End of something good, beginning of something better

Hello everyone!

This post comes a bit late, but I hope you can enjoy it as the rest that I have written, or even more ;)

I have to say as well that it is the last post we have to make for this subject and, for this reason, I would like to do a little summary about the things I have learnt and I liked the most in this semester.

We started the subject with some content based things that we should now like the difference between phonetics and phonology, the meaning of literacy or the dimensions of literacy, but very soon we went into more practical activities in which we practice by ourselves the things we were learning.

I am sure that all or nearly all of my classmates can remember the “Chocolate cake” video of Michael Rosen, or the different versions of Cinderella (we even created a “map” with our own version), or the storytelling each group in our class created.

We also had some lessons in which we were responsible of creating activities with a QR code, a Glogster or even dress ourselves as one of the characters of Aladdin’s film because some students from a school had to come and we had to teach them some contents using the film.

People can think “well, you were just having fun in your lessons, but you did not learn anything”. And my answer to this is: you really do not know how good is to learn things at the same time as you are having fun with your teacher and your classmates.

I can say now, at the end of the semester, that I have learnt a lot of new things and I am also sure that my classmates and I are full of new resources, techniques, activities, contents and so on to face English Literature in our future lessons with Primary Students.

Just to finish with, I would like to say that my feelings about this last post are very different: on one hand I feel a bit more free now because I have felt a bit stress with all the projects we had to do, not only in this subject, but on the other hand, every time I look into the past (recent past) the things that I remember the most are the good moments I had as I was working on these projects and how many things I can do now that I could not do before.

Thank you very much for visiting! :)

2 thoughts on “End of something good, beginning of something better

  1. Hi Yolanda!
    I was commenting last week on a Carmen’s post, because I had the necessity to say something on it! And it was a bit similar of yours.
    When I started the subject I felt like: OMG! Are we going to study English literature? ahaha but now I can say that this subject, for me, has been one of the most important on my degree, and one where I have learnt a lot.
    One day Matthew told us, that “it doesn’t matter what you know” that the most important thing is what you can do with the things that you know…and I think that this subject represent that…how can you create amazing lesson, and teach a lot of contents, with not expensive materials, or contents full of information. The only thing that you have to do is have patience and!
    It’s a little bit sad, see that we are ending this degree, but I am sure that the best things are coming now!
    Thank you for your post! It was great read it!

    One day Matthew told us, that “it doesn’t matter what you know” that the most important thing is what you can do with the things that you know…and i think that this subject represent that…how can you créate amazing lesson, and teach a lot of contents, with not expensive materials, or contents full of imformation!

  2. Hi Yolanda! You have related so clearly, most of the works we did and how we all feel now that the subject is almost finish and anybody couldn’t say that we haven’t really learnt anything because as you said; if we are enjoying with the things we did and all the interest and effort we put on doing it we are really engaged and we feel comfortable with the projects.

    In my opinion, you are completely wright, it has been an adventure this subject and most subjects we have had during the degree because we have tried to do our best in all. I think that we should continue having this disposition in our live, of trying to make our students feel closer to literacy and to the lesson we will explain as teachers, I’m sure they will learn a lot from the best teachers they will ever had. Another reason based on my experience, why we are going to teach our students so well, is because we could know the weakness they could have and we are going to facilitate them the learning process.

    Now that we have learnt so much about children literature, we will use most of the resources and activities we have being dealing with and during this term, because they are so funny and it has help us to know each other better and know for example which types of books we used to read when we were younger. Moreover learning how those topics as rhymes and poetry those are a little bit narrower we will make a better approach to them for our students.

    To conclude I would add that is not important what other think about how we learnt, the key point is we have learnt and how we are going to transmit those knowledge.

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