Innovació docent i iniciació a la investigació educativa en la llengua anglesa

This third assignment deals with an article we read called "Classroom Pedagogics" , in which an important aspect in the classroom setting was analysed: What do teachers have to bear in mind when asking questions to students? Which is the best way to ask students about something? According to the article, one of the aspects teachers should take into account is that they should increase the proportion of referential questions, that is, questions in which teachers do not know the answer. Normally, display questions are the ones used in class, which are those in which the teacher already knows the answer. Therefore, s/he knows the kind of answers students are expected to say and interaction diminishes. Moreover, teachers should also increase the number of open questions used in class, since they make students think about their answers and they increase teacher-student interaction by promoting further talk on the topic. The article also suggests that teachers can use, at

There are several teaching techniques that can be used in the classroom setting to promote learning. In one of our lessons, we learnt about two of them: differentiation and scaffolding. The second of our assignments was to think about two activities, in which we were using them as teachers. On the one hand, the differentiation technique is based on the assumption that there are different types of learners in our classroom and teachers should accomodate their teaching, topics and content to their abilities, by giving them different tasks to reach a similar aim. For example, if we want to teach connectors to our students, we can give them a text about the same story, but, depending on their level, each student will be given the text with more or less connectors. Once they have understood their meaning and function, we will have the students with a greater amount of connectors work with those who had less connectors, so that, at the end of the lesson, all students will have learnt