The influences that teachers have in student’s thoughts

Human learning is inductive – deductive that depends on each person (from his memory, motivation, concentration, attitude and behavior), it does change your mindset and achieve a higher level of diversity, complexity and integration. Part of the mindset that the person brings (preconceptions) and recognizes the level of logical thinking that has to encourage experiences that promote their skills of observation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and review. All this is based on the conceptual structure of each person, some of the ideas and preconceptions that he brings about a subject of analysis, provides conceptual change is expected from the active construction of new concept and its impact on the mental structure; confronting preconceptions and ideas related to the subject, with the new learning concept, as applied to specific situations (and relates to other concepts in cognitive structure) in order to expand their transfer. All social groups establish their rules, their values, their practices and specific knowledge, define its mission and goals, within these goals are also the goals of training each group seeks to achieve social and individual identity and make it part of their reality. Human learning is a process whereby construction involves four fundamental aspects like: 1. The Self is the apprentice, who makes a significant learning of cognition structured learning activities. 2. Knowledge is the key information and content or access the sources of which are real objects, experience, educational materials, libraries and tradition. 3. The role of parents, teachers, guidance tutor or teacher who sets the audiovisual language teaching tools aid in sustained switched. 4. The teaching methodology for adults to develop their learning projects. To give a clear idea of ​​how humans think, we should be clear what their learning process are, how it behaves, motivation and how the process is done when the interaction between the student (apprentice, son), the teacher (parents) and content to get a good learning process and the transformation in the thinking of man. Human learning is done in non-hierarchical and interrelated levels that lead to the formation of formal thought as quoted below: 1. Sensory: Is the object world begins to operate in the form of concrete thinking. 2. Perceptual: The subjective world is sensory interpretation. 3. Neuropsychological or cognitive: Is cerebral interpretation. 4. Configurationally: The psyche, mental linking new knowledge or behavior. This way we can get a proper evolution permanently linking these levels to each other. Similarly, I cannot ignore Piaget's theory of constructivism, interactions and critical realism, giving concrete and formal thinking in humans. This theory allows visualizing the evolution of concrete thinking to formal thinking in a simple way, for this we will take each element (constructivism, interactions and critical realism) and we will see what role in this evolution. Constructivism is opposed to empiricism and PTO building knowledge from the interaction between subject and object. Interactions, generates a dialectical movement between subject and object generating knowledge construction. Critical realism is where we perform a consensus between what we know of the object in reality as such and relate within our schemes. Thus we can say that humans develop their thinking in a associative way, starting with inductive learning (making specific data entry and delivery models or general rules) and reaching a deductive learning (making models or general rules and delivery specific rules). The success of all this development is linked to motivation that humans have to perform a learning process. Motivation is the inner strength that leads man to discover and learn new things, which compels him to meet the different needs that arise every day and guide you to explore on your areas of interest. I could say that motivation is the engine of human beings, if the engine is in perfect condition and has a goal to reach, push the entire machine to it, but if the engine is no strength, no goals, the machine will be, static, just watching life pass. If we combine motivation with the learning process of human beings in an objective way we can get a proper result and optimum process lived as in the classroom. If the teacher spends time studying, knowing and understanding the process of learning of each student, he or she may have a greater chance of succeeding in the methodologies used, and if we also add motivation, we may have a group of people not only present in a classroom to hear but motivated to explore science fields of interest and with an open mind willing to acquire the knowledge and experiences that the teacher will provide. A student looks at his or her teacher as a model of life, professionally and in labor. If the teacher shows his students an integral being, ethical, intelligent, with a life plan clear and structured, motivated to succeed every day, and enjoys teaching, the student may take him as a role model. It is important therefore that teachers never forget that their own life is a model for their students.

Source: http://www.eumed.net/rev/cccss/08/rdce2.htm

Here we have some resources to create polls and ideas to use them in language learning activities.

SURVEYMONKEY www.surveymonkey.com
SurveyMonkey has many different applications that would be practical for aclassroom and educational purposes.

Educators have used it for:

1. Gaining background knowledge on what information students had learned inprevious classes.
2. Multiple choice quiz - Save time where it can be made available to studentsoutside class time.
3. Learning students interests/activities.
4. Student/teacher evaluations.
5. Practice exams/ mock exams.Chapter
6. Anonymous classroom reports.
7. Student in-class/outside-of-class projects.
8. Pre-test or pre-class survey.
9. Post-class surveys – Help the educators to re-evaluate their lesson plans andimprove those critical areas. 10. Assessment of background knowledge- Benefit the students; where educatorscan know the level of  his/her students and can create the lesson planningaccordingly.

OBSURVEY www.obsurvey.com
Obsurvey is a very powerful tool for hosting online surveys. You can share the URLto the survey you create with Obsurvey, and embed it on your webpage/wiki andyou also can download a pdf file of the results.

POLLDADDY Educators can use Polldaddy features for quizzes, gather feedback on course work.Tutors can get reviews on events from student and colleagues. It saves time for theeducators instead of using the paper-based quizzes. Among the features useful foreducations is, where users can add html, images, video and other media. Responsesgathered can be filtered accordingly. Users can also easily collect responses on iPad,iPhone, and iPod www.polldaddy.com

POLL EVERYWHERE Poll everywhere is a text message polling and audience response system. It is simple enough for anyone to use and flexible enough for a wide range of scenarios tointeract with audiences and collect data. www.polleverywhere.com

IDEAS FOR USING POLL EVERYWHERE IN THE CLASSROOM A few activities to use Poll Everywhere in the classroom: - Quizzes - Attendance - Teacher feedback - Group evaluations - Class discussions

THE WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)

http://prezi.com/zaltn03ajras/the-world-wide-web/

Glogster about the different resources we've come across during the course including links to tutorials and teaching projects. http://janaregina.edu.glogster.com/edit/teaching-resources-6460/

Presentation about 'presentation skills.' using present.me This presentation includes tips, DOs and DON'Ts

http://present.me/view/29513-tips-for-your-presentation-skills

Using Facebook for language learning purposes- Prezi

Here we have created a prezi showing and explaining some activities to teach English using Facebook.

http://prezi.com/03erbc2urap1/using-facebook-for-language-learning-purposes/

Lyrics Training- Excellent Interactive Lyrics Site An interative lyrics site that allows your students to learn songs by completing the words.
What is so great about it is all the interaction that takes place and the variety of songs it caters for.
Students love it.
 http://www.lyricstraining.com/

Dvolver-Fun dialogue building tool Simple animation tool that allows you to create some fun dialogues and then share them with teachers and students.
Great introduction tool to technology as it is so easy to use.
Students can create a dialogue in a matter of minutes.
This particular site is great for adults and teenagers.

http://dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html

Introduction of "Pronunciation Tips" from bbclearningenglish.com

To enter to this page, first you have to clic on the page http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ and then clic on Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronuntiation, and finally clic on Pronunciation tips.

I Gotta Feeling song http://www.isabelperez.com/songs/gottafeeling.htm

This site has been developed and maintained by the Spanish Secondary English teacher Isabel Pérez Torres.
This is a very motivating material for the students to learn english trough songs.

http://www.esl-lab.com/ 

This is a very interesting website where you can find several information about teaching and learning Enlish, it has listening quizes for different levels.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

In this page you can find general and business english, including grammar, vocabulary and pronuntiation. It is a very useful tool for teachers also, to find some activities for the students.

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/

This is a very useful page for teachers where you can find English lessons for kids, ESL Lesson Plans, materials and many activities.

Paulo Freire, Education for critical consiousness 

Critical consciousness is the ability to perceive social, political, and economic oppression and to take action against the oppressive elements of society, developed in Paulo Freire`s book.