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L’ENSENYAMENT DE L’ANGLÈS A L’EDUCACIÓ INFANTIL I PRIMÀRIA

Name:Cesc CornetSchool: Puig i Gairalt (Hospitalet de LLobregat)Grades you are teaching: 4th, 5th and 6thYears of experience teaching English:3 years

My expectations for this courseI hope to share my knowledge with different collegues around Catalonia. Besides, to learn and to improve my way of teaching English as

a second language.

My concerns and needsI’m not so good at…

I think that I’m not so good at distinguish what is important and what is secondary when you teach

a foreign language. Perhaps, everything is important.

My personal skillsI’m good at…

I really don’t know what I am good at, but taking into acount that I had been working as an actor

a lot of years, I think that I know how to comunicate with my pupils, using my body

languge when it’s necessary. I’m also good at using different ways to teach, trying to introduce

as many fun activities as possible in order to learn and have fun at the same time.


Name:Virginia Moreno González

School: Escola Pilarin Bayés (Sant Quirze del vallès)

Grades you are teaching: 3rd to 6th

Years of experience teaching English:12 years

My expectations for this course

•To get new methodologies •To learn activities from other colleagues•To refresh my English


•Creating new material•Doing speaking activities and evaluating them•Playing games in class•Classroom displays


•New technologies.•Speaking English•Telling stories


Name: Monica Requena LópezSchool: Montpedrós (Sta. Coloma de Cervelló)Grades you are teaching: P5 to 6thYears of experience teaching English: 12 years

My expectations for this courseI want that this course give me the oportinity and resources to find more dinamic and interesting material to do my classes more attractive and interesting for children. The learning of a language it’s difficult to teach because it isn’t the mother tongue and children are not interested in a foreign language. For them it is an obligation


-WritingI want to improve my writing and trying to find attractive and dinamic material to teach to show that learning a language is not an obligation it is a necessity and it could be very funny


I think I’m not really good at any skill but pepole say me I’m good at:

- Speaking-Listening-Reading


Name: Ariadna School: Joan MiróGrades you are teaching: P4, P5 and the first and the second year pupils too.Years of experience teaching English: This is my first year as an English teacher.

My expectations for this courseI hope to find ways to improve my English teaching skills, and take advantage of the

opportunity to learn from the experience of teachers who have been teaching English for a

long time.


I would like to discover more strategies to do comprehensible activities in the science project, with the aim of improving the students’ learning.


Capturing the attention of the pupils in a stimulating way, so they experience learning like an interactive game between the teacher and the

students. Consequently, their learning is optimized.


Name: Mireia Mata Ginesta

School: La Valira

Grades you are teaching: P3-P4-P5- 1st-2nd

Years of experience teaching English: This is the first year.

My expectations for this courseI hope to learn resources to use in my

English classes. I would like to know how to motivate my students.


Telling tales. Singing songs.Inventing games.


Dealing with children.Organizing the classes. Working in team.


Name: Ernest Sitjà

School: Joan Salvat Papasseit

Grades you are teaching: 3r, 5è i 6è

Years of experience teaching English: 23

My expectations for this courseChange the way I do my classes. Make them funnier and active.Make easier for my students to learn a foreign language.Add resources to my classes.Be able to attend diversity of levels and rhythms at the same class.


I can’t do a class attending different rhythms or levels at the same moment.I tend to do directive classes. That bores me and my students.


I can turn an activity into a different one easily (adapt or transform ideas)I can build transversal activities involving different areas.I can organize classes using computers. I can do all classes in English all time. I can adapt my vocabulary and sentences to their level.


Name: Tat Sureda

School: Marta Mata (Girona)

Grades you are teaching: 5th

Years of experience teaching English: 1,5


Sharing concerns which being a foreign language teacher involves (specially when your mother language is not what you’re teaching). Learning from other people and experiences, becoming more confident with what I am doing. This course as learning resources but also as a meeting point for sharing ideas and concerns.


I’ve been in UK only for short holidays. I’ve always felt I should know more and better (for ex. the typical expressions a native would use with their pupils, but I ignore them). That means for me lack of self confidence. And I’m quite bad at listening competence. An other concern: being tied up with the book and the need to complete it. My accent may be more “Germanish” than English.


Why is this space bigger than the others? Well, people say I have quite good vocabulary. I try to play some jokes at class in order to catch my pupils’ attention. When I was a teenager I used to hate English and I know how horrible it can be for them. So I try not to put much pressure on them and show the subject as a challenge through which they can communicate in an other way. It’s a good thing when you get them hung loose. However, when you have to finish the book, it’s difficult not to fall in the hurry-up-book-routine. I try to introduce some games in class too, specially when I work with ½ group.


Name:Carme Vallverdú

School:Marta Mata

Grades you are teaching: Cicle Superior and P4

Years of experience teaching English:15 years (being tutora at the same time)


I hope to learn new strategies to help learning and to distinguish the important

issues to work about. It’s important for me to share experiences and feellings with

other teachers.


I have some difficulties to organize all the materials and resources I’d like to use at class

and combine them with the text book. I’m worried sometimes I get hurried.


I think it’s a good thing that I enjoy preparing plays and easy shows. Children like it and

feel motivated.


Name: Gemm Casas

School: Mare de Déu de Patrocini

Grades you are teaching: P-4 to 5th level

Years of experience teaching English:0

My expectations for this courseI hope that this course offers me new ways

of teaching English.I would like to share resources and

experiences with my partners.


I need to improve in all of things I’m really worried about if I'm doing my classes

in the proper way.


I’m a persuasive and responsible person. I like doing things perfect. I’m good in

organization things and events. I'm also good in new technologies like PDI.


Name:ANNA COROMINAS

School: JOSEP PALLEROLA I ROCA

Grades you are teaching: 4th-5th-6th

Years of experience teaching English: 9

My expectations for this course-Open my mind to teach differently and still get good results in: “Competències” , tests, finishing all units in book, …-Create a list of web pages with resources: worksheets, listening examples, videos, …-Enjoy planning and learning -Getting ideas from other colleagues’ good practices.


-Being too strict with the curriculum. Sometimes I stop myself from teaching differently because of my kids behaviour or the preassure of good results.-Time. It is difficult to fit all my ideas into 3 hours a week English lessons-I´d like to find readings and listening activities leveled for ESL students.


-Planning and organizing.-Learning from others’ practices.-I believe that learning English is essencial nowadays. I try to pass on the enjoyment of being able to understand and communicate with almost the whle world.


Name: Cinta Gonzalez

School: Les Pinediques

Grades you are teaching: P5, 1st and 6th

Years of experience teaching English: 17 years


I think that with course I will learn different ways of foccusing on language when teaching English because people enroled in the course work in different schools, have different experience and a different background. All very enriching!


I’m not so good at using new technologies and I find it very difficult to find activities that really enjoy them for making them speak.


I’m good at languages and I easily find the way to make my students understand what I’m saying (with examples, refrasing, with visual support, acting, gesturing,…).I’m also good at organising activities that fit in the programming but that are not class-like activities (corners, workshops, English Days…). I’m enthusiastic on what I’m doing, I love teaching and I love teaching English.


Name: Olga V. González de Heredia G.School: Pompeu FabraGrades you are teaching: P4,P5, CI.Years of experience teaching English: 2 and a half.


Knowing useful methodologies Knowing practical resources

Improve myself in classCLIL


Writing skillsLittle experience

Planification when diversity (big groups with different needs)

Evaluation


Communication skillsSigning

DramatizationsExpressiveness

Classroom managementNew Technologies

Looking for resources


Name:Lidia OrtegaSchool:Escola Sant JosepGrades you are teaching:3rd and 4th grades Years of experience teaching English: 4 years




I expect…- To share experiences.- To improve my teaching skills.- To get new ideas.- To discover different resources.

- Organising my ideas.- Formally planning the activities I want to do in class.

- Perceiving the different possibilities an activity can have.- Creating activities for different educative purposes.


Name: Montse Bermejo GarcíaSchool: Amor de DiosGrades you are teaching: 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th.Years of experience teaching English: 18.


Get in touch with other teachers and other ways of teaching, sharing problems and experiences.When you have been teaching for so long, probably you’re getting some bad manners. I want to catch up, learn new technologies and improve my methodology in order to keep my pupils interested , learning as much English as possible while they are having fun.

- My concerns and needs

I’m not so good at…

-Using new technologies.-Organizing communication activities in the

classroom.- Attending to diversity (too many levels in the same classroom and too litle time to work with

each one of them).


- “Connecting” with pupils. I like teaching and I try to make my classes as much

funny as possible.

- Listening to children’s suggestions and trying to adapt them to the class.

--Providing different material and ways of explaining the different topics we are

working on.


Name: Núria Martínez

School: Vallmanya School

Grades you are teaching: 2nd and 3rd level.

Years of experience teaching English: from 1993 up to now.




-To share experiences and activities with other English teacher and to know new ways of English teaching.-To refresh methodology of English teaching.

-Planning and organizing tasks.-Creating activities and preparing the material for developing it.-Telling stories.

-Planning the time of a lesson.-Registing, day by day, the process of the pupils. I’m not so persevering in this aspect as I’ll like.


Name: PATRICIA RODRÍGUEZ

School: ESCOLA MIRADES

Grades you are teaching: P4 TO 6th

Years of experience teaching English:6 YEARS




- Learn and apply new methodologies to the ELT.- To improve and update as a teacher.- To be in touch with the English language with people. (something that is not as mush as usual than I would like)- Share resources and experiences with other English teachers.

- I need new and updated ideas to make my pupils learn English.- I want to use new methodologies because I think that (not always) I’m a little traditional-I’m not as regular. I change frequently and I don’t use so much the routines with children, I mean I don't act always in the same way.- I’m not so creative when I’m doing class as I would like.- I don’t dedicate enough time.

-I’m close to my students while I’m disciplinary, that makes them to be comfortable with the teacher and with the language, at the time they respect you.- I’m always opened to new ideas and critics to improve my teaching.- Although I don’t like so much teaching preschool pupils, I’m very expressive and a good actress and it helps me to be a little bit good teaching them. They pay attention and learn a lot.- I’m organized and perfeccionist (well this could be a concern…)


Name:Gemma Coll

School:La Salle

Grades you are teaching:P3 to 4th





-Learn new methodologies like CLIL, stories,songs….-Look at different sites than can be used to teach english-Get to know new internet resources-Explore websitesand their possibilities for the teaching of english.-New methodologies and idees to manage the class: ideas of cooperative learning for example

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-I’ve got a lot of patience-I try to lift up students spirit -I’m positiveI’ve got good sense of humor_

- computers mannaged-it’s difficult for me to be creative-I don’t trust on my own ideas.-work in a team and use my own initiative,I also think the others idees are better

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Name: Núria RieraSchool: CEIP Estel

Grades you are teaching: P4, 5th & 6th grades


My expectations for this course to hear and learn form others’ experienceto get some advice about teaching CLIL

to share classroom management strategiesto learn about NLP

to help others with my experience if possible

To hear from different methodologies and resources

My concerns and needs/ I’m not so good at…Project based work

Innovating in methodologyUsing ICT in the English class

Classroom management strategies in group workFinding ressources for teaching very young

learnersTrying new assessment methods


Team workEngaging children in class

Organizing dynamic lessonsInteraction with children


Name: Marta MorenoSchool: MontbaigGrades you are teaching: First Cycle of Primary Education.Years of experience teaching English: 6 years.

My expectations for this course:

Learn different ways to do assessment.Resources to put in practise in my class

Ways to achieve the silence


AssessmentGroup dynamics

Routines


DrammaArts and Crafts


Name: Nuria Gómez García

School: Escola Joan Miró

Grades you are teaching: 2nd level

Years of experience teaching English: 18 years


•Learn more resources for my english class and for my teaching.•Share ideas with other teachers.•Find new points of view of English and new methodologies.


•My fluency in the language. (many years teching very young learners)


•I am always trying to improve my knowedleges and searching new ways of teaching and new resources.

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