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Hi! I am from Chiriqui, Panama. I have a 13 years old boy. I love to have trips outdoors, especially to the beach. I am a English teacher and I have worked as a teacher for a few years;I had worked with students from 1st to 11th grade. I am so glad of having EFL Methods class in MSU because, is such a huge opportunity to improve my English teaching skills and myself as a professional. I am sure that I would take advantag of every resource, because this is in fact a dream come true.

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Instruction needs to ensure that learners develop a rich vocabulary.

Vocabulary in my opinion is the most important part when you decide to learn a new language because, without words you can't have oral communication. Teachers should ensure to teach students a vast vocabulary that permit them communicate in good way.

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Success language teaching requires extensive L2 input.

L2 input is will make that the L2 learning process be effective and a little bit easier. Because of the exposure to the tarjet language in readings, songs, movies and others, the students will become familiar to L2 and they will listen the correct pronunciation of words and their usage.

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Successful language teaching also requires opportunities for output.

Students need to practice L2 by writing and speaking. Because of my own experience, I can realize that this is a fact. By the time I finished high school a had some vocabulary and I was able to understand L2 but, I couldn't speak. When I started practicing at college and when I began to work on a billingual school, I had to start speaking in English because I had to and in that moment I started developing my speaking skill. I truly belief that students need the opportunity for output, without it their communication skills would be affected.

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The opportunity to interact in the L2 is central to developing L2 proficiency.

By interacting with others in L2 the students will learn by listening to other persons and improve their communication skills by sharing their own ideas. The communicacion process include more than one person to be effective so the interaction with others is absolutely neccesary.

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Beginning the day: Enter the room politely; put away your backpack, lunch, and coat; turn in your homework; sit at your desk adn read alone or do before-school work silently.
When and how to use the school restroom: If I am not teaching the whole group, stand by the classroom door with your hand raised; if I say "no", wait for a better class time to go; if I nd, leave the room quietly; do not play in the restroom; retorun to class before two minutes have passed (promptly).
Throwing away trash: You may throw away trash whenever you nedd to if I am not teaching the whole group; do not lay basketbal with your trash make sure all the trash lands in the can; pick up trash even if it isn't yours.
Signals for attetion: When I need your attention, I will ring the chimes (or sound the rain stick, open the music box, etc.); as soon as you hear the signal, stop what you are doing, look at me, and listen for directions.
What to do during free time: If you finich an assignment, first work on any unfinished assignment that are in the front pocket or your work notebook; when you finish those, you may choose to do your classroom job, read a book, write a story, illustrate a book, make up math problems, work on a research project, peer-tutor someone who needs your help, or create a song about what the class is studying.
(Taken from Schoolastic  Teaching Resources given by Mary Lou in the seminar.)

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Running dictation is a great way to enliven a tired class. Use your own short text or the texts on my English dictationpages. Cut the text into sentences and place them around the room. Split the class into groups or pairs. Each group must have one runner and a designated writer

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JIGSAW IN 10 EASY STEPS

1. Divide students into 5- or 6-person jigsaw groups. ...

2. Divide the day's lesson into 5-6 segments. ...

3. Give students time to read over their segment at least twice and become familiar with it. ...

4. Bring the students back into their jigsaw groups. ...

5. Float from group to group, observing the process.

https://www.jigsaw.org/

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Check the directions: http://languageteachinggames.blogspot.com/2012/10/flyswatter-vocabulary-game.html

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Think-pair-share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This strategy requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or answer to a question; and (2) share ideas with classmates. Discussing with a partner maximizes participation, focuses attention and engages students in comprehending the reading material.

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By: Mark Warner

"Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!" is an excellent strategy for questioning children during lessons.
Another formative assessment which is simple and quick--letting you know immediately how well the students are understanding the concepts is the thumbs up and thumbs down technique. Just ask them how well they "get it" by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down sign. I also allow them to show degrees of understanding by putting their thumb anywhere on the spectrum between up and down (hence the "all-around" in the title).

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Check: http://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Word-Definition.htm

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Students should find the person that match the paper given by the teacher, could be for example un picture and the other person have the written name or deminitionof the picture.

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Teacher could ask question or say a stament and the students say if they are strongly agree, agree, disagree or strong disagree. You could use emojis for each options, or ask them to use un number from 1 to 5 and so.

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Students work in pairs to rank groups of vocabulary words from mildest to most extreme (or how well they know the word to use it orally or written). Students must identify (define) words orally, then qualify the words.

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This is a powerful tool for teaching spoken English. It helps teachers incorporate pronunciation into lessons. Check out the chart, the teacher’s guide, and the webinar on how to teach with The Color Vowel Chart.
https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/color-vowel-chart

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This technique was given by the writing/class professor. It is a simple way to teach the auxiliary verbs to my students. It says that every English sentence have an X word. There are 20 X words and 4 families.

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Dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where learners are required to reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then used as a base for reconstruction.
https://ealresources.bell-foundation.org.uk/information/great-idea-dictogloss

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This game gives the students the chance to practice long vowel words pronunciation. EFL MEthod

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1. Activities based in different levels of learning http://www.teachersofindia.org/en/article/activities-based-different-levels-learning-introduction-bloom%E2%80%99s-taxonomy

2. Scaffolding learning- scaffolding language https://assets.pearsonschool.com/asset_mgr/current/201511/gibbonschapter.pdf

3. Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students https://www.edutopia.org/blog/scaffolding-lessons-six-strategies-rebecca-alber

4. Classroom Management http://www.projectidealonline.org/v/classroom-management/

5. Short Stories http://eslyes.com/

6. Vocabulary https://www.lextutor.ca/

7. Vocabulary https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/vocabulary-activities

8. 103 Things to do during or after reading http://www.readingrockets.org/article/103-things-do-during-or-after-reading

9. Online game https://kahoot.com/

10. Ineffective Classroom Management https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhIUo2a1iE

11. https://get.plickers.com/

12. https://kahoot.com

13. https://youglish.com/

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It is one of the most common strategy to makestudents relate the vocabulary with meaning through a topic.

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One project idea is to use  youglish website to ask students to choose a specific numeber of words and find some common uses in English speaking.
Speaking/listening MSU Course (Anne Letson)

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If the computer lab is available to use, grammar exercises are perfect in this website used by Peter Hoffman at MSu. Students will be abre to improve their grammar skills and it is a very friendly website.
https://www.grammar-quizzes.com