Sara in Arkansas

The teachers' conference in Brazil was amazing and wonderful; they gave us many strategies that we can use in our classroom. One of the ones they showed was how to teach with comics and another was how to teach with technology. The teachers of Brazil supported each other, the truth was not a group ... they were a team ... which is not the same. They gave us resources with new technological tools that can easily be searched in Google. These new ways will help the students to assimilate much more the language of the English language. These tools that have provided exchange between these two cultures is an opportunity for students to become accustomed to using technological resources in a practical way since they are more familiar than we are, motivating them and their parents to use them.

One of the ways in which the Cherokee school teaches is that students do not forget the history of their ancestors. In each class the teachers teach them the Cherokee language. Each teacher repeats the same instructions every day; each classroom is decorated with the symbols of the Cherokee language. In this school they have the themes stuck around the walls with each topic. This method of repetition and motivation is very simple, they use very cheap resources and I can implement it within my classroom. Do not let students forget about past issues; use all the necessary resources so that students learn more and more English.

Heifer organization In my personal opinion about helping people who need it and supporting them, it is in the intention and in the disposition, The Heifer Organization, which works in the execution of self-sustainable projects, in a population that suffers from extreme poverty, is a teamwork. It makes me reflect that many times I tell my students that they are doing well, and improve their self-esteem, because if I, as an adult, feel good when someone says good work, the more my students.

Central High School of Little Rock The events in Central High School of   Little Rock, it catches my attention about   that something   happened in Panama, in the old Panama Zone Canal, on January 9, 1964 where some Panamanian students   were to raise the Panamanian flag on the old Canal Zone.   Now day on January 9 th it’s a day of national mourning. Those events lead us to reflect that “it impossible to forgot” and it give the opportunity to teach our current and future students the about our history, and tell them that those heroes or martyrs, were motivated to fight for equal opportunities.

Why do you teach English language? One of the questions that caught my attention this week during the session with Dr. Leyah Bergman-Lanier was: why do you teach the English language? Actually teaching the English language in my country, gives you the opportunity to have a secure job, I personally started studying the language, because of the diversity of opportunities to get a good job, the same with this “BILINGUAL PANAMA PROGRAM”, the Faculty of languages is saturated, but it is one thing to know English and another is to know how to teach it, to be a teacher of the English language. I started without knowledge of being an English teacher I had studies in business administration teaching. Studying English does not make me an English teacher; I never thought I was an English teacher. I have had the opportunity to work with very good Spanish teachers who have taught me how to deal with students. It is a beautiful vocation, and I hope to continue learning more every day, and to rem...

The Iceberg The iceberg was the topic in the session with Dr. Leyah Bergman-Lanier. She talked about the cultural iceberg ... Personally, it was very interesting, to regain control over this topic. I have loved working with teachers from different regions of the Republic of Panama here in Arkansas, it has taught me to have patience and have an ability to deal with each of the invisible personalities of the iceberg. On the other hand, to understand or accept to reflect on iceberg culture is to recognize that there are deep things and it is an experience to shape my behavior and try to understand that there is a part of our personality that is very different from the others and that in many In some cases, cultural groups may share some main values ​​ and they may be interpreted differently according to what they have learned from each group or their daily situations. In the case of my students, in some occasions I only see what I want them to learn, (the visible part) but when I kn...

  Teaching   listening Listening is one of the skills in Spanish that we develop in our natural mother language, so when we try to learn other language new it’s very difficult. my students and I  has more problems in Listening skill than other skills. My students and I have to develop our ear and practice the listening skills in order to understand the main idea of the text.. In my cases as a teacher it’s one of the listening skills that some of the time I didn’t use, because the classroom doesn’t have the tool necessary. (I don’t have English´s Classroom). I know that I have to help my students develop all of the set of listening strategies and match appropriate listening skills in each situation.

Lifestyles center for disabled Some of the people still incommode, to talk with somebody that has disables. In my own experience to teach students with these kind of problem (in Panama is calls: Students with Special Necessity   SSN). And how can I help to my students with some disabilities?  My answer is that all of my students learn at the same time with the same environment … but our students with special necessity educative (my point of view) need a good center educative and integrate there the rest of our students, not integrate our special students in ordinary´s classroom. Other things that in our schools don’t have are resource necessary to support SSN they need professional’s teachers to collaborate together with the Spanish and English teachers. Other problem with SSN is that on our classroom are too much students more or less 30 per classroom , and 3 or 4 SSN, so is too difficult to pay attention of all of the students. And, also they have English class (2...