Organization and class distribution / timing

The Organization and class distribution / timing:

The methodology used will guarantee the coherence among the didactic unit. In order to guarantee this coherence a series of frame principles of educational intervention can be extracted and structured around the following axes:
- Starting from students´ level of development: considering the characteristics of the group and their previous knowledge.
- Fostering the construction of meaningful learning and showing the functionality of learning.
- Taking into account students´ s characteristics: the logical, psychological and socio-practical implication of the contents.
- Attract students´ attention in order to promote the transference of learning.
- Encouraging students´ capacity for learning to learn: developing an “effort-based culture” that will favor students´ autonomy.
- Giving impulse to students´ development of mental activity: working in continuous participation with activities regarding using previous ideas, participating in debates…
- Fostering communication and social interaction: developing the cognitive and socialization capacity has become increasingly important.

As an example:

Tables and chairs space: Depending on the activity, I will organize the tables in different ways, if the activity need an individual work, the tables will be separated; if the activity is in pairs, I will organize the tables in pairs; if the activity need a whole group work, we will organize the tables like a “U”, I will be in the middle of the “U” and when they participate in the class, all their classmates will be able to see their gestures, their materials, and all the students will be at the same distance from the teacher.

Blackboard and whiteboard: they are very important in the classroom, so they have to be in a very visible space, and it is in front of the “U”.

Recycling corner: in their classroom, students will have a corner with three different bins: blue bin (paper), yellow bin (plastic and bricks) and green bin (organic rubbish).

Reading corner: the reading corner is a big cardboard with a table in which appears their names with white cells where they have to write the books they will read in English.

Projects corner: this corner is bigger, each child will have a cardboard on the wall, and during the unit students have to complete it with vocabulary learnt and arts and crafts they make.

Lesson time: March (End of the Second Term- Spring time)- 7 different sessions of 45 minutes each.