Planning next year advisory and training system at the berritzegune of Leioa

Working on listening strategies

Here you are a couple of videos that can give you some tips on listening strategies.
The first one talks about strategies such as paying attention to body language, words or tone used by the speaker. Can you think of a way of integrating these strategies in your listening activities?


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The second video is about  a Year 9 class at School B discussing the elements of good listening, using modelling, pupil discussion, exploratory talk and practice.

Video: Developing listening skills using modelling and practice

Getting teachers collaborating for the integration of language and subject

During our last meeting we dealt with listening strategies and we  did an activity based on a recording from www.factworld.info, regarding the collaboration among subject and language teachers. We tried to "kill two birds with one stone" as both topics are very significant for tthose involved in this project. You can listen to the whole recording by addressing to the the section "Café CLIL " at www.factworld.org or by clicking on the icon below

Call for 2nd year of Trilingual project

Remember that the deadline to apply for next  schoolyear Trilingual Project is next Friday, April 15th. Even those schools implementing the project during 2010-2011 will have to hand in the papers requested in the call. We will talk about this issue at the meeting tomorrow, but just in case, you can have a look at the call here (Basque) or here (Spanish).

Our next seminar session: April 12th

Before  taking a well deserved holiday, we are going to have our 6th seminar meeting at the Berritzegune of Leioa next Tuesday, April 12th. And this is our proposal  for this session:

1. CALL FOR 11-12 SCHOOLYEAR                                 
1. Aims, difficulties, questions…….
2. Table 

2. RICHARD BRADLEY      www.kindleaflame.com
1. Assesment of the session

3. DEVELOPING 5 SKILLS :writing
1. CHECKLISTS MODELS FOR WRITING

                                                              i.      Models for task planning

                                                            ii.      Models for language

2. RUBRICS FOR WRITING: Making our own

                                                              i.      What is a rubric

                                                            ii.      How to write a rubric

                                                          iii.      Some models

                                                          iv.      Resources:  Genre

4. DEVELOPING A LEARNING SEQUENCE: Presentation

Promoting reading in Secondary classes

Do you know "the 39 clues" material to promote reading with Secondary school kids? You can find more information at www.the39clues.com :

READ THE BOOKS

• All ten books of the #1 bestselling series are available now! Read The 39 Clues books to follow Amy Cahill and her brother Dan as they travel the world to hunt for the Clues. Each of the ten books comes with 6 game cards, reveals important information about the Cahills, and most importantly, unlocks one Clue!
• Audio editions are available through your favorite bookseller or through Audible.com.

COLLECT THE CARDS

• The cards provide the leads you need to track down the 39 Clues.
• Each book comes with a set of 6 cards.
• 39 Clues card packs are available separately. Each card pack comes with 16 randomly assorted cards. Card Packs 1, 2, 3 and 4 are available now!
• Each card comes with a unique identification code. Enter this code on the website to create your own online card collection.
• No two card packs are alike - collect them all!

  PLAY THE GAME

• Join now to start your hunt for the 39 Clues. Create an account, discover which branch of the Cahill family YOU belong to, and start exploring the website to see if you can be the first to find the Clues

You can also see how a teacher used this material to promote reading literacy with Middle School Boys

Foundation Reading: How to motivate reluctant readers

As a follow up of our last session issue ("Working on Reading") we want to offer you this episode of  Action! Teacher Video , where Foundation teacher Heather Ravenhall presents her film,   How to Motivate Reluctant Readers.