Journals review from week 12 -15

We started the class with the Halloween and the day of the deads
presentations. tradition is to build altars were they put the picture of the
deceased and they decorate with flowers, with papers with different
color, candles, etc. they also add some favorite food and beverages of
the departed. This day people bakes bread called Pan de Muerto which
is sweetened soft bread, often decorated with bone-shaped phalanges
pieces. People usually go to the cemetery to visit the graves and the
visitors also leave possessions of the deceased at the graves.
There was another presentation about the day of the dead also, which
was almost the same information and three presentations were about
the origins of Halloween.
We finished the class with a presentation that talked aboutChristian
Halloween, she is Christian so she talked about her point of view and
believes about Halloween and why she doesnt celebrate it.
I learn more about this traditions and also that every person has
different believes and shouldnt judge them.

Journal
week 13.

We started the class with the words and the Quotes of the week we
hadnt mention. Our word of this week was Recondite which means
relating to or dealing with very deep, difficult, obscure, or abstract

subject matter:a recondite treatise. An example with this word is: Like
all casuists, he took for granted that morality was a recondite science,
beyond" the reach of all but the learned.
And our quote of the week was: Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get Benjamin Franklin
After every team said their quotes and their words we started with the
next topic which was How to answer in exams specially in testing
We saw a PowerPoint presentation about El marconacional de
referencia from 2008, they were in Spanish and the teacher talked
about Reuninnacional escolar and Direccin general de acreditacin,
incorporacin y revalidacin.
Also we saw the competencias which were:

Oral y auditiva
Escrita o de lectura
Expresin o produccin oral
Interaccin oral
Expresin o produccin escrita

We just finished the class with this same topic.

Journal week #14

We started the class with a question that was How to deal with
frustration in class (as B.A. students? We had to make a writing
answering the question; we had around 20 to 30 minutes to do it.
First of all we need to be organized with ourselves and with our stuff so
we could have everything in its place. When the teacher assigns a task
or assignment we have to stop and start to think of any ideas to
complete the task, like a brain storm before starting, then we have to
start the task by developing each idea to have them clearer and finally
we have to be sure that we reach our goal for this assignment.

After we finished with this task everyone share their answer to this
question, there were lots of points of view but most had the same idea.
This is how we finished the class and I learn different strategies to deal
with frustration in class.

JOURNAL
WEEK 15
We started the class with the words of the weeks, every group
mentioned their word.
Then we saw a video about Trying when its hard in the classroom, this
video took place in a classroom were the teacher was trying to make a
student participate but that student had a bad attitude and he didnt
wanted to participate. But the teacher made a solution for 4 steps to
solve this problem which were:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Ask for watch

Ask for help
Ask for a break
Review skill steps

After that the teacher divided the group into two parts so we could
discuss about this video with questions like What would you to?, how
would you react?, Do you agree with the teacher? after discussing
everyone gave their opinion. In my point of view I agree with the teacher
but until certain point because maybe his steps were really good but not
for the age of this student, he was like 19 or 20, and the teacher was
doing examples for the student and helping him to write the answers,
also the teacher said that we are in the classroom to learn because we
dont know everything and thats why we go to school, I do agree with
this but I think that at this age we are able to do things by ourselves and
we need to try things before in order to get them right.
We finished the class with two more videos strategies for studentscentered discussion and New teacher survival guide-classroom
management in the second one was mention three steps for teachers
which were teaching ask and assess.