My activities are more competent than yo

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Title of my workshop Speaker’s Name “My activities are more competent than yours!” Enric Calvet

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My activities are more competent(ial) than yours! You sure?

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CLASSIFY THINKING CONTENT A ladybird is an invertebrate. It is an insect LANGUAGE INTERACTION Yes, Bernat. This is easy! IDENTIFY

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Enric Calvet, 2009 COMPETENT ACTIVITY Interdisciplinary Art Maths Music Science ICT ... How should we plan an activity (an activity with the presence of languages) to become a competent activity? Content Use of the language Oral Written Diff. lang. registers Always with a good linguistic model Language Individual & Collective work To be To act To think To communicate To discover To lead To live together To share Interaction As a tool to work Reasoning Argumentation Understanding Making hypotheses Drawing conclusions Interpretation Organizing ideas Explaining/Describing Attitudes Starting from prior knowledge Being conscious about the competences we work Having clear objectives Defining assessment criteria Scaffolding Process and outcome Contextualizing the activity Involvement Cognition Thinking Challanging but feasible Challenge

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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn”. Chinese proverb

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Source: National Training Laboratories Institute, Bethel, Maine, USA. From the information students get… Which is the best environment to build KNOWLEDGE?

Bloom’s taxonomy : 

Bloom’s taxonomy INSTRUCTIONS taken from an activity book in grade 3

What strategies and methods do we have to use for a competent learning? : 

What strategies and methods do we have to use for a competent learning? Or...how can my activities be more competent taking into consideration Language, Interaction, Content, Thinking, Involvement and Challenge?

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Project working Dialogue Questioning Interdisciplinary Problem solving Cooperative work Speaking Collective construction of knowledge

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Video Family

How to plan? : 

How to plan? LESSON PLAN (just a proposal).doc OBJECTIVES COMPETENCIES ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

How to assess? : 

How to assess? We must consider: To develop a problem solving situation in a real context, challenging but feasible, and using different tools according to what we are assessing

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.  John Lubbock (1834-1913)

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Title of my workshop Speaker’s Name Enric Calvet http://delicious.com/enriccalvet/competencies