Reading: Aula

On Monday 14th in the tutorial session we talked about a reading called Aula, from the author Joan Todó.

In this story we see the daily life of an English teacher and all the problems she has to deal with at school. For example, kids are not very motivated to learn English and neither the teacher to teach a new language. At school there are a lot of students who need special education and the teacher doesn't attend these needs.

The teacher is not neither coordinate with other teachers and now the director proposes CLIL classes, thing that will suppose to much work for the teacher. We also see some activities in the English class: she prepares some pictures of The Simpson, but after painting the characters, children don't do any activity related to English. Parents of pupils are another problem to deal with: they don't try to understand teachers and they think their kids behave well all the time in class.

After talking about the problems the teacher had, all the members of the tutorial group proposed some solutions to improve the quality of the teacher English sessions and also to motivate both students and teacher. For example we thought about work group because then kids with different level of English will be able to help each other. Coordination with other teachers is also very important, not just to prepare meaningful activities but also to plan CLIL sessions. In the class there is an English student so we said that the teacher could propose the girl to help her classmates, to talk about her country, etc.