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SIGNIFICANT LEARNING ACCOMMODATION How to work according to Ministry of Education "Programación Educativa Individual".          Written by Licda. Patricia Mauricio Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Dear Collegues: One of the most delicate mandatory process, according to the 7600 Law, is the formulation of a pedagogic instrument, that serves as a guide of contents, methodologies and goals to facilitate learning, to all those students who, because of different reasons, need to adequate to their competence level, the formal program or syllabus. Ministry of Education calls this Instrument, “Programación Educativa Individual”. It is not easy to design this instrument. It is necessary to follow certain steps and to cover different aspects to design a technical, valuable and applicable instrument, that fits and fulfill students particular learning needs, intellectual capabilities and give real support to the stud...

POWER POINT, ZOOM , YOU TUBE AND BLOGGER A mixture of virtual tools to connect teachers and students. Taken from Google Images. Written by Licda. Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Introduction. How often is it possible to be benefit by the gift of learning to be able to use properly the difficult virtual tools? The experience was challenging… my classmates and I had to do an effort to complete the assigned tasks. Some of us finished soon, but some others took more time. The generation gap was evident during this learning experience. But it deserved the effort, the attention and the compromise. The experience was in benefit of our professional development and at the same time in benefit of our students. The tasks were done and accomplished the goals. The rest is to be engaged with the compromise with ourselves to keep on practicing, researching and improving the way we teach and the instruments we use....

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN A simple sample with resources included. Designed with Paint Program Images Taken from Google Images Written by Licda. Patricia Mauricio EFL teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Introduction: This instrument is a very simple one. It helps the teacher to be clear on what to do and how to do it when planning. It is a previous step before writing a formal planning instrument that can guide on what virtual tools it is possible to use in every stage of the lessons.         The following Instructional Design was written to work the topic of Daily Routines with students at the 3 rd Level in Primary School.         I hope it can be useful for you and fulfill the teaching and learning needs of your lessons and class. Sincerely,  Teacher Pata. The teacher for you: Easy and Fun. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN. Topic:...

T HE  JOYFUL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL BY USING WEB 2.0 AND VIRTUAL TOOLS Created Using www.Fotor.com Images taken from Google Images Written and Designed by Licda. Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Introduction. If someone had ever told me that I was going to design learning materials that involved the use of virtual tools, I would have answered that for me it would be impossible because of my age and my lack of training about it. But, I am here at this point of my professional formation, discovering that with the correct guidance and practice, it is possible to improve and evolve toward the use of technology and virtual tools, and go hand in hand with the new useful, meaningful, interesting and colorful forms to teach English as a Foreign Language. SoundCloud, is one of the virtual tools that I am learning to use to produce my own teaching materials and to train my students about ...

"I  AM THE EARTH" Image Taken from Google Images                                                                                                                                       Designed By:    Licda. Patricia Mauricio & Licda. María José Miranda About the Designers:  Licda. Patricia Mauricio                                                     ...

LISTENING PRACTICE # 1 BASIC PERSONAL INFORMATION LEVEL : 4th. GRADE Designed by EFL Teacher Patricia Mauricio Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto. Text and Image Taken from:  New Headway - Beginner Student Book Oxford University Press - First Edition - page 16     "Miguel and Glenna da Costa" INSTRUCTIONS: 1. You are going to listen to a description about Miguel and Glenna da Costa. 2. Listen to the description as many times as you want and need. 3. Then, answer the questions according to what you understood. 4. Do not forget to SEND the questionnaire with your answers. Cargando...

EFL Teaching and Loti-Framework,  Slide-Share, Fotor and Blogger. Designed with Fotor.com by: Patricia Mauricio Images taken from Google Images Written by Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto     Introduction. Offering Virtual Learning to my students implies the capability to know the combination of different virtual instruments to apply efficiently and effectively virtual teaching. The more a teacher uses the virtual instruments, the more ability and knowledge about them, the teacher can develop.  In this sense, It was offered to the students in the last session, several virtual instruments. The first one was Loti-framework. This instrument was designed to meassure the different levels of knowledge and implementation of technology and virtual instruments in the teaching process. It allows teachers to assess themselves by using the framework. The other virtual resources that were give...

  SCOOP.IT   A virtual instrument for professional development Taken from:https://www.scoop.it/media-kit Written by Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto This website could be useful to my professional development because it allows me to collect and organize by myself, pages like boards with specific content based on topics I am interest on. According to the description that is given in this web site, it also allows the professionals to share their own opinions and thoughts on the content posted in the Scoop-it page. The contact with other professionals that are interested in the same field of knowledge or topic than me, can benefit myself because my own knowledge can be enriched by exchanging with different professionals that offer their own perspectives and sources. This way, I can keep updated in the field I am working on and keep on growing professionally. The fact is that I learnt in th...

BEING OR NOT BEING ... A COUCH POTATO . Written and designed by Patricia Maurcio Vásquez Ministry of Education EFL Teacher Educative Region of Coto Taken from: https://www.wellness4ky.org/physical-activity-pyramid/   LISTENING # 1:  WHAT TO DO? Cargando... LISTENING # 2 :  "A COUCH POTATO"   Cargando... Additional visualizations of listening exercises . Questionnaire 5 from Patricia Mauricio Questionnaire 4 from Patricia Mauricio

Virtual Instruments to enrich  Teaching  and Learning Process. Taken from: https://achievevirtual.org/infographic-evolution-of-virtual-education/ Written by Patricia Mauricio EFL teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto. Virtual Instruments to enrich my work as a teacher. One of the most important things I have learned is the fact that it is necessary to keep on constant professional growing to enable myself to become a better teacher to enrich and multiply the impact of my teaching on my students. They deserve the opportunity to receive the best I can give them. And because we are in the "Virtual Era", the improvement means to face the evolution toward to become a  better teacher using virtual environments to benefit my teaching and benefit my students learning.             Under this scope, the use of “ Feedly ” represents for me an excellent instrument. By Using this tool, ...

MY WORLD . Using Fotor.com Designed by Patricia Mauricio Written by Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Using Pictures as Teaching Resources. The picture presented in this Post, was designed in this web site:   https://www.fotor.com/ . I can think in 3 important reasons to work with this tool: 1. Images are very important when teaching English to children. The pictures can facilitate the learners a base to develop their speaking skill by referring to them with short messages written on them. 2. Using images can become a way to promote meaningful learning among children, because they will feel attached to the topics by using the pictures they selected by their own. 3. Designing this type of instruments, like collages of images, can facilitate teachers to develop a topic following the sequence of the collage, so the students have both the graphic sequence and the spoken input. This resource c...