tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20020950459728718462023-11-16T02:54:47.761-08:002010 Peru AdventuresMr. T retired May 14th, 2010 and now is free to travel and teach.Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-27820626361650843312010-07-23T13:30:00.000-07:002010-07-23T13:30:30.859-07:00Friday before semester break!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Now I would like to think that all the funny colorful hats the students wore today, were in my honor.... in reality the students were expecting a party after school!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The glasses definately make this outfit!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Imagine trying to teach with these three in the classroom....</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Where did she find this hat?</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I´m too cool.......</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">All throughout the day, this hat seemed to float from head to head to head.... Minnie Mouse is very popular in Peru!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">As the groups worked on their assignments, Johnathan and I moved throughout the classroom, monitoring and trying to keep the students on task! </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">On task..... not an easy concept to get across when the students were wearing these silly hats!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I brought a number of different games along with me from California to play with the students, and Tangoes was one of them. </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">During one of the passing periods, I gave the puzzle to one of my students, and asked him to see if he could put the puzzle pieces together to form the design on the card. Took him a little while.... and then he got it!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It was not long before other students wanted to try their luck.... the other students however had trouble putting the puzzle together .... even as a group! Fun way to take a breather from English class!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">As part of their homework assignment, this class was to write a sentence of what they, or someone else did durng each month of the year. The students were to illustrate their work as well.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the boys seemed to have forgotten about the homework assignment, so got busy and worked on it during the class period.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Next week, Peru will celebrate its Independence ..... all week long in fact!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Following my suggestion to JOhnathan last week that a new lesson on months of the year could build on his lesson days of the week ...... Johnathan had developed a lesson and taught it.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Frequently students would ask for my help translating a Spanish word into English. As part of this lesson students had to write a sentence for each month of the year. For example..... In May I study at school. Since Jonathan had also introduced the Present Simple verb congugation in this lesson, students had to change the verb accordingly.... i.e. In May she studys at school.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">As is the case in any classroom, some students just need a little more attention than others!</span></b></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-35666861563054037682010-07-21T17:06:00.000-07:002010-07-21T17:06:37.080-07:00Teaching Tisha´s English classes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Tisha did not show up for class first period, Johnathan and I decided we would follow the normal daily English class schedule. He would teach his classes, and I would teach Trisha´s classes.</span></span></b><br />
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">After checking the student´s notebooks, I could tell what lessons Trisha had already taught and what lesson I could teach today. </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Working in groups, students were to identify the correct family member and then write a sentence in their workbooks.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">As the day progressed, I tried my hand at drawing the various family members, using the model in the student workbooks. After students had completed their group work, I used my drawings and the written text to check for understanding. Students came to the whiteboard and filled in the correct answer.... which they then read to the whole class, and the class decided if the answer was correct.</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Tuesday, the second English teacher, did not come to school! We heard that Trisha had had an accident, but that was all. The Director of the Colegio called Johnathan into his office and asked Johnathan to combine his and Trisha´s classes ...... and show them a movie! That´s what we did.... it was all in English and the students really enjoyed the movie... I did too!</span></span></b>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-69432800446786561182010-07-16T15:12:00.000-07:002010-07-16T15:12:39.134-07:00Calendar next...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">This class had not yet studied the days of the week, so Jonathan began the class with a model written on the whiteboard. He also included drawings, similar to what he wanted the students to draw in their notebooks.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">¨What´s the English word for <i>nadar</i>?¨This student asked me. Looking at his sentence frame, I responded, ¨On Saturday I go swimming.¨</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Keeping this young man on track was nearly my full time job! When I looked at his paper, I got a clue why he was so, so active. Check the paper below....</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">When students had finished their work, Johnathan would go to the student and check the student´s book. I noted to Johanthan that since this lesson on the days of the week, with specific drawings for each day, had been going so well..... we could next teach the months of the year. This would build on the current lesson plan, and expand it. For students to come up with something specific from Cuzco, or Peru for each calendar month would be a good learning challenge for them.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It´s the dead of winter in Peru, with the night time temperatures dropping into the low 30s. The secondary classrooms do not get sun until late morning ..... so the first classes of the day find their classrooms cold! The Moray, named after the circular terrace agricultural system used by the Inca, can be a fantastic classroom on cold days.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>¨<i>Where´s your book?</i>¨ Seems to be the question every teacher, everywhere in the world, asks at the beginning of class.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>¨My book is at home.¨ Comes the frequent reply..... so the next response of the teacher .... ¨<i>Can you share?</i></b></span>¨</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just below the classroom, overlooking the school and the valley below, was a nice grassy area where we could hold class. The sun to our backs ..... it was delightful!</span></span></b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Wait a minute! Is this English class..... or a science experiment? The sun indeed was strong enough to burn the leaf the student was holding.</span></b></div>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-90290119238411899152010-07-12T17:39:00.000-07:002010-07-12T17:39:32.441-07:00Days of the week lesson.... continues! <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The days of the week lesson continues into the second week! What with Johnathan and I seeing the students at Pukllasunchis for only one hour per week, one good lesson plan can go on for a week or two! Especially given the holidays and the special events at the school it is easy to see a class only once every two weeks. </span></span></b><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>At the end of the period, each student would come to the front of the class and read to the whole class what they did each day of the week.</b></span></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span id="goog_2106739266"></span><span id="goog_2106739267"></span>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-38821088460273539342010-07-12T17:10:00.000-07:002010-07-12T17:10:13.661-07:00July 10, 2010 Festidanza at Pukllasunchis Colegio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikiWy8fSZxOxOuS7wUMUk0MGVkZWVvtMBrLPI6p7krwgolIi1svPXcccvEqoaPwna8BzPHDd49U8IhEGkunc8Y6P_7OHfQm21kPEhjW8T3p6vGWFQ_9zLF8XKUbcvxCXog3P4zeyAqs8w/s1600/danseprogram.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikiWy8fSZxOxOuS7wUMUk0MGVkZWVvtMBrLPI6p7krwgolIi1svPXcccvEqoaPwna8BzPHDd49U8IhEGkunc8Y6P_7OHfQm21kPEhjW8T3p6vGWFQ_9zLF8XKUbcvxCXog3P4zeyAqs8w/s320/danseprogram.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A major cultural event, with students from 4 year old to 18 years old performing traditional danses from every part of Peru, was held at Pukllasunchis Colegio on Saturday. The many cultures of Peru (coastal, Andes, jungle) were represented through music, traditional dress and danse. The event brought hundreds of people to the Colegio to watch this colorful and lively event. Many of the students I´ve been teaching, performed on Saturday.</span></span></b>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-23146279174829880792010-07-12T17:03:00.000-07:002010-07-12T17:03:27.775-07:00Elementary students add color and flare to the danse at Pukllasunchis Colegio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gJhuqcSy9jnsOHsH82fRUV8DAUBXCP37HyWs4GtiLk4lY9du2AxSp4t2ni7to416Zqr9ORQLgWgBVcLoMr4vj9dIEcK7AFbNTTTNJf8KZ9Wltey3nxm1ssQWKpV5Q-JTOkMaoBkbvR8/s1600/reddanse.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gJhuqcSy9jnsOHsH82fRUV8DAUBXCP37HyWs4GtiLk4lY9du2AxSp4t2ni7to416Zqr9ORQLgWgBVcLoMr4vj9dIEcK7AFbNTTTNJf8KZ9Wltey3nxm1ssQWKpV5Q-JTOkMaoBkbvR8/s400/reddanse.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A group of elementary students, dressed very colorfully, performing a typical danse from Peru. </span></span></b>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-66472521067490013022010-07-12T16:26:00.000-07:002010-07-12T16:26:31.951-07:00Culture, music, danse and Fun at Pukllasunchis festival<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-68141035667981152252010-07-12T16:10:00.000-07:002010-07-18T11:45:47.399-07:00Devil Dance by my students at Pukllasunchis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy8o64HH7AGJgBbrV3xH_eB2QSYFJhHsSd-QyzY4SizR5_vP19VSKsdOGNUfmQb2aU6OU5DrPScCQvcZ9d91w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>This was by far my favorite danse! Many of the students I´ve been teaching in the upper grades, dansed in this very lively section.... almost a Madri Gras atmosphere, and what with all the masks..... who could tell.... who was who! The students had a blast performing this for the audience. The music made it hard to sit still!</b></span>Mr. Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991055530600577464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002095045972871846.post-34365578690145132212010-07-10T15:48:00.000-07:002010-07-10T15:48:16.953-07:00Mentor and Instructional Assistant<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">More and more over the last couple of weeks, I´ve become Johnathan´s Instructional Assistant. So in addition to my coaching Johnathan on teaching strategies, I´ve been spending more and more time working with groups and individual students. </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">To help me better communicate with my students at the Colegio, I became a student myself and took some Spanish classes. About half of the classes I helped Johnathan teach, were beginning level English. So teaching and assisting in Spanish was critical to my helping the students. Four days a week, after the English classes were over, I met for an hour and a half with Sandra, my teacher, to learn ¨correct¨Spanish. </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The arts thrive at the Colegio. Once a year, the Colegio holds a performing arts festival. Music and danse are a critical part of the curriculum, as students learn about the various cultures of Peru in the process. </span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Toward the end of the period, Johnathan had the students come to the front of the class and read to their classmates, what they had written. Always interesting what teenagers write and in the process how we as teachers can gain insights into their lives. One boy had written that on Thursdays he goes for dialisis.</span></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Johnathan and I had helped him ahead of time with the word, since he knew it in Spanish, but not English.</span></span></b><br />
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While <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trisha, the other English teacher at Pukllasunchis was teaching a lesson involving the vocabulary of a family tree (grandparents, parents, brother, sister) I observed the lesson with the idea of giving her some feedback.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The students in the classroom were divided into two groups. The classroom itself was bright and colorful! The type of classroom students like to study in. As soon as the students came in the door, they sat down, got out their notebooks, were quiet.... ready to learn.</span></b></span> I<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> could tell immediately that this was a classroom with structure, where learning was prized by the teacher and the students.</span></span></b> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Once all the names of family mambers had been filled in, i.e. grandmother, sister, Trisha used this opportunity to have the whole class decided if what the students had written on the whiteboard was correct. In addtion, she used this as a time to teach the correct pronunciation of each new vocabulary word.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Trisah moved throughout the classroom, checking studetn work. I asked Trisha if she had rules and procedures in her class, and she said yes. The typical types of rules, no gum chewing, raise your hand before talking, etc. Students receive an individual grade as well as a comment on their report card related to how they work within a group structure. The group comments for the individual report cards, come largely from the other students when they complete their quarterly reflection.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Withe the direct instruction and guided practice over, students were to now draw their own family tree. Something that really impressed me at this point, was that Trisha did not give the students an example of what their family tree might look like. Instead, she allowed the creativity of the students flow! This young boy drew a Christmas tree and filled in the members of his family!</span></span></b> <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Later in the day, I was able to debrief with Trisha. I told her I was very impressed with the structure she´d put into her classroom..... as a roaming teacher this is not always that easy. I also told her I liked how she moved through the lesson from direct instruction to guided practice to independent work. She spent little time in the front of the classroom, rather using her time to move throughout the classroom monitoring student work. At the very end of the lesson, she did a wrap up which checked to see if the students had mastered the objectives she´s set out. Throughout the whole lesson, it was obvious to me that Trisha and the students not only respected each other, but had fun completing the assignment. Trisha gets a big A+ in my book!</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After modeling some lessons for Johnathan, he quickly adapted the lesson to his own style and has been following the basic lesson plan model in his other classes. He teachers 6 classes of introductary English, so is able to teach the lesson, reflect on it, and then improve the lesson for on the next group of students. </span></span></b><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The lesson began with students brainstorming the names of the various rooms in a house. Johnathan wrote the names of the rooms on the whiteboard, both in Spanish and in English.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">To help the students better understand the written vocabulary, Johnathan drew the floor plan of a house on the whiteboard. Students were now asked to come forward and using the vocabulary words on the opposite whiteboard, to draw a piece of furniture from the list, in the appropriate room in the house.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The drawing of the pieces of furniture was a great learning tool, for the students were extremely eager to draw! More importantly perhaps, the groups began comparing the list of terms developed on the left side of the whiteboard, to make sure the object or piece of furniture was reflected in the drawings on the right side of the whiteboard.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to the whiteboard activity where students drew the floor plan of a house, they also worked independently in their notebooks, drawing their own individual floor plan with their own pictures. One of the final steps in the lesson, to see if the students had been able to master the lesson´s objectives.</span></b></td></tr>
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</a></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In our free time, Johnathan and I talked a good deal about the process of planning a lesson. With English language learners (all students for that matter) the use of visuals in the lesson is critical. Vocabulary development in English, using lots of visuals, is key for these students to successfully learn....</span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I am pointing at the Inca Sacred Mountain of Waynapicchu. Directly in front of the mountain lays Machuu Picchu, The Lost City of the Inca.</span></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">See the elephant?</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The four day Inca trail trek is not for the faint of heart! The first three days involve hiking up and down the often dusty and sometimes steep rugged mountain trail for 8 to 12 hours each day. So when Jose, a young Peruvian guide was assigned to accompany a group of trekkers, he thought nothing of it.... until, he and everyone else in the group, noted that an 85 year old man had, at the last moment, joined the very physically fit group. The old man seemed out of place with this fun loving group of young people. He stayed to himself, and did not talk with anyone.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first day, when the old man began lagging behind the group on the mountain path, Jose was given the task of staying behind to walk with the man. They walked slowly together as the sun rose and set, but the old man didn´t say much to Jose. The first day out Jose and the old man arrived about 20 minutes late to the evening camp ground. No one was too surprised when the old man moved quietly off to the side of the camp and settled in for the night without a word. By now, everyone in the group knew the old man was very withdrawn, as if he was carrying some burden that he wished not to share.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The second and third days along the Inca Trail, the old man slowed down even more,resulting in his and Jose´s arrving later and later to the evening camp site. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the end of the third day on the trail, the two silent hikers arrived more than two hours late. All the while as Jose and the old man trekked along the trail, they talked little. The old man had no interest in talking with Jose or anyone. Continually hunched over, the old man seemed weighed down by his 85 years.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The fourth and final day, was a much shorter hike... only about 4 hours. Mid morning found the group of trekkers at Manchu Picchu. No more had the group arrived at this sacred Inca site, when the old man pulled Jose off to the side and whispered something to him. Jose was stunned by the old man´s whispered request....! Jose thought to himself ... after all the slow, labored hiking he and the old man had done together over the last four days, the old man now asked that just the two of them climb to the top of Wayanpicchu. The old man had hardly been able to trek the Inca Trail and now this! If the Inca Trail tests one´s physical stamina, Wayanpicchu is an extremely dangerous climb, that tested not only one´s physical endurance, but one´s mental capabilities as well. How did this old man think he was going to be able to climb to the top of the mountain, when many people a quarter the old man´s age refused to even attempt it? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wayanpicchu Mountain soars some 8000 feet straight into the air, with an extremely dangerous stone path that winds back and forth as it literally clings to the side of the mountain, most often with no safeguards to keep one from possibly slipping off, only to then fall straight down thousands of feet to the distant valley below. Surrounding Wayanpicchu are the stark, snow capped Andes Mountains that dominate the horizon as they trust themselves magnificently up into the blue sky. Massive granit mountains that encirle and tower over the sacred Inca Mountain of Wayanpicchu. The views of the distant mountains and deep valleys are spectacular, but can cause an overwhelming sense of vertigo as one slowly moves up the ancient path.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the hours passed, Jose and the old man, slowly climbed the path, frequently stopping after just a few ardous steps so the old man could catch his breath. Few words were exchanged as they slowly made their difficult and extremely labored climb up the 8000 feet to the top of the mountain.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally when the two accidental travelers, men of very different cultures, ages, life experiences, as well as physical conditions reached the stony top... the old man gently directed his young guide to take a seat on the mountain top. The old man then quietly ask Jose, if he would assist him in a special ceremony. As Jose listened to the old man, he thought to himself ..... rather than the old man sitting on the moutain top, it seems the weight of the entire mountain has settled on this old man´s shoulders. Earlier too Jose had noticed the even as the two of them had walked the last few steps to the top, the old man seemed more hunched over, moving much more slowly, his breath extremely labored. There had been times when Jose had truly regretted his agreeing to accompany the old man on the climb to the top of Wayanpicchu. Many a time Jose feared the old man´s heart would simple give out, as they inched slowly toward the summit.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the two men sat on top Wayanpicchu and looked down at the spectacular view of Machuu Picchu, The Lost City of The Inca ... the old man slowly pulled a container out from under his jacket. Holding the container with the care a mother holds her new born baby, the old man explained to Jose how he and his wife had planned a trip of a life time.... a trip in which the two of them would hike the Inca Trail and then visit Machuu Picchu. His wife, however had become terminally ill and died before they could make the trip. The container held his wife´s ashes. A silence fell over the mountain top as they each fell into their own private thoughts. Nothing more needed to be said between them. As if divinely directed, the old man and Jose stood up at the same time, and moved to the edge of the cliff...</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Together, Jose and the old man cried as they conducted a simple ceremony and poured the old man´s wife´s ashes over the sacred Mountain of Wayanpucchi and into the valley below.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Later that evening, the old man told his fellow trekkers his story..... and the old man along with the group cried all over again. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With his story now having been told, the old man stood tall amoung the trekkers, as his voice was once again rang with laugher.....</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The trek along the Inca trail had come to an end..... the ceremony on top the sacred mountain was over....... and the trip of a life time had been completed.</span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How does a teacher make English grammar interesting? Johnathan did a great job of introducing the concept of ¨Present Simple¨and ¨Present Continuous to this class. The whole concept of, for example, <i>I work</i> at a store, but now <i>I am working</i> at a restaurant, is a Ttough concept to help students understand and master. </span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">This visual in the students´text was very helpful! For each individual in the picture, the students were to say a sentence with both the Present Simple and the Present Continuous. The photos of these famous people helped! For example.... <i>Pavarotti sings opera, but in the picture he is playing soccer.</i></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jonathan caught on quickly to the concept of a five point lesson plan. After introducing the lesson, he quickly moved the students into some guided practice of the concept.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The whole class guided practive, was then followed by some independent work. Teaching grammar can be a difficult assignment, however, Johnathan made the lesson as interactive as possible, so as to help the students gain an initial level of mastery of Present Simple and Present Continuous.</span></b></td></tr>
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