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This is me! I teach in the Primary school of the town where I live. I teach History, Geography, P.E. and English in two First classes and English in 2 Fifth classes. I've always loved English, at first as a student and now as a teacher. Perhaps my little students can feel it because even if I teach also other subjects they say I'm their "English teacher".
I live just in front of the sea but I love mountain, so during the winter or in summer holidays I use to spend my time there with my family.

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https://moodle4teachers.org/badges/badge.php

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Here's the link to my teaching path video
https://youtu.be/TJ3vLu8loSU

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This course has opened  my eyes: I have found great teachers working in team who developed the issue of  CLIL. I discovered new ways of working and teaching.
During the 5 weeks I realized there are so many tools and links that I can use to make my lesson more interesting and enjoyable.
Actually, I am sorry this class is over but I am very thankful for this experience...looking forward to using what I learnt during these five weeks!

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Helps kids who were absent, stay current.

Helps kids who don't get the lesson the first time in class.

Good resource for teacher assistants or student support staff who may not know the curriculum or may not know what to focus on.

Can attach Google spreadsheets or other online quizzes to check for comprehension, along with the video link sent to students

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About BYOD

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I don' t have experience about extensive reading and actually I had never heard about it before Monday! This week has been so important for all new things learned. I teach at Primary School and I think students of the 4th or 5th class would like this new way of learning English! Reading for pleasure with no final tests, choosing the title they like more. Through motivating and interesting books at the right level for each age students will be involved and will improve their English knowledge and vocabulary. In my Clil extensive reading lesson I tried to introduce a science topic through the reading of animals' stories. I also included the use of webtools like Quizlet and Animoto to create games and videos on the topic. To increase motivation I thought to make children draw animals masks to play and mime. I just hope to put into practice all it's in my mind now!

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This morning I had my first Clil lesson! I said "real" because now I know how it really should be done...At first students spoke about their knowledge on the topic. Then we saw a short video (4 minutes): it was very clear and easy to understand. After this we build a skeleton....here's the picture ( I had fun writings labels with the new tools)... well ...next week we'll go on with clil, I have already written a simple text about the topic.

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https://moodle4teachers.org/pluginfile.php/51327/mod_data/content/2789/Valeria%20Mastromauro%20Extensive%20reading.docx

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Reading materials fo the extensive reading I appreciated this motto:
"Think big, start small"
...so true!!!

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Waiting to start the fourth week activities

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Waiting to start the fourth week activities

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...another week has gone

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In this week I learned how important is to plan a Clil lesson. Organized teachers will help their students to learn more easily and will be able to handle whatever unexpectedly happens in the lesson. Learning design is a very useful tool to be used for planning, it makes you realize and organize each detail of your future activity.

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Name

Animals in winter

Topic

Science

Learning time

2 hours

Designed learning time

2 hours and 10 minutes

Size of class

20

Description

A Clil lesson for Primary school ( 4th-5th class)

Aims

To increase students' vocabulary and subject content. To use the vocabulary learned for dialogues.

Outcomes

Classify, Comprehension, Knowledge, Application

Editor

Learning Experience

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First day of the third week: I really enjoyed "Learning designer" and I'm quite satisfied about my first lesson plan. I found so helpful sharing and comparing lessons in order to improve my skills...so much work still to do...learning...a never ending story!

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Technologies has surely helped learning. Nowadays we are permanently connected and this helps teachers searching whatever they need in blogs,social networks, foros, etc.

Actually, in my experience, I only use technology in my classrooms to search a lot of information or audiovisual resources from internet. I also use to provide students web addresses to work at home. In these two weeks course I' m becoming aware of so many web tools I never heard before.

I' ll surely try to introduce some of them to my students.

I bet that through these web tools pupils will be more and more motivated and this will lead to a long life learning.

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Digital resources and new technologies are more and more prominent in the world of education and in the daily classroom life. We have access to tablets or smartphones and to the thousands apps they offers. Through varieties of educational apps offering cognitive and communicative activities, we can stimulate reflection and critical thinking.

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I could not resist to try this new digital tool called Animoto. Here my first attempt to make a video with some pics:

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I had a complete different idea about CLIL before starting the course. Perhaps I also thought I was making CLIL lessons just because I was explaining in English different subjects. I realised how important is to plan and organise the work before an activity.
I found some difficulties in the use of some new apps but actually I felt so proud of me when I managed to end the activity of the week!

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In this first week course I learnt different definitions of CLIL.
The CLIL curriculm is based on the 4Cs:
Content
Communication
Cognition
Culture

A CLIL lesson contains the 4Cs and should follow a four-stage framework:
-Processing the text
-Identification and organisation of knowledge
-Language identification
-Tasks for students
I really found interesting the webinar about storytelling from Marisa Constantinides and all the tools she suggested.
Stories help children acquire language, knowledge, values and develop cognitive abilities, creative thinking and multiple intelligences.
Some digital tools:
-Creaza
-Animoto
-Voicethread
-Goanimate
-Storybid

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The term CLIL was coined by David Marsh, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (1994): "CLIL refers to situations where subjects, or parts of subjects, are taught through a foreign language with dual-focused aims, namely the learning of content and the simultaneous learning of a foreign language."