It's not easy

DAYS 17-19 9-11 MAY 2011

A little bit stuck with how to put into words my observations and six interviews. Ema came to the rescue though. The action stage has now begun. Lots of preparations as it’s our turn to produce materials.

Contrary to what I had planned, we asked each class to suggest topics. Mistake? The voting was spoken and probably because of peer pressure, voting was induced by popularity or conformity to the masses J) Next time? We’ll do real SECRET voting.

Year 1 chose…History of Music 50’ onwards, The Mayas.
Year 2 chose…History of Rock 50’onwards, Countries and Capitals, History of Football, content, texts, short videos, a song.
Year 3 chose…Nazis (in Argentina) and History of Rock, sthg interactive, stu can read before the lesson, short vids and texts, discussion, a little intro-explanation.




DAY 20 12 March

I need to keep this journal on a daily basis. I don’t wanna miss a thing. Anyway, today I sort of finished drafting the first two stages. Ongoing analysis is really helping me plan the coming stages and reflecting about where I want all this to go and how I can help my fellow teachers more.

Today we got together at the school. We felt that we need to develop the materials individually and then share our thingies for everyone’s considerations. We don’t think the school is a good place to actually produce the materials. We’ll work at home and then get together for a round-up of how we want to do them. I tried no to influence them, that is, I said that the materials could take any form, they could be a worksheet (my style) or like loose activities like the ones they developed.

We’ll try to teach with the materials between the second and third week of June before S leaves for England and I have to substitute her. Nice :S but it’s the least I could do when they are always so amazingly supportive and don’t get paid for all this extra time.