Seminar on November 17th

Next seminar we’ll deal with the linguistic competence as described  by ISEI-IVEI.  As you already know, developing key competences is an important issue in our curriculum. Since we are involved in developing both content and foreign language I think that we should be particularly aware of what is involved in developing the linguist competence. In addition to that, I hope we’ll be able to start wikiing together!

A new school year and here we are!

                                                                                                                                       

We’ll have our first seminar on October 19th. I’ve already spoken with some of you on the phone or through emails so this is the plan I’ve prepared for our first day, trying to meet your needs and timetables: 

• Introduction and news about compulsory assessment plans in the Basque Country.
• Eleanitza seminar plan
• Subject planning or “programazioa”
• Content and language
• Assessment in CLIL

2009 Workshop on Blogs

How are we getting on? Just a pice of news: This year IKASBLOGAK 2009 will be held in Leioa. Those interested in that event just click and you’ll be able to get more information: place, date, detailed program, etc.

Getxolinguae 2009

Here you are Getxolinguae 2009

Unfortunately I could only attend the  first day’s lectures. It was really interesting.  As you can see I’ve also embedded Felipe Zayas’s presentation slideshare. We’ll talk about it next seminar!

Competencia Comunicativa y TIC

View more presentations from Felipe Zayas.

BLOGS and WIKIS

Just a few words to present you BLOGGEANDO

Here you may get lots of information about lots of things but I’d like to emphasize their course on blogging (see ‘Cómo hacer un blog’ inside a widget called Edublogs) and wikis in ‘Curso sobre wikis’ in a widget called ‘Nuestros wikis’

Wikis in plain English

How do you like this video on wikis?

ICT in the classroom

How do you like this video? What’s the situation in our schools?

What about using polls?

Please answer this poll and we’ll discuss how to use it!

ELTons winners

WINNERS OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL ELTONS 2009!!

Winners of the British Council English Language Teaching Awards for Innovation (ELTons) 2009

UK category winners:

- Magazines Plus – Online English Environment Mary Glasgow Magazines – Sarah Johnson, Sarah Bromley, Peter Mahnke – http://maryglasgowmagazines.com/

- TEFLclips.com – Interactive resource for teachers Independent entry – Jamie Keddie- http://www.teflclips.com

- Aviation English – English course for pilots Macmillan Education – Anna Cowper, Andy Roberts, Henry Emery, James Greenan http://www.macmillanenglish.com/aviationenglish/index.html

International Category winner: – English Language Textbooks for Mongolian Secondary Schools – Course English Language Teachers’ Association of Mongolia (ELTAM), Mongolia – Ulziijargal Sanjaasuren and the Curriculum Development and Textbook Writing Team

The awards are both a celebration of excellence in ELT and an incentive to the ELT industry and worldwide ELT community to keep on developing new products. The next awards ceremony will take place in London on March 2010. Visit the ELTons site to find out more about the winners and the ceremony (including videos and photo gallery) – http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-eltons.htm

February 17th seminar: Diagnostic Assessment

Just a few words to sum up our seminar contents: Diagnostic Assessment in Spain.

First of all the ISEI-IVEI website. There we can read about linguistic competence, its dimensions and get  test samples to measure students’ competence in Basque and Spanish.

On the MEC website we can get the the report of the evaluation carried out in 2001 in which   secondary students’ level of English was measured.

On Educastur website we can get samples, specifications and reports of the English test they used to assess students’ competence in oral English.

Other than that, we consider very useful to examine Bergen cando levels: they may be used for the students’ portfolios but also they can provide us with ideas to use in our own assessment schemes.

Finally, Cambridge ESOL exam resources. By the end of their compulsory education students should be able to get a B1 level according to the Common European Framework.  Cambridge PET exam measures just that level and free samples and explanations of the way the exam is carried out, specifications of the language required etc. may be downloaded .