I?

Author: María Benilda Cuesta Mena – Description: This plan is a significant element for teachers from Colombia. It is a plan that permits teachers to guide student’s knowledge, step by step, and provides an essential structure for learning according to students’ level and needs. As for the teacher, the lesson plan allows you to plan and organize what you want to achieve with the students in the classroom coherently. This implies making pre-practice decisions about what will be learned, what will be done and how it can be achieved in the best way.

Teaching Guide: San Pacho Celebration

Author: Bárbara Liloy de Ferrer – Description: This plan is very useful because it gives you and your students the opportunity to know about Chocoan culture. We as English teachers know that sociolinguistic competence and transversality are fundamental to the integration of the different subject matters. Furthermore, it involves culture. Besides, through this plan you can achieve an effective and productive class to work the four skills by using CATs and assess your students´ level.

Teaching Guide: Healthy physical routine

Author: Luz Elena Hurtado Giraldo – Description: This plan is useful for teachers because they can use it when the head English teacher is absent, so another teacher can give it to students. It gives teachers an opportunity to assess students` level in a transversal way and make the learning process more attractive.

Teaching Guide: Daily Routine

Author: Nataly Loaiza Grisales – Description: This Lesson plan gives students the opportunity to learn the daily routines in a visual and dynamic way, in which it is taken into account a routine based on their context. Through the class, students will have the opportunity to interact with different language skills based on their communicative level.

Teaching Guide: Solving problems

Author: Robin Yovanni Millán – Description: This activity can be useful because in all social status of our daily lives, people are getting stressed without any reason and this leads them to get involved in conflict. For this reason, students and teachers must be prepared or at least have strategies inside their classroom to mediate with these situations. In addition, students can develop a sense of self-awareness so as not to get involved in conflicts. Moreover, students feel comfortable writing their feelings and emotions and learning to express their ideas and confront others in a conflict mediation.

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: Amazing people

Author: Nancy Camargo Rodelo – Description: This plan gives the teachers the opportunity to teach in an effective and different way considering the different learning styles while engaging the students in multiples tasks. It integrates the four skills, so they can write, listen, read and speak about events related to their biographies. It also allows you to have an out-of-the-ordinary class by incorporating new strategies to assess the students’ performance and the class itself leading to improvement in classroom management and increasing motivation.

Teaching Guide: Creating Monsters

Author: Marlon Méndez – Description: This task plan integrates literature and Arts. Students have the opportunity of developing creative thinking and team work to create a monster. This is a plan that motivates students to read and enjoy literature.

Teaching Guide: Using positive Language in the classroom

Author: Mónica Lucía Rodríguez Romero – Description: This plan gives the students the possibility to talk about past actions that relate to the present time, and it also gives teachers a valuable opportunity to assess their students’ level. This plan also raises awareness about the impact people’s actions can have in the society. Finally, this plan provides teachers and students with formative assessment techniques that involve students in their learning process.

Teaching Guide: My Memories

Author: María de los Ángeles Perdomo Perdomo – Description: This lesson plan focuses on memories students have about their past experiences. Additionally, this lesson plan fosters creative thinking since students create a book. It also integrates literature and art to make learning more meaningful. Some formative assessment techniques are suggested.

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