In this "Portfolio" we present all the knowledge learned in the classes "Theory and practice of teaching English" taught by Professor Ana Palencia (U. Latina - Panama)

2. Our dear Professor Palencia.. Getting ready
for the first class

3. During the first class, professor talked about the platform
(edmodo.com) we were suppose to work on. All information
about the course was loaded up already in that webpage
Edmodo is a "social
learning platform"
website for teachers,
students, and parents

4. Kagan Cooperative structure is a way of easily increasing the
amount of time your pupils spend ‘on task’

5. First technique we use during the course. We
introduced ourselves (pairs)

6. THIS ARE SOME OF THEM:
ELL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
BICS BASIC INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS
CLT COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
EAP ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
ESP ENGLISH FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
EFL ENGLISH AS A FOREIGNER LANGUAGE
ESL ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
EAL ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
ELT ENGLISH LANGVUAGE TEACHING
ALM AUTOMATICS LIPS METHODS
GTM GRAMMAR TRASLATION METHOD
OLP ORAL LANGUAGE PRESENTATION
TPR TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSES
CLL COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING

7. Teacher hands out different topics for discussion – teams had
to analyze them and prepare a poster explaining those
documents.

8. Theories of teaching language

9. Always focused on every detail and information that
the teacher was teaching in class.

10. As last activity of that day, teacher invited us to
write on a small sheet what new ideas we
learned during the class.

11. we had to represent these ideas in a sketch -
another fun dynamic to use our creativity

12. Notes to raise concerns within
us…

13. We were trying to understand how the plataform
works – EDMODO:COM

14. Head – shoulders – knees and toes…..
Knees and toes…!!!

16. Finally we all heard her voice speaking in
Spanish.. Everyone was surprise..!!!

17. An example of TPR class

18. The Audio-lingual Method is a method for foreign
language teaching which emphasized the teaching of
listening and speaking before reading and writing.
My group had to prepare a document and try to
convince the audience to use that method…

19. The method emphasizes the autonomy of the learner; the
teacher's role is to monitor the students' efforts, and the
students are encouraged to have an active role in
learning the language.

20. ……. Another team had to present this method.
The CLL emphasizes the sense of community in the learning
group, it encourages interaction as a vehicle of learning

21. We were always giving the best to present
a fine quality work…

22. We began the class with a multintelligence test

23. Professor Palencia talks about this topic which is a term in
linguistic that refers to a language user's grammatical knowledge
of syntaxsis, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social
knowledge about how and when to use utterances
appropriately.

24. Professor Palencia we talk about the five
intelligences Gardner and important to
keep in mind at the time of facing a
classroom.
•The Disciplinary Mind
•The Synthesizing Mind
•The Creating Mind
•The Respectful Mind
•The Ethical Mind

26. a very cool activity I will definitely use at
school….

27. Some notes taken during the last Saturday.

28. Different methods and strategies to
achieve the acquisition of English
language

29. Some posters that brought Professor
Palencia for us to use in our classes
mmm… I
want a good
one
Sorry..
That´s
mine

30. On behalf of all my colleagues, we thank all the
knowledge transmitted during all sessions you gave us.
Thank you so much…