PRÁCTICAS DISCURSIVAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN ORAL III – MARZO 2020

MÓDULO DE TRABAJO DOMICILIARIO

¡Hola a todos! Mediante este módulo de trabajo domiciliario daremos comienzo a la cursada de Práscticas Discursivas de la Comunicación Escrita III con el propósito de garantizarles la continuidad pedagógica del ciclo lectivo 2020.

Me presento brevemente, en caso de que alguien no haya cursado alguna materia conmigo aún. Mi nombre es María Julia Scheffer, soy Traductora Pública por la UNLP y me desempeño como docente del ISFDyT N°48 desde el año 2014 y como docente del Profesorado de Inglés desde el año 2016. Dicto materias en los cuatro años del Profesorado por lo que ya he acompañado la trayectoria educativa dentro del Nivel Superior de muchos de ustedes y lo seguiré haciendo.

En caso de tener alguna duda o inconveniente con la resolución del módulo, pueden contactarse conmigo a través de mi correo electrónico: mjuliascheffer@gmail.com. La entrega del módulo resuelto también deberá hacerse a través del mencionado correo; las diferentes consignas tienen diferentes fechas límite especificadas al final de cada ítem.

TASKS:

1) LISTENING COMPREHENSION: DEADLINE viernes 27 de marzo de 2020

a) Read sentences 1–8 based on Bill Gates’ TED Talk, Teachers need real feedback. Match thewords in bold with their definitions (a–h).

1 Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player or a bridge player.

2 If all my coach told me was that I was ‘satisfactory’, I would have no hope of getting better.

3 There’s one group who get almost no systematic feedback to help them do their jobs.

4 When we learned how little useful feedback most teachers get, we were blown away.

5 There are no international ranking tables for teacher feedback systems. 6 We need highly skilled teachers to help students improve in areas like reading proficiency.

7 We’re changing the way we evaluate teaching skills.

8 These helpful diagnostic tools pointed to specific places where they can improve.

a think carefully about something in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses ____________________

b techniques used to find and identify a problem ____________________

c lists of items from the best to the worst ____________________

d good enough ____________________

e careful and thorough ____________________

f ability or skill in something ____________________

g a card game played in teams of two players ____________________

h very surprised ____________________

b) Watch Bill Gates’ talk on TED.com. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F), according to the speaker?

1 In general, teachers receive a lot of feedback. _____

2 Receiving the word ‘satisfactory’ as feedback can help you improve your practice. _____

3 The USA’s students are in the top ten of countries for reading proficiency. _____

4 Shanghai is a good example of how helping teachers improve can raise students’

performance. _____

5 Teachers who did well in observations in the MET project had very good results

with students. _____

6 Sarah didn’t benefit from videoing her lessons. _____

7 Bill Gates hopes that all classrooms will look like Sarah’s in the future. _____

8 There are several challenges to building an effective teacher feedback system. _____

9 Bill Gates suggests that one way of making teachers feel comfortable videoing their lessons is to say that no one except them will watch it. _____

c) Watch the talk from 3.03–5.27. Which ways of helping teachers be more effective are used by the schools in Shanghai (S)? Which ways are used in the Measures of Effective Teaching project (MET)?

1 Teachers get a chance to watch master teachers at work. _____

2 Students fill out surveys about the lessons. _____

3 Teachers get together in weekly study groups to talk about what’s working. _____

4 Teachers observe their colleagues and give them feedback. _____

5 Observers watch videos of teachers in the classroom and rate their lessons. _____

d) Find words or phrases in the sentences from Exercise c) with the following meanings.

1 watch (a lesson) ____________________

2 tell someone about what they did and how well they did it ____________________

3 meet with other people ____________________

4 decide how good something is, evaluate it ____________________

5 complete in writing ____________________

6 be given an opportunity ____________________

2) TRANSCRIPTION: transcribe the following conversation (DEADLINE 3/4/2020, to be checked in class!)