domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2008

4th OPEN FESTIVAL



Congratulations for all the participants of the festivals! All the songs were great and you did en excellent job.
The winners of this year are:
Enseñanza Básica: Third place: Colegio Inglés de Purranque, second place: Colegio San Vicente de Paul and first place: Escuela Canadá.
Enseñanza Media: Best intepreter: Colegio Proyección Siglo XXI, third place: Liceo Tomás Burgos, second place: Liceo Fray Pablo de Royo and first place: Instituto Comercial Osorno.

jueves, 30 de octubre de 2008

ENGLISH Week!!!








The English week is being carried out from November 11th to 14th. During this week students from several schools and high schools will be presenting their projects and assignments done through the school period. You can enjoy these presentation at Centro Cultural in Osorno.
In addition, the network will celebrate the Fourth Open Festival in which students sing songs in English and show their musical and language abilities.
Good luck for all the participants.

ENGLISH DEBATE




Comercial High School had an important participation in the English Debates this year.
They got fourth place at the National Competition.
Congratulations for them!!!

martes, 19 de agosto de 2008

Workshops



This year English teachers had to face a new and demanding task: Teacher’s Evaluation. This evaluation consisted on writing a portfolio about our pedagogical work, an interview with a peer-evaluator and a recorded class. As a way to support teachers during this process the Teacher’s Associacion OPEN implemented three workshops. The first workshop was about Good Teaching Framework (Marco para la Buena Enseñanza), the second was dedicated to Planning and the last one to Evaluation.
We would like to thank to Verónica Barría, Janeth Gallardo, Víctor Peña, María Elena Huenchullanca and Lorena Muñoz for the work done during these three workshops.

lunes, 14 de julio de 2008


Some images to remember our three days in Puerto Varas. Good workshop for all of us!

martes, 1 de julio de 2008

Workshop!!!

On Friday will be held a workshop related to the Evaluación Docente at Liceo Eleuterio Ramirez.
You have to read and study Marco para la Buena Enseñanza for Friday. Don't Forget, we will be waiting for you.

jueves, 26 de junio de 2008

TEACHING TIPS FOR TEACHERS


Gathered by Paola Zumelzu B.

20 ESL TEACHING TIPS

  1. Pair work/ Group work
  2. Reading Aloud
  3. Checking Understanding
  4. Pronunciation
  5. Speaking to Other Students in English
  6. Guessing Answers
  7. Stopping an Activity
  8. Feedback
  9. Dealing with Vocabulary Queries
  10. Monitoring
  11. Error Correction
  12. Eliciting
  13. Checking Together
  14. Reading before Writing
  15. Brainstorming
  16. Personalizing
  17. Translating
  18. Pacing
  19. Concept Checking
  20. Using Dictionaries

The Golden Rule “Never take anything for granted: explicitly discuss everything”

TIPS FOR ASSESSMENT: QUIZZES, TESTS, EXAMS

  1. Spend adequate amount of time developing your tests.
  2. Match your tests to the content you are teaching.
  3. Try to make your tests valid, reliable and balanced.
  4. Use a variety of testing methods.
  5. Take precautions to avoid cheating.

OTHER TIPS

Dear colleagues:

Make your job as funny and easy as you can.

  1. Talk about yourself: “Share personal stories with them”.
  2. Be funny: “Don’t be afraid to play the fool or make fun of yourself”.

Remember that a good teacher also learns from his/her students. The lessons always work both ways. And most importantly, teach because you truly enjoy it and because you want to. A good teacher couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” (Author unknown)

jueves, 5 de junio de 2008

Workshop!

On May 23rd it was held an interesting Workshop at Liceo Eleuterio Ramirez. The workshop was called Applying Reading Research to the Development of An Integrated Lesson Plan and was carried out by Mr. Thomas Baker. We thank Mr. Baker for his time and we hope we will be seeing him soon.

sábado, 29 de marzo de 2008

OPEN NEWSLETTER


The Open Newsletter was launched last Friday at Club Alemán. We had the presence of Mr. Francisco Pollak from DEPROV and Mr. Juan Lavados from DAEM Osorno. The members of the network also want to thank all the Principals that assisted to the ceremony.
Congratulations to all the people who worked in this project.