Júlia Bosch Vercher

AULAS FELICES When it comes to education, providing students with knowledge is not the only matter to take into account. Apart from it, one has to bear in mind that a suitable environment is essential and that it is necessary that it covers certain aspects and necessities. Among them, it is important to promote a unifying model in which everyone has the opportunity to access education. Also, and as it has been previously mentioned, academic knowledge is not the only teaching students should receive since it is crucial that they are provided with educative proposals that contribute to promote positive psychology and enrich their personal strengths. This is precisely the objective the program “Aulas Felices" seeks and here there are some activities that it proposes in order to do so.  1. Famous texts about happiness or the meaning of life Level : 3rd stage of Primary Education and Secondary Education  Objectives : Appreciate the ideas about happiness of famou...

ASPECTS WE MAY CONSIDER WHEN ASKING QUESTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM When it comes to delivering a lesson, the teacher must take into account several aspects. Among them, there is not only the content or how it is displayed and explained to students.  Actually, the way in which questions are asked can also be a key strategy to improve the learning process. Thus, some of the techniques that might be useful when approaching this issue in a classroom will be described next. Display and referential questions The teacher must be aware of the fact that he or she can ask his or her students either display or referential questions: - Referential refers to the type of questions the teacher does not know the answer to. I.e. “What did you do last weekend?” - Display questions are those the teacher knows the answer to. But not only that, the student is also aware of the fact that the teacher knows the answer. I.e. “Which is the past simple form of the ve...

SCAFFOLDING AND DIFFERENTIATION  Scaffolding is a method that allows a student to find the solution to a problem, do a task or accomplish an objective through a process divided in stages and supported by external assistance. In this case, the tasks proposed in order to implement this method are contextualised in an English language class for Spanish students and are divided in the next way: The teacher starts a debate about social media and free speech by asking some questions about the topic  The students and the teacher share their experiences and opinions regarding the subject  Vocabulary related to the topic is introduced by the teacher. It will appear in a text that he or she will later give them  The teacher gives the students a text, which deals with social media and free speech  For homework, they have to answer some questions about it  As it can bee seen, the activity to be completed is reading a text and understand it so to be able to...