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Sea 15

Chess in the classroom.

Chess in the classroom

Surely you have heard or read about this issue because it is of key education issues currently circulating.

Paul Martin, PSOE deputy, has made a non-legislative proposal to convert chess in a subject in cabbage, and it seems that this proposal has been welcomed by the other political parties.

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26
Oct 14

How to learn English with themed activities. Halloween.

photo credit: Nenortas Photography via photopin cc

photo credit: Nenortas Photography via photopin cc

Teach children languages ​​or new vocabulary through thematic activities is a great way to create a specific context, so the child to focus on what he is learning.

Themed activities can be used for almost any block vocabulary. I use them a lot because I used to catch the attention of children and, further, arouse interest. These activities, provided they are well silvery, you start introducing vocabulary and children end up asking the rest.

In today's post we will see what is a thematic activity, Now coming Halloween night, one of the parties most famous Anglo-Saxon origin, we will raise an activity that you can make with the kids that day, plus some songs that you consolidéis concepts.

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27
Apr 14

Key points about the bits of intelligence.

Image courtesy of Freerangestock

Image courtesy of Freerangestock

As many of you know, the past 30 of March, I had the privilege to participate as a speaker in the I Congress of Educating Learning Childhood Education, you can see the video Youtube, or if you prefer, check presentation Slideshare. One of the topics, for matter of time, I could not try was the theme of the bits of intelligence. While I talked about some games you can make with bits, You can see them in detail in the post, "The game. Key learning of the smaller ", we did not see how to make them and how they should go to the kids to really be effective and efficient, so I wanted to dedicate this post to this topic.

The theme of the bits of intelligence is a controversial topic that every teacher has spoken at some point in their career. Some assert categorically the effectiveness of this method, while others say it is not as effective as outlined.

En este post, My goal is that all know what are the bits of intelligence and you are capable of making them yourself. Further, I want to tell you first hand as has been my experience using them in the English classroom.

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15
Dec 13

How language affects the understanding of children and how to stimulate it.

Undoubtedly, there are many parents who know the importance of communication and language with their children, but few really know the true extent you may have this communication and how it can affect the development and understanding of small.

On this topic, there is a statement that after numerous studies can do: the intelligence of children is directly related to the number of words that they have heard from birth to age three.

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