Going towards being a Professional Teacher

Warwick, L. (2016). The use of assessment criteria in classroom speaking tasks. Research             Notes, 66, pp. 16-21. Cambridge: Cambridge English Language Assessment.             Retrieved from www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/368333-research-notes-66.pdf         The author, teacher and teacher trainer at Bell International College, exposes the results of an action research carried out with nine students from different nationalities, all of them males between 18 and 43 years old. The aim of the investigation was to reflect upon the tools students use to assess their speaking skills and to generate strategies for formative self-assessment. The research comprised two phases, in the first one the assessment rubric was presented to the students after the task while in the second one it was delivered before the activity. Both the teacher and the group of students completed the assessment forms. The result was similar in the point of view of the teacher but differed as the s

    More than a Lecture Steve Jobs, who delivered the lecture in a degree celebration at the University of Stanford, was a CEO in Apple and Pixar Animation. In the video Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address from Stanford University’s Youtube channel, started his speech  revealing that he had never graduated from college. Therefore, Stanford's celebration was the nearer he had been to a similar event like that. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the three stories he included about his life in his speech. In his discourse, Jobs called the first story connecting the dots in which he discussed the reasons for having dropped college. His ungraduated biological mother decided to give him in adoption to graduated parents. When he started a course of studies in college, he did not see the value of attending boring lessons. Therefore, he dropped them and went through group tutorials during what he claimed as the hardest financial stage in his life. In one of the

ANALYSIS Analysis of In- Text Citations               The aim of this written passage is to analyze the use of in-text citations used by Dolk & den Hertog (2008) in their acticle “Narratives in Teacher Education” based on the theory provided in American Psychological Association (APA) Manual (2010), 6 th edition.              In this article, Dolk & den Hertog (2008) paraphrase with their own words phrases from other authors, therefore they include the surname of the referenced authors followed by the year of publication into brackets as shown in the following example:             As Freudenthal (1991) stated, teaching and didactical experiences result from observing learning processes.            Another way of paraphrasing is mentioning the author in an indirect way, then the name of the referenced author and the year of the publication are both inserted in the text between parenthesis. An example of this is:            In our conception design research, or deve

SUMMARY  Narratives in Teacher Education                           Narratives in teacher education is an informative article written by Dolk & den Hertog (2008)  which accounts for a learning experience developed in The Netherlands. It aims to bridge the  gap between theory and experience in teacher education colleges. The authors claim that by means of this approach, prospective teachers are stimulated to construct their own knowledge, observing and investigating into real classroom contexts and bringing their own experiences into their training.                The learning experience which the authors refer to is a multimedia interactive learning environment (MILE). This environment brings 70 hours of mathematics teaching and contains videos of real lessons plus communication tools for learners and journals as well. Since it is divided in short fragments, prospective primary teachers are allowed to watch them as many times as they require and later intervene in enr

What about me? My name is Myriam Beatriz Tielve. I live in Ciudad Evita, Buenos Aires. I am married and I have two daughters and a son. Although I have been teaching English for 41 years, both in private schools of English and at schools, I had the opportunity to finish my studies by distance education in 1915. In this way, I could get one of my goals in life at last. After a gap year to recover my energy of spending long hours in front of my computer, I have decided to start this new adventure of "Going towards being a professional teacher", that is the reason why I am again studying in CAECE (Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas) University. M y aim is learning more about this fascinating world of education and being ready to teach these new generations who demand teachers to be creative and updated with technology so as to provide them with the best tools possible. I would like to share with you one of my beliefs:  " This world is for those who are b