Workshop - Assessing Writing

Our first workshop this year!

2010 Activities

Debates 2010

Last Thurday 21st, Debates 2010 were carried out at Universidad San Sebastian. These are the teams that were participating that day. Congratulations to everybody you did a great job!!!

Reuniones 2010

Here thera are some photos from the meetings we have had during this year.

English Week 2009

It already beagan English Week 2009. During this week different schools and highschool from the Osorno Province are participating in the activitie organized for the English Network OPEN.

A Nuestras Queridas Colegas

Enseñaras a volar,

pero no volaran tu vuelo.

Enseñaras a soñar,

pero no soñaran tu sueño.

Enseñaras a vivir,

pero no viviran tu vida.

Sin embargo...

en cada vuelo,

en cada vida,

en cada sueño,

perdurará simpre la huella

del camino enseñado.

Gracias por la huella que dejaron en nuestras vidas, las recordaremos simpre con cariño, respeto y admiración.

OPEN

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.

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!!!

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

Last Friday!

Ok! Here are some pictures from the workshop held on Friday 26th. I hope you enjoyed it and learned a lot about writing.

WORKSHOP!!!

Don't forget that on Friday 26th we will have our workshop.
The workshop is called "How to apply the writing skill in the classroom" and will be carried out at Liceo Comercial Osorno from 15.00 to 18.00 hrs.
See you there.

Welcome!!!

Here a new tool to share in our network