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MY TEACHING PATH

OUTLINE OF THE VIDEO-RECORDED TEACHING PATH

Name and surname GAIA ALESSI

Title of your teaching path: THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

School level:

primary

lower secondary

upper secondary

1. The context (brief description of the context of the teaching path) two classes: a second year class and a fourth year class. Each class with 20 students

1. The lesson plan

| Topic  |  The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle; a wellknown classical book for kids
| Subject/s | Literature and science
| Target |
| Target competence level (A1,A2,B1,B2, C1, C2) | A1
| Number of hours (approx) | 5 hours per class to listen, read, draw, speak and  record
| Objectives |
Language caterpillar, ate,leaf, egg, pear,plums,strawberries,cocoon,butterfly,simple past , preposition of place, adjectives
Content  Watch  andListen to the story from youtube, Draw a series of pictures illustrating the setting, character and the main events of the story(class IV) Ask the students what they can remember of the story, Read the new words (class II) and use them to introduce some easy adjectives Write sentences to match pictures or sequences
Technology IWB  /smartphone
| Teacher’s role Students’ role | To understand children's comprehension I asked some questions from the story. Then we repeated the sentences all together and then  in pairs
| Outcomes (links, resources etc.)   | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HI7q38VmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmSUjoVvskc
VIDEO LESSON PLAN
I don't want to make it visible to everybody
The children have got authorizations from the families but I can use them only to share by mail or on moodle with the teachers.

| Assessment | Please fill in your evaluation grid below

| Webtools and/or devices used    |
MOOVIE MAKER  and VIDEO SHOW  to obscure the children`s face
At the end of the course I’d like to prepare an ebook with pressbooks that I’ll share with the parents at the end of the year or to share this video on Edmodo
| Video sent by email: | Yes                            no if no, link to the video uploaded on the web:

EVALUATION GRID

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The very hungry caterpillar🐛 🍃🍎🍐🍐🍓🍓🍓🍊🍊🍊🍊🧀🍉🍭🍦🍰
I decided to work with my second and fourth class.
In the second year class I read this book and then they have created a small book drawing the food of the story. I also used the story to introduce some easy adjectives, such as "big/small; fat and thin". At the end we sang the story on the tune of "ten little indians"
In the fourth year class we watched the video of the story on YouTube and then they drew what happens "first /second /last". Then we read the story again and they had fun in recordering their voices while they were reading it.

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I admit my ignorance. I have never previously heard of ER before this course. But thinking carefully about its meaning I could say that it applys to my students'way of reading the books that they borrow from the library. If they have already finished their work, I let them read at school during the break or during the lesson or bring the book at home. Usually they come back from the library with two books, one in Italian and one in English. Sometimes I'm worried because the English book is either too difficult(for instance written in the simple past) or too easy. They admit that they don't look up each words since they understand the general meaning of the story. If the book is easy, they can read it very quickly and so they can borrow another one after a short time. I like to see them enjoy reading.

I think that this is a very simple and natural example of Extensive Reading without Clil connection. Now that I know about its exisistence, I'd like to realize my Extensive Reading in Clil that I had planned for this course. My lesson based on The very hungrycaterpillar book wants to improve their English vocabulary and their listening, speaking and reading English skills, but above all to develop their language competence. Unfortunately I think that E R is not very easy to do be done. While someone can be considered ER within Clil as “a waste of time”. I instead consider it as challenge, an active and original way of teaching. To develop my lesson plan with my classes, firstly I will readaloud the title of the book and flip through the pages and discuss what the story could be(to develop their imagination ), secondly they will listen to the story (to improve their listening skills),watch and read it on youtube (to develop their reading skills and to improve their vocabulary). I will ask simple questions about the story in order to repeat the plot and the vocabulary since I'm intersted in developing their fluency. Finally I will make them draw a simply series of pictures(I class), write simple sentences (IIclass)and create either their own version of the story changing the plot (to improve their writing skills)or simply draw the main facts of the story using the words “first”,Next “ and “ last” .(IVclass)

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I've never attempted to any clil lesson. This is the first time that I read something about it and I'm really interested in it. According to many teachers and after having read the material of this course, I can say that the main strength of this methodology is the natural way in which students learn the foreign language. They can touch the "daily language"since they are very really stimulated and have to make more cognitive effort. They improve specific language competences and" prepare them to their future work"((British Council news). At the same time, the main weakness is the great effort that teachers have to do. They must be well prepared and be very fluent. They must be able to use the right vocabulary of subjects in a foreign language

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MY WEBTOOL GRID Name and surname Gaia Alessi                        Country and city      Italy Trieste         School level where I teach                             Primary school Subject/s taught   English                              Webtool chosen: link and short description   https://www.edmodo.com/?language=itIl's a wonderful and simple way to connect and collaborate with the students, and their parents in a safe and controlled enviroment . Here, you can share materials, give assignments, communicate important class communications , upload worksheets or photos.You can connect with other fellow teachers and share important links or news                  School level where it could be used           Any level Subject/subjects             Any subjects          Skill/ skills the webtool may enhanceImprove Reading, writing , listening skills . It encorages a peer -support enviroment Students’ level of EnglishFrom the beginners to advancedTechnical requirements (if any)Elementary digital competence +Connection to internet mobile phone- tablet-PCMy experiments with the webtool (if any): external links, pictures, screenshots etc. I use it to build an online conversation with my class . Usually I share and post assignments, videos, documentaries , songs, link to play interactive online games or even photos for the absents to show them what we did during the lessons . Sometimes I reply to my students' answers about their homework.

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MY WEBTOOL GRID Name and surname Gaia Alessi                        Country and city      Italy Trieste         School level where I teach                             Primary school Subject/s taught   English                              Webtool chosen: link and short description   https://www.edmodo.com/?language=itIl's a wonderful and simple way to connect and collaborate with the students, and their parents in a safe and controlled enviroment . Here, you can share materials, give assignments, communicate important class communications , upload worksheets or photos.You can connect with other fellow teachers and share important links or news                  School level where it could be used           Any level Subject/subjects             Any subjects          Skill/ skills the webtool may enhanceImprove Reading, writing , listening skills . It encorages a peer -support enviroment Students’ level of EnglishFrom the beginners to advancedTechnical requirements (if any)Elementary digital competence +Connection to internet mobile phone- tablet-PCMy experiments with the webtool (if any): external links, pictures, screenshots etc. I use it to build an online conversation with my class . Usually I share and post assignments, videos, documentaries , songs, link to play interactive online games or even photos for the absents to show them what we did during the lessons . Sometimes I reply to my students' answers about their homework.

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'clil is a useful tool to improve students' language competences

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The most difficult!!!!
I have to videorecorder my clil lesson

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OUTLINE OF THE LESSON PLAN (from Learning Designer)

Name and surname GAIA ALESSI

Title of your Learning Designer WATER CYCLE LINK https://v.gd/H6lkWQ

http://learningdesigner.org/designer.php?uri=/personal/gaia67/designs/fid/debd5fdcff348998a417ccb3891b094a591653015c937707800e1d78392c098c

Title of the Learning Designer you reviewed ANNA MARIA FESTANTE'S NURSERY RHYMES LINK https://v.gd/vfzU8K

School level:

primary

1. The context (brief description of the context of the lesson) Students learn about the "water cycle" through playing games, creating a lapbook and watching an animated video and singing a song

2. The lesson plan

| Topic  | WATER CYCLE-DRIP'S WATER CYCLE
| Subject/s |
SCIENCE
| Target | PRIMARY SCHOOL 8/9 years
| Target competence level (A1,A2,B1,B2, C1, C2) | A2
| Number of hours (approx) | 7 HOURS
| Objectives
Technology | Language TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE TO LEARN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE ON THE TOPIC

Content -TO RECOGNIZE DIFFERENT FORMS OF WATER ON THE EARTH -TO EXPLAIN HOW WATER CHANGES FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER -TO CREATE A LAPBOOK
INTERNET
| Outcomes (links, resources etc.)  | hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAWrjscRy_o&feature=youtu.be&list=PLwYEhX-DgBMwNc_w9M7ti6mrNKlYdJ0wZ Mw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts&feature=youtu.be&list=PLwYEhX-DgBMwNc_w9M7ti6mrNKlYdJ0wZ be/XAWrjscRy_o?list=PLwYEhX-DgBMwNc_w9M7ti6mrNKlYdJ0wZ
| Assessment | ORAL AND WRITTEN ASSESSMENTS
| Webtools and/or devices used
| YOUTUBE
| FOCUS ON THE LANGUAGE |

| Subject-specific language of the lesson

SPECIFIC VOCABULARY CONNECTED WITH THE TOPIC
| Technology-specific language of the lesson
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| General academic language of the lesson
| LANGUAGE USED TO DESCRIBE THIDS CHANGING OF STATE: EVAPORATION/CONDENSATION/PRECIPITATION /COLLECTION LANGUAGE USED TO CREATE A LAPBOOK: CUT /PASTE /COLOURCLISTEN /READ

1. Rational of the lesson plan and comments (did you experiment it with your students? Describe in at least 200 words)

I started this topic by asking the students where they could find not drinkable water on Earth. Then I wrote on small sticky cardbards all their answers; called out all the words and repeated them until I was sure that everyone knew their vocabulary.After that  I showed them the water cycle poster (without the changing of state) and asked one by one to come to the blackboard to stick the right word on the right image.Then I read the "Drip the drop's story" using very simple sentences and miming the words. I gave them the story in segments and they had to put the parts in the right order. Then they had to paste and colour them on the copybook to make the Drip's story. Labelled each segment of the story by copying a simple sentences

To introduce the changing of state we Watched the "water cycle video", a two minute animated video to illustrate how the water cycle works. Then I explained with simple words the video. We used again the poster of the brainstorming adding the words EVAPORATION CONDENSATION PRECIPITATIONE COLLECTION.

At this point there were some oral and written assessments. I asked the students true or false questions about the changing of state.

I ended the activity learning a new song and completing the activity creating a lapbook on the topic

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WEEK 2 TEST 2          POTENTIAL AND WEAKNESS OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLIL

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WEEK 2 TEST 2          POTENTIAL AND WEAKNESS OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLIL

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This is my first Clil course so I don't have any Clil experience. I'm a primary school teacher but I'm not a subject teacher, After this three weeks course I can say that the potential of technologies for Clil is:

1.you can learn a subject and meantime you can learn a new technonogy

2 there is more interactivity between the students and the subject that they are learning

3.the students improve their knowledge by writing an essay on a padlet (for instance), by watching a lesson on youtube or by playing an online games about the topic that are learning, instead of listening to a traditional lesson.

4.improve your and their English skills in a more involving way

5.the students are more involved and less passive.

During my lessons, when it's possible,I use Youtube to watch tutorial videos, songs videos or documentaries ; Google to play on line games. Edmodo to share materials or homework

The biggest weakness is :

1.to be able to use all the technologies or the programs that you can find on Internet

2.to have WIFI connection

3.to have digital /interactive whiteboard in the class

4. to be able to stimulate your students giving them more exciting lessons

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          WEEK 3                                    MY LEARNING DESIGNER This is my  Learning Designer............ Drip's water cycle 

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          WEEK 3                                    MY LEARNING DESIGNER This is my  Learning Designer............ Drip's water cycle 

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https://v.gd/H6lkWQ

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        WEEK 2                              I'm not a Clil teacher ,but I think that it is a new way of teaching. Students are more involved  and less passive

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        WEEK 2                              I'm not a Clil teacher ,but I think that it is a new way of teaching. Students are more involved  and less passive

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Let's thnik a Clil lesson......

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I love to see children immersed in reading. I let my children read in class while they are waiting for a new task

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TECHNOLOGIES
Technologies are a great tool for the teacher's scheduling and students are more involved

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         WEEK 2                         My favourite webtool

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         WEEK 2                         My favourite webtool

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https://www.edmodo.com/?language=it

Il's a wonderful and simple way to connect and collaborate with the students, and their parents in a safe and controlled enviroment . Here, you can share materials, give assignments, communicate important class communications , upload worksheets or photos. It encorags a peer-support enviroment .

You can connect with other fellow teachers and share important links or news.
I use it to build an online conversation with my class . Usually I share and post assignments, videos, documentaries , songs, link to play interactive online games or even photos for the absents to show them what we did during the lessons . Sometimes I reply to my students' answers about their homework.

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I took a degree in English language and literature writting an essay on George Bernard Shaw' s Caesar and Cleopatra.

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george bernard shaw image - Google Search

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LET'S SURF THE NET    I usually use my tablet for several hours a day. I love surfing the net to look for new materials, worksheets, cartoons,songs and games to share with my students.  I like British Council website(very nice cartoons and interesting resources), YouTube and..Facebook English groups,of course.

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LET'S SURF THE NET    I usually use my tablet for several hours a day. I love surfing the net to look for new materials, worksheets, cartoons,songs and games to share with my students.  I like British Council website(very nice cartoons and interesting resources), YouTube and..Facebook English groups,of course.

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I'' LL DO MY BEST   This is my first time I've never attended any CLIL course. Since I'm a language teacher and not a class teacher, it's difficult for me to use clil activities. But after this course....... I'll do my best. 

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I'' LL DO MY BEST   This is my first time I've never attended any CLIL course. Since I'm a language teacher and not a class teacher, it's difficult for me to use clil activities. But after this course....... I'll do my best. 

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I'm using my computer, my tablet and my cell to attend this course.......I love these communication technologies

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I'm tired of writing again . Where are my padlets???......

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Hi everybody
I'm Gaia, a primary school teacher. I've been teaching English since 2007 . I spend part of my day running from one class to another...I have 8 classes