Rosa H:(PWP) Second Draft: Useful Didactic sequences in English classes: a useful tool

Personal Writing Project
Useful Didactic sequences in English classes: a useful tool
(Possible topic) 

Most of the times English teachers in training find difficult establish a correct methodological prose to learn or to teach, for example; the scholar institutions could give teachers the curriculum or the planning, but is the work for the teacher to create or make the planning of each class, sometimes it isn't clear the target of what is needed to be teach, or to be learn for the students. In those cases if the teacher in training doesn't know how to deal with, could be demanding to handle the class.

I had had an experience looking a Spanish teacher in her class, and I really like the methodology that she was doing in the class, the students were so eager and really attend it, so I was wonder how can she get that, because the students were taken other six classes before of Spanish, and in those others classes were like a hell for the teachers, I was in shock, then I asked her about what she did to achieve that environment, so She say: "Are you familiarized with Didactic Sequences?" If you don't please read about that and then let me know, we can share what you have look, and I will clean your doubts", so I take it as a really personal task, after I finished reading something about Didactic sequences I try to put into practice with my own students, then I discover that in some subjects works better than in others, but ¿Why?

What I am expecting to search is more information about Didactic Sequences as a tool to the English teacher to use in the daily classes, and not only as teacher resources also as learning strategies.  I as a professional foreign languages English teacher in training, I will try to explain students and teacher in my field the importance of Didactic Sequences means to me. I consider is a valid to our field make discussions every day about teaching strategies and pedagogical process, is in all parts of our life, because we are training to be foreign languages teacher. It’s remarkable trying to become better day by day, and to look for guidelines that are currently handled in teaching, that’s why I recommend being not just a good English level as teachers also to prepare to be great pedagogical teachers.

What is Didactic Sequences?

“Vygotsky believed that, both physical manipulation and social interaction are necessary to the student development. Without the presence of the teacher, the learning will not be the same. In the social interaction, the kid learns which characteristics are the most important, which must distinguish and which have to act. In a share activity, the teacher influence directly in the learning process”.[1]

It means that the teaching-learning process involves the student and the teacher in a social interaction, but in a social interaction that should have some motivating factors that catch the interest of the student into his own learning process, also needs the teacher organization. For this last part is a gold key that teachers have very clear the goal their students have to achieve; but not only that, it is topmost to write and well prepare the classes taking into account an structure. At that point is when the Didactic Sequences appears to give the teacher an alternative organizational process.  

“Didactic activity” is a designed activity which helps the planning of a class. The activities and the sequences will have positive educative effects during the teaching-learning process, it let the activities being planned and designed to reach the goal.

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[1]  SNTE (2011). “Principios de la psicología y la educación”, Fortalecimiento para Docentes 2011. Tema 3. Dominio de los Enfoques de los Planes y Programas y Programas de Estudio de Educación Básica. Pp.23-26.