My CLIL Science Corner

 💖 Hi teachers! 💖 Just three school days for our desired and deserved Christmas break 😉!  I'm sure you have worked very hard writing your lessons plans, creating your own materials, dealing with classroom management, attending meetings, working during the weekend... Yes, as teachers, sometimes we think we are superheroes with superpowers and we end up  the first term overwhelmed.  At the beginning of each school year,  I promise myself it is going to be different. I try to convince myself that I will only be working during the week, but this never happens. I end up working at school, after the school and at weekends. Too often, as teachers, we think we must create all our resources and that is really exhausting and time-consuming. Does this sound familiar to you? If it does, keep reading 👇👇 As many of you, I have been creating my own resources, but then I realised I didn't have free time for me and my hobbies. That is why this term I have started implementi...

  Morning! Today's post is about Cooperative Learning . Cooperative Learning seems to be in style nowadays, but Cooperative Learning has had a lot of supporters for decades. In the school where I have been working for 11 years, cooperative learning has been present in our classes for at least two decades. Since I started working in this school, I have been applying some cooperative learning techniques, but discovering KAGAN STRUCTURES in a training course for teachers was a turning point. Have you ever heard about KAGAN STRUCTURES? Kagan Structures was developed by Dr Spencer Kagan in the 80s. Some months ago I couldn't help buying his book " Kagan Cooperative Learning ". This book is a must if you want to implement cooperative learning in your class. The book is divided into 17 chapters and it deals with both more theoretical concepts and structures that you can do in your class. The theoretical concepts are easy to read and they clarify questions about cooperative ...

Happy Thursday! Today I want to share something I introduce in my CLIL Science lessons a year ago. Do you use BITMOJIS to motivate your students? A couple of years ago, I discovered bitmojis on instagram thanks to Alba Sabuco from  @parentesis.educacion  and I immediately fell in love with them. So I decided to use bitmojis to motivate my students' progress. I selected five bitmojis and I created a template so that my students could be aware of their progress in: ✔️ Participation ✔️ Group Work ✔️ English (if they use English to communicate with the teacher and their classmates) ✔️ Content I turned the bitmojis into stickers photocopying the bitmojis in adhesive paper. Then I cut them and kept them in little boxes (one for each type of bitmoji) . Then I gave a copy of the template to each student. I promise that the involvementt in my classes changed a lot: more students were participating, more students were using English, more students were engaged in group work.... They want...