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School Visit

IES URIBE-KOSTA BHI

www.uribekostabhi.org

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  • (9:00-9:30 ) Opening speech. A210
  • (9:30-10:30) Students explain projects (A207, A107).
  • (10:30-11:00) Final meeting for feedback. A210

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School characteristics

  • Public School
  • Education level: Secondary School, High School.
  • Students' age: 12-16 - compulsory, 16-18 non- compulsory.
  • Number of students: 494
  • Number of teachers: 60

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Languages

Innovation from the School point of view

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Ingredients for the recipe:

  • All the School, not THAT teacher.
  • Guidelines in the Language Project
  • Language Commision
    • Basque, English, Spanish
  • The main idea: Languages help each other: CTL (Coordinated Teaching of Languages)
  • The tools: new techs (Google Apps)
  • The method: Project-work.

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Google Apps for Education

    • Google Apps: a unique key for multiple services on the cloud
      • mail, sites, calendars, maps, video, audio broadcasting, blogs, docs ...
    • Flexibility.
      • You can group the users
      • You can open or close the permissions as much as you want (only for you, for a group, for the domain or for all the world)
    • Focused on colaboration

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What is Project-work? Pros

  • PBL, the theory
  • Students are the stars, active players.
  • They create something that can be seen, touched, read, ...
  • Their work starts and ends outside the school. We share it with our local environment or in the Net.
  • Better students?

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What is project-work? Cons

  • Fears
  • Doubts
  • Patience
  • Different methodology

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  • We try to CONSTRUCT knowledge.
  • The students are "the stars"
  • We propose, we guide, they dispose
  • Different results, better results?

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TECHNOLOGY + PROJECT WORK + METHODOLOGY

Coordinated Teaching of Languages

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CTL (COORDINATED TEACHING OF LANGUAGES)

IDEA: make the most of the fact that all languages share many features

WHAT FOR: to improve our students´ communicative competence

HOW: CTL COMMISSION Basque+Spanish+English

BATZEN

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CTL COMMISSION: TASKS

  • Design a FRAMEWORK: Language Project

  • Coordinate and supervise projects

      • COMMISSION DEPARTMENTS CLASSROOM

  • Organise training sessions to explain projects

  • Involve and engage as many teachers as possible

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SOME OF OUR PROJECTS

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PHOTOCOMPLAINT: THE IDEA

  • A school project to complain about the things we do not like around us.
  • Social dimension: our town, our school...
  • Describe, explain and opinion.
  • ICT TOOLS: mail, Picasa, Google+

http://fotosalaketak.uribekostabhi.com/

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PHOTOCOMPLAINT: THE RESULTS

  • More than 400 photographs and complaints

https://plus.google.com/photos/109982839742083132086/albums?banner=pwa

  • Our selection : http://goo.gl/wevpo

  • Our video: http://goo.gl/p2pPW

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MY FIRST TIME: THE IDEA

  • To use students´personal experience as a starting point: personal dimension
  • To deal with narrative-descriptive texts
  • Proposal: http://roberto.uribekostabhi.com/project-4
  • ICT tools: Google Drive (Docs+Presentations)

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MY FIRST TIME: THE RESULTS

http://goo.gl/18tl5

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HEAVEN & HELL: THE IDEA

  • To use personal experience to relate events.
  • To deal with narrative-descriptive texts.
  • Proposal: http://roberto.uribekostabhi.com/project-3
  • ICT tools: Google Docs, Google Maps

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HEAVEN & HELL: THE RESULTS

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CORRIDORS: A READING PROJECT

http://roberto.uribekostabhi.com/project-1

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QR CODES: DESCRIBING OUR LANDMARKS

  • To describe the landmarks in our towns.
  • Social dimension:
    • collaborate with the Town Hall
    • real communicative situation
  • ICT tools: Google Docs, vocaroo voice recorder.

  • The proposal

https://sites.google.com/a/uribekostabhi.com/qr/

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QR CODES: THE RESULTS

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CLIL, 3 years on the road

  • Organization: 4+3
  • Students selection criteria
  • Subjects that we teach
  • Mariavi http://goo.gl/UhKvH
  • Karmele http://goo.gl/o6WY6
  • Assistant teacher: Taylor Ruppel

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Kuentalibros

  • Using social networks to improve language skills
  • Read Literature to write about many aspects

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PIROPO COMPETITION: PAY ME A COMPLIMENT

  • A project suggested by a teacher and organized and coordinated by students

http://goo.gl/CYz1O