Tuesday`s work Estonia

Tuesday.

As a group we learnt how to create a blog and how to include the rest of the group so we were all able to access it. No one in the group had created a blog prior to this session. We, as student teachers need to understand how to make a blog, if we are to be able to teach children in the correct form.

Later on we analysed two videoclips, both were literature based. It was interesting becauce we discovered that we have to be very aware of the material (the videos) we use in our teaching. If we choose videos that are hard to understand, the pupils may become confused or find it hard to concerntrate so they may not pay attention, even finding that they are having difficulties in school. This could be very bad for their self confidence.
 One of the videos was based on the  informal spoken language, however if the children were expected to use written language we have to  be continuly careful when we become fully trained teachers. The second video we analysed was  more child orientated, which incoporated a fully quilified teacher speaking in basic terms about the grammatical term adjectives. Because the teacher was jolly we felt that the children would be able to relate to him without becoming demotivated.  

These are the two videos that we discussed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-713hPidync

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScUb08F7os&feature=plcp&context=C47c412fVDvjVQa1PpcFPq-fCvv2pO4zJU2jw7O_L7dcfov2uJVvA%3D