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03
Oct 15

6 Apps to help others.

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photo credit: ipad via photopin (license)

Teaching children empathy and offer them the tools to learn how to help others is a fundamental task that neither parents nor teachers can forget.

The kids must understand the value of work, work with a friend, do something different and important to change the world and show others you care about.

Sometimes, It costs us teach these values ​​to children because they have the tools to do. So in today's post I am going to leave 6 applications and teach your children the importance of working students, care for the planet and more.

Are you ready to change the world? 😉

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English / Means — Leave a Comment
27
Sep 15

Teaching with actual materials in the English classroom.

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When we speak of teaching languages ​​to adults, using real materials is commonplace and common classes. But when it comes to children, It is somewhat less common and widespread. It seems that we should teach children to adapt texts and materials, and we are not very used to teach with real materials. Sincerely, I think this is a mistake for several reasons.

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English / Means — 2 comments
20
Sep 15

PE resources to work in English.

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photo credit: Base Path via photopin (license)

Increasingly, the cabbages are jumping on the bandwagon of bilingualism, and more and more schools decide to start teaching English at an early age. In the past week, I received an email from Mireia, a reader who told me that this year is "facing" the challenge of teaching physical education in English, specifically in early childhood education.

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Means — 2 comments
13
Sep 15

4 tricks to teach kids to write.

4 basicos para enseñar a los peques a escribir

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The course has just begun, and certainly there are many teachers who are just out of college begin their wanderings in this wonderful world.

I am convinced that most of these new, and not so new teachers, they are now looking for resources to teach certain skills than, however much they work in textbooks, do not the way we would like.

In today's post, I will specifically address the issue of the writing. First, because it is one of the issues that most concern not only teachers, but also parents. Y, in second place, because this year the kids who have grown up with me, go to first grade, and I hope this helps a little to their moms and dads.

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Infographics — 1 comment
06
Sep 15

9 Tricks to make it easier to return to school.

9 portada_Vamos tricks growing

September is a difficult month for all. On the one hand, just we got back from our vacation, and both major and small suffer a little bit of “famous” Post-holiday syndrome.

On the other hand, it's time to prepare everything for next year, the shopping, the races, and inevitably make us all a little uphill until we get back into the routine.

In today's post, I leave a infographic with 9 Tricks what for, as far as possible, make back to school a little easier.

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Books — 16 comments
18
Aug 15

The Slight Edge. The small advantage that will make you different.

The slight edge

As you know, this month Alvaro and I are "living" in Greece. Alvaro continues its work, and I'm taking advantage to study, read and prepare materials and content for next year.

Just today I finished a book I would like to share with you. I know I usually do not talk about the books I read on the blog, but I think it's good to share the positive experiences, and we believe that they can bring to others as provide us.

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Experiences — 2 comments
10
Aug 15

Traveling throughout the summer and will not break in the attempt.

Traveling all summer

You are profe, have more than two months off and you do not know what to do with your time during the summer?

Valley, sure what you do not know what to do with your time is not quite real ... Summer in the end we are all flies and knows us to little, but the question is, Have you taken advantage of the summer and really could?

True, the budget that the teachers have is very tight. Valley, very, very, but tight, but I assure you can, you only need two things: organize and choose an economically affordable destination.

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Present — Leave a Comment
31
Jul 15

This summer your photos with the owl iKidz are prize!

We are ikidz

You want to start the course debuting books?

This September iKidz opens, and I'm so so happy I want you to begin releasing the course reading books, English course! 😉

As I have kids of all ages, I chose two books of very different levels, as far as possible, to adapt to the winners.

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Technologies — 4 comments
27
Jul 15

4 Minecraft based educational programs.

Sometimes teachers we endeavor to follow the same teaching methodologies always, despite realizing that they are not causing the effect it should and that our students get bored as oysters. The point is, Why do we insist? Do we think our students? Or thinking about us?

On occasion I mentioned in my post Minecraft, a game that caused and continues to cause a stir among the kids and not so little ones. Luckly, many professionals who have seen the educational potential of this game and have developed effective educational programs based on it. In today's post, we will see these programs.

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Means — Leave a Comment
19
Jul 15

How to turn our class.

Some time ago, I became fashionable model called flipped classroom. The meaning, as its name suggests, It is "to turn the class", raise it a different way to produce really meaningful learning.

For me, summer is a time to take the opportunity to retrain, find resources and alternatives in order to improve the way that I have to teach my students. So today, I decided to research and write about the flipped classroom idea but, above all, on tools that will enable us "to turn our class".

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