Partner Professional Dialogue

Last week a colleague and gathered in order to have a professional dialogue. She agreed to meet me after her morning work; she has been teaching English since 2007, she works with indigenous students too, but the main difference is that she has these students in a city, they all have came to work and study to get a better lifestyle.

Since I have given the lessons plan before meeting her, the first thing she did was to show me the comments she have written about my lesson plan and this feedback helped me to notice something I missed during planning.

She pointed out that maybe due to the kind of activity, community involvement was not present in the lesson plan. But at certain time, it would be a good idea to arrange parents to visit the language classroom and provide an opportunity to share what they know (experiences), about their context, which will and motivate students to compare with their native language (i.e. tales, traditions). At the end students will be sharing about their context, which represents what they really are.

What she liked the most was the joint productive activity regarding preferences, how students work collaborative and engage to the task. But the only problem she found was that if ss design the chart, it will be time consuming, because, they have to cut, paste, etc, for sure Ss will work as a team, but it will be better to bring the chart prepared.

Here is when I told her that I have implemented with a group, and that was exactly what happened to the class. The teams did not achieve the goal because they ran out of time. So I agreed that it would be better to recycle what the first group did and ask other groups to use pencil to mark the answers so they can erase once they finish.

The content is contextualized, because the vocabulary included is easy to identify by students, sports they all practice. But she asked to stick to sports with balls, just to avoid confusion among students.

In conclusion she found the lesson plan well done and provides students opportunity to interact among them, work as group.