Summer holidays and preparing September
Our classes at the Lycée Astier are pretty much over now, except for testing and corrections and meetings, but these will go on until the first week of July or so. Some of you have said your school year is ending, or has already ended, and one thing we all need as teachers is some time away from our students, to recharge for the next year.
Still, I think it'll help if we can toss around some ideas as to what sort of activities we can do with our students next year, especially what we can do to start the year in September. I'd like to get the project started with something that will make all our students realize that their education and their lives will be more and more linked to a greater community - a Europe-wide community. We mustn't let the recent referendums on the European constitution discourage this wider community building effort.
Please, respond to this message, describing your school, your students and what you'd like to do next September. I've already given some of my ideas in a nearby message, but this needs to be a group effort, a group concept.
Cheers, --- Phil
Still, I think it'll help if we can toss around some ideas as to what sort of activities we can do with our students next year, especially what we can do to start the year in September. I'd like to get the project started with something that will make all our students realize that their education and their lives will be more and more linked to a greater community - a Europe-wide community. We mustn't let the recent referendums on the European constitution discourage this wider community building effort.
Please, respond to this message, describing your school, your students and what you'd like to do next September. I've already given some of my ideas in a nearby message, but this needs to be a group effort, a group concept.
Cheers, --- Phil
posted by PhilB at 12:33 PM
3 Comments:
In Italy we have a similar situation. We’ll go on until the first week of July but only to have meetings and examinations for the last classes.
I agree with you about tossing around some ideas to let our “living space” work . September is far but we have to organize ideas and activities to have a better start. I was thinking about the title of our project asking myself what spaces are most attended by our students. Surely schools, squares, libraries, cinemas, pubs…they are living spaces, so, my idea is: why don’t we describe these places comparing how our teenagers use them?
We could use pictures and videos and prepare questionaries to understand different living spaces in differen living cultural reality. What do you think?
Enza
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Pardon me! The post above was in anonymous because I wrote a wrong username. Well, I answered the question I asked you....ehehehe
Enza, that sounds like a great approach: focusing on the "Living Spaces" that students use in their daily lives: "schools, squares, libraries, cinemas, pubs"
Students can:
- describe those "spaces"
- describe how they use those spaces
- write a story about something happening in those spaces (real or imagined)
- take pictures of those spaces
- ask their distant partners how their "spaces" are different
- ask questions about their partners' descriptions
- etc
Another possibility (perhaps later in the year) would be to deal with "virtual spaces" - and this might be a topic that would interest our technical or computer-oriented colleagues.
Come on now, folks, this is a place for *brainstorming*. Bring out your ideas, exchange, express, contribution. But it won't work if you don't write!
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