Catchy tips for intelligent teachers!!!

Catchy tips for intelligent teachers

By: Danny Bajaña

Each of us has different talents and developed affinities that allow us learn and remember things easier than others. That’s why we tend to acquire and express what we learn in different ways.
The way students show what they have learned can help us reflect on it to apply new techniques in our class. Teachers’ challenge is to catch students’ attention, and one way to do it is including activities and explanations that cover all the intelligences.

• Try to look all your learners while talking
• When asking about what Ss. have learned, include feelings, opinions and descriptions
• Restate what students say, so they are sure they explained right their ideas
• These tips will help keep students’ attention and increase their participation

What can work in your class?

Using Virtual Courses (Plattforms)

Do you know what a virtual platform is? Have you ever used virtual courses with your students?. Well, a virtual course is a webpage that allows you to create assignments, forums, chatting, uploading files, creating tests, and others. Nowadays many schools and universities around the world have implemented virtual courses in their curriculums and according to educational experts, this have become into a powerful and successful tool for teaching.
Not going too far, this year in my school, teachers started to work with virtual courses and they found interesting results. At the beginning there was some rejection for using them from teachers as well as students. Teachers said it was time-consuming and difficult to create things or upload documents while students said it was boring. But, this changed when teachers as well as students , little by little were getting used to use the platform and found out that is easy and fast to use it once you are familiar with the options and links it includes , you don’t use paper , you can check your grade and receive feedback while your are at home, you can work on many projects and save it in a personal platform database and others.
So, if you haven’t worked with virtual courses and you have the opportunity to implement it with your students, don’t think too much and tried it, you and your students would love it.

by Hugo Velasco

Vacations are all the way around different now

Generally speaking in Ecuador vacations are considered for students from all ages either for spare time or for traveling to get out of the school system and routine. I remember spending every single vacation doing all kind of activities but I actually never took advantage of those days, maybe learning something useful besides playing football soccer and swimming, typical sports in Ecuador. Maybe this was due to the lack of available information and variety of options. When I say useful I mean like learning how to use better the technology, taking advantage of its programs for future purposes and learning how to play no traditional sports or do innovative activities that can lead the student or even baby to a higher level of sociality, intelligence and interaction with others.

Nowadays institutions offer professional services to those parents and students interested in investing their money and time in the country during vacations. From the fact institutions receive children from 2 months until 5 years old, implementing updated methodologies and exercises to exploit the children’s skills and abilities according to their ages of course( Early stimulation, Brain Gym, cooking, dancing, music, cheerleading and more). Likewise they open their doors to older children, from 6 to 15 years old implementing different but appropriate strategies to provide a learning regarding technology and healthy entertainment such as sports like Personal defense, modeling and on the other hand Multimedia and 2D animation workshop, Emotional intelligence workshop.

From 14 years old onward there are more activities focused on higher skills and objectives as well such as Tennis like sports and web pages design, Fireworks 8, Flash 8( elemental), Introduction to HTML and much more. Moreover it’s worth mentioning all this activities( physical and Mental) are chosen and combined by the students with their parent’s contentment. The cost varies but it’s worth it to satisfy the need of making a good choice and do not waste precious time that if is spent wisely will bring about positive changes in the future.
For more Information about institutions offering this contact to: www.logosacademy.edu.ec or www. cees.edu.ec

By Jorge Jimenez G.