Made by: Nidya Marlyn Moncada Puente LELI

2. Unit 2
On September 22nd, 2015 we made an activity where the teacher gave us a
marker and depending on the color we were going to make teams, then she gave
us some papers and told us some phrases like “swim with dolphins”, “ride a
horse”, etc. And we had to write them on the paper. When we made the team
we interchanged our phrase so at the end we could have another phrase. Then
we had to look for a picture that related to the phrase, outside the classroom.
When we came to the classroom again we made a circle there we told our
classmates what phrase we had and we also recognized a mistake in one of our
classmate’s paper but we had a different paper from the one we had at the
beginning so no one knew who made the spelling mistake.
• This is my reflection for this activity: The teacher made us repeat several
times the instructions of the activity to make sure that we understood. When
we recognized one of my classmate’s mistake the teacher made us know that
we should never correct a student directly, when we were checking our
grammar in the circle, the student who made the mistake wasn’t exposed
because we didn’t have the paper with the phrase we wrote at the
beginning.
• The colors of the markers helped us not to spend too much time making
groups and it is also a relaxing way of grouping.

3. • Components of Classroom Management:
The teacher
The classroom
The learner’s
The teacher’s intervention
The behaviour
The teacher showed us a presentation and on a slide she put
some colors and some topics, which were the same colors we had
at the beginning with the markers and then we had to go to the
front of the classroom and mingle around while there was the
song “Happy” by Pharell Williams playing, when we stopped the
music we had to face someone and talk to them about the topic
we the slide had according to the color.
My reflection on this activity: Music was a way of setting time, it
also helps students who are musical.
It was also a kinaesthetic activity.
So what does it mean? It is so good and effective to have different
activities when you teach because we have different students
with different learning styles so in order for them to learn we
have to adapt to every learning style.

4. Learners’ styles
• On Friday September 25th, 2015 we watched a video about
types of learners and teaching styles and strategies.
My reflection on this class:
We, as teachers, should always establish rapport in our classroom
and how do we do that? It means to be present and to be present
is to know your students and know what they need and also to
know how they learn. We also always need to have a PLAN B in
case an activity isn’t working the way we thought.
Talking about learning styles, we usually have a dominant strength
and a secondary one. For example your dominant learning style
could be visual but at the same time you have a secondary one
that could be kinaesthetic.

5. On Tuesday, September 29th we learned that
there are different learning styles:
Visual learners: Info in pictures, charts, etc.
Strong visualization skills.
There are “movies in their minds” of
information they are reading.
Visual-spatial skills such as sizes and shapes.
They often pay attention to the body language
(Facial expressions, etc.)
Auditory learners: They can remember
detailed information they hear during
conversations or lectures.
Well-developed vocabulary.
Strong communication skills.
Kinaesthetic learners: They tap their legs or
move them a lot.
They do well as performers, athletes, actors or
dancers.

6. • In this class the teacher told us to
design an activity for adults and
my team and I decided to make an
activity for kinaesthetic learners.
• On this activity we made them
listen to a song about the weather,
it was called “Always Changing”
and then we started to mimic the
it and encouraged my classmates
to do the same.
My reflection on this activity: This
activity was so much fun because we
were all laughing and I think it is so
good that the teacher allow us to
decide which learners we wanted to
make an activity for. That’s a 21st
century characteristic, allowing your
student decide what they want to
learn.
Always changing
The weather is always changing
It reminds me of my feelings
When the sun is shining, way up
high
I feel so happy, I could fly!
When the win is blowing all
about
I’m angry and I scream and
shout!
When it’s raining and the sky is
grey
I’m sad and blue; I cry all day!
When thunderstorms are
crashing outside
I’m scared and there’s nowhere
to hide!
But when it’s snowing and
everything’s white
Then my life is magic and bright!

7. • On Friday, September
2nd the activity was
to make a poster on
one learning style.
The teacher gave us a
cardboard and
markers. My team
and I made the
“Visual learner”
poster and we drew
some of the visual
learner’s
characteristics

8. • After we finished the poster,
every team had to go to the
front and present their poster
to the class so everybody could
learn some of the
characteristics of the learning
styles.
• My reflection on this activity:
My teacher works as a
facilitator with us, she always
make us explore and research
and it works because we learn a
lot, on this activity we worked
in teams and then we shared
our conclusions with all the
other teams so we could all
learn about each other.

9. Focus on the learners
• On Tuesday, October 6th we saw an interesting class about
beliefs for example there are belief systems, beliefs about
teaching from students, beliefs about goals for example:
• Belief systems: there’s a belief than English is more difficult
than Spanish or that learning grammar is the most difficult
part because students translate things. People also think that
it doesn’t matter how they speak, people will understand
them anyway but a true native won’t understand at all. These
are some examples but there are a lot more
• Belief about teaching from students: Students think that
teachers should explain grammar rules and that their
responsibility is to provide all the information (the teacher’s). I
think these beliefs are from the traditional learning where
teachers used to give the class and examples but didn’t allow
the student to interact and I don’t think that way of teaching
works anymore.

10. • Beliefs about goals: Students think that they only
want to be able to make themselves understood.
And some students are not interested on learning
to read, only to speak because they need it for
their jobs, etc.
My reflection about this class: I think there are a lot
of strategies that we, as teachers can do for example
paying specific attention to your students’ needs in
order to make the class more enjoyable so they can
learn faster. We should tell them that nowadays the
teacher is just a facilitator of learning and the
responsibility of learning is also theirs. Also they need
to see that teachers have passion on what they do.
“The love and joy behind your teaching is perhaps the
strongest impression you will leave with your
students” – MEENA SRINIVASAN, AUTHOR &
EDUCATOR.

11. Interaction in the classroom
• On Friday, October 10th, we had the best
class ever. I enjoyed it a lot and I hope we
can do it again sometime soon. We made
an activity where the teacher asked us to
draw 5 things that represent us and then
we had to explain why we like them or
why they represent us. I drew a pair of
pointe shoes, my mom, a world, two
hands holding a heart and wrote FOCUS
in one of the drawings.

12. • After we finished drawing, we were
in a horse-shoe and we had to share
our drawings and the reason why we
drew them.
• I drew a pair of pointe shoes
because ballet is a really special part
of my life and I can’t imagine my life
without it.
• Then I drew my mom because she’s
the most important person in my life
and I almost lost her when I was 11
because she had cancer and I’m so
grateful that she’s okay and with me
now.
• I drew a world because I love
traveling and I would like to study or
work abroad in the future.
• I drew two hands holding a heart
because I consider myself to be
generous, I love helping people with
what I can.
• Then I wrote FOCUS, because I
consider myself to be a very focused
girl, I don’t like distractions.

13. My reflection on this class: As I said before I
loved doing this activity because we could all
learn more things about each other. We
almost cried because to be honest we all
drew things that were so important to us so
they brought us special moments. I learned
that it’s so important to get to know your
classmates, we all said that we are going to
be together for 4 years and we have to take
care of each other, at the end of our lives it
won’t matter what you did but the amazing
friends you made, college friends are forever
friends and that’s why I loved this activity,
because of all the things that it left me.

14. The learner in the 21st century
• As we have already seen the teacher in
the 21st century is a facilitator of learning
and the students are the responsible of
their own learning. We, as teachers have
to make the classroom a comfortable
place to work, we have to encourage
students to work together to come to
compromise or fully discussed solutions.
You have to make your classroom cozy
and teach with passion and connection.

15. • An important feature of the 21st century
learning is SINERGY, which is the
cooperation of students and their teachers
to facilitate student success beyond what
could be achieved by students or
instructors alone. Also the essence of
synergy is to value differences - to respect
them, to build on strengths, and to
compensate for weaknesses.
• In the 21st century there must be tasks
focused on a goal and teachers must
believe and trust that students can achieve
more than they can do by themselves.

16. • During this class, we also discussed
some quick fixes you can make to
change the class mood, for example: You
always have to have a PLAN B in case an
activity doesn’t work the way you
expected it to work, you can start an
activity that makes students move in
case they look bored or start an activity
that creates a dramatic change of pace.
We, as teachers should always be
prepared in case something happens
during the activities we had planned.

17. • We also learned about MIXED LEVEL
CLASSES and it is so interesting, it is
about mixing strong and weak students in
teams, strong students can help, guide
and support weaker students. We should
prepare MULTILEVEL TASKS for different
levels, those are tasks which are the same
for everyone but with different difficulty
depending on their level, including a
range of questions types, easier and
harder. When some students on a team
finish earlier than the other ones we
should have another activity for them, a
more challenging one.

18. • So what can we say about the 21st century
classroom and learning? It is a totally new
paradigm, the old paradigm which was the
traditional setting only provided instruction and
it’s most common teaching method use was
lecture. There are some teachers who still use it, it
is teacher-centered and students have a passive
role.
• In the new paradigm students produce their
learning, it is student-centered and uses active
learning techniques to get students involved in the
learning process. The new paradigm focuses on
the needs of the students, their abilities and
learning styles. It requires students to be active,
responsible participants in the learning process.

19. My reflection about this class: This class
provided us a lot of information that helped
us to get to know better how is the 21st
century learning, in my opinion it is the best
way of teaching and learning. Students should
be able to be active in the class. We, as
teachers should make their learning more
meaningful giving them relevant topics that
relate to their lives, needs and interests. We
should encourage them to be involved in
leader thinking, analysis, problem-solving,
synthesis and evaluation. Because if we make
the class meaningful to them they will
remember it for the rest of their lives.

20. • On Tuesday, October 10th we did a reading in
teams of 4 and 5, the teacher facilitated us a
different text to each team, my team and I started
reading out loud but we thought it was more
effective if we read the text by ourselves and then
discuss about it when we finish, the teacher asked
us to make a mind map with the information we
read. Our text was about teacher and student
centered. And we all helped to make the mind
map. Then we were going to explain our team’s
mind map the next class.
• My reflection on this activity: Team work is part of
the 21st century classroom and I like a lot being
part of it. It’s one of the things that I would want
to apply with my students.

21. • On Friday, October 23rd each team explained their mind
map and we took notes about them. I had to explain the
general differences from teacher and student centered on
my mind map and I learned a lot about it. After that activity
we only had 10 minutes left but the teacher managed to
make teams of 4 again and we had to discuss in which
activities we have applied the 21st century learning
characteristics then we shared it with the whole class. We
as a class made the conclusion that we have applied it when
we write journals, when we use technology to do some
research at class, when we use the smartboard and when
we made the send a problem/message activity some classes
ago.
• My reflection on this activity: Getting to realize that we
have applied the 21st century learning in some activities is
so good for us because maybe we didn’t realize it at first but
we have done it.
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring
change.” – William Arthur Ward

22. • On Tuesday, October 27th, our teacher
made different assessments for us, we
discussed about learning styles and
their characteristics. Also, we wrote
our opinion about student-centered
classrooms, I learned that professors
become designers of learning
experiences and facilitators. In the 21st
century the students are called
learners, they are active and
responsible of their own learning. We
also discussed why “lecture” has
limited efectiveness, it doesn’t help ss
retain information, it doesn’t develop
ability to tranfer knowledge and
doesn’t develop skills in thinking or
problem solving.
• There are 4 components: Knowledge
of the subject, Teacher-student
interaction, design of instruction and
management of the course.

23. • What makes an effective
teacher? An effective teacher
expects success from students,
manages their classroom well
and designs lessons for student
mastery.
• What’s the bottom line? The
bottom line is students learn or
their achievement.
• How can we increase students’
learning? Increasing the amount
of time the students are working
and increase their learning.
Because the person who does
the work is the only one who
learns.
• Bloom’s taxonomy: Knowledge,
Comprehension, Application,
Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation.

24. My reflection about this class: This class
showed me how we can make assessments
with students, our teacher didn’t allow us to
look to our notebooks while we were doing
our work and it was good because we noticed
that we learned during the classes. I also
learned what is fluency in students, it is the
stage where students can use what has
learned and apply it outside the classroom,
that’s what we called a fluent student. I liked
what the teacher asked us to do this class
because it helped us review for Friday’s exam
some topics we had already seen.

25. • On Friday, October 30th, we had our 2nd partial
exam and also we had to upload 2 activities, the
journal and the 21st century activity, the teacher
showed us different activities that we could do to
show the 21st century classroom and asked us to
choose one. The different activities were about
our different learning styles, so I chose the visual
activity.
My reflection on these activities: It’s so exciting to
apply the 21st century learning in our activities for
example the journal, it’s part of it. Also, when our
teacher asked us to choose from different activities
we were applying it because in the 21st century
classroom, you have to pay attention to how every
student learns and give them different activities
where you can let them choose how do they want
to learn so they can develop their own learning