Is Spanish language sexist?

DEFINITION OF MACHINING Machismo is an expression derived from the masculine word, defined as that attitude or way of thinking of who maintains that the male is by nature superior to the woman. Machismo is an ideology that encompasses the set of attitudes, behaviors, social practices and beliefs aimed at promoting the denial of women as subjects regardless of culture, tradition, folklore or context....

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WEEK 10

Hello!!! I am Marina De Vicente and this week I am the facilitator of the task. Well doneeeee Alicia and well doneee Chalkies! This week the task has been very interested and I like how the star,  who is Alicia, do it, each week we improve contoling our nerves and this is good for preparing our exam. The task of this week as the other was very interesting because as future teacher and as future...

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STAR II LAST WEEK

Hi! It is Marina García! This is my third week as a star, and unfourtunately the last one, since, as you've read, the course #SOyER1516 is about to finish and there won't be more tasks. It's a pity... Despite of having too much work, we've really enjoyed during this course working in groups, fostering our creativity and adquering a lot of new knoledge... Stop sensitiveness, let's me talk to you about...

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LAST TASK

Hello bloggers! Here you have the link to see the news of our week. Hope you like it! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35RB4qGnFWKY2M5aDlEMzNXR2c/view?usp=shar...

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TRANSLATOR, LAST WEEK

Hi guys! I am Isabel Ramírez de Arellano Sevilla and I am the translator of this week. Here you have the last five concepts from our last weekly task: We have focused in the organizations that appear in school and that coordinate all the teaching-learning process: The first one we have is ''Equipo docente de ciclos'' in English it can be said  ''teachers' team''. It is an organization within...

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FACILITATOR: LAST WEEK

Hi again bloggers! It's Elena Gonzalez and in this last task I have been the facilitator of the Chalkies. Is there anything better than finishing this subject being the boss of the group? I think no. Why? Well, first of all I am a bit stubborn and I prefear to be the leader than being leaded. Moreover, as this was our last task I wanted everything to be perfect. We are characterized for finishing...

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Last week, last stars!

Hi guys! The last star is here! I am Alicia Gomis and I have a lot of things to tell you. First of all I want to say that I consider that this has been one of our best tasks due to or easy coordination and our final work, it was excelent! Secondly, on Monday I was really afraid to be the last star, but fortunately two star would be in charge of the task this time, and I have to say that working...

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CURATOR LAST WEEK !!

Hii!! I am Marina De Vicente and I am the curator of this week. In this moment I am very happy but at the same time I am worried, because this week is the last, so in few days we will be doing the exam. For this task we have used: Estructuras para el trabajo y la cordinación de los profesores en los cento. M· Teresa González González https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2015_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Schools%20that%20learn/Estructura%20de%20centros_M%C2%AA%20Teresa%20Gonz%C3%A1lez.pdf Los...

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LAST TASK: ANALYST

Hello bloggers, I am Alicia de Prado. I can’t believe this has been our last task. I can’t either believe how much we have improved since the first once. It is a coincidence that I have been the analyst of the first task, and also being it in this last one. That first one, “TPACK”, I reflected about how we were like a basketball time. The mistakes we did, the insecurities, the fear. We have...

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 10

Hi bloggers! it's Marina García, this time as a translator of the task. This week we've been working on speeches and leadership styles! Have a look at the new terms that we've learnt.At the end you'll also find some tips to perform a great speech. Here you have the five main styles you can find,...

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ANALYST WEEK 10

Hi bloggers, I'm Elena González and this week I've been the Chalkies' analyst. In this tenth week we have come bak to reallity since we have worked as we used to do. Linda explained the task and each group had to do an exposition in front of the class. This week we (specially our star) had to creat a kind of candidature for being the director of a school. For doing something like that we had to...

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CURATOR (WEEK 10)

Hi guys! I am Isabel Ramírez de Arellano Sevilla and I am the curator of this week. In this link you will be able to see our mind map of tools and references not only from this task but also from the others: https://bubbl.us/?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88ZY1s&r=1144261193 Here below, you are going to find the references we have used to do this leadership task: Gyasi,...

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Journalist week 10

Hi bloggers! I am Alicia Gomis, the Chalkies’ journalist and I’m going to tell you all about this week in SOYER. We started on Monday watching the video of the TVshows in which all of us  participated trying to perform different fiction cases about the connections in school. We did The Leona’s...

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STAR WEEK 10

Hello guys, it's Alicia de Prado!! How is it going? The end is coming!! Well, I have been honored this week with the important mission of being the face of The Chalkies as if it was a political campaign. I had to be a headmistress and I had to give a speech about how was my school ruled and which my methods were. When I first realized I was going to be the star (once again), i felt nervous (once...

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ANALYST WEEK 9

Hii! I am Marina De Vicente and this week I am Analyst. The task of this week was very similar to the task of  last week, the only difference is that we have changed the roles, those who were writers are now actors and backwards. As you know, last week we worked all the class together, I should say that work together is difficult because you have to put in common many ideas or personal...

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 9

Hello! I'm Alicia Gomis the translator of week 9. As you know the role of the translator is to try to summarize what we have learned during the week in 5 terms. But these weeks are going to be different, we are working on complexity at the time that we spend a good time filming scenes of a news program.Therefore the vocabulary learned during this week has been different: Theater director: The theater...

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CURATOR WEEK 9

Hey! I'm Marina García and this time, as curator, I have collected everything that we have used to complete our task. In this activity, we haven't use so many resources, just three, since the stories have been created by us, and not obtained from the Internet.The tools used in this task are: 1.An article were complexity in relationships is explained: Connections & Relationships Starkey,...

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FIVE STORIES RELATED TO FIVE TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS AT SCHOOLS.

TEACHER-STUDENT CONNECTION According to this part of the chapter called ‘’Teacher-Student connection’’, both of them learn from each other, being in this case the teacher the greatest influence on student achievement; what they do and how they do it, matters. Imagine this situation: The teacher is always telling their students that they are ‘’stupid guys’’, ‘’burros’’ ‘’they don’t know how to do...

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COMPLEXITY NEWS

Here you can see the great job that we have done together, the whole class! Hope you like it because it is worth seeing it...

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FACILITATOR WEEK 9

Hi everyone! This week I have been the facilitator not only of my group but also of the others with the rest of facilitators. It has been a difficult week due to the fact that we had to do a big big task. We had to create a twenty minutes video together, all the class. However, with the help of the other facilitators and the rest of the class we have done a great work. We knew how to coordinate the...

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STAR WEEK 9

Hi bloggers! This week the star of the Chalkies has been me, Elena González. Unlike other weeks, I didn't mind being the star since I didn't have to present any task or explain anything in front of the whole class, as we usually do. This week I was part of a group leaded by my partner Isabel Ramirez de Arellano and my job was to look for a place to record a strory for the Diary of Leona, for that,...

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 9

Hello! I am Soledad Soriano and I am the translator of “The Chalkies” in this task. This week we have recorded different reality shows or situations about fiction cases related to different topics. I am going to define these topics which are the different relationships or connections we can find...

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JOURNALIST WEEK 9

Hello everyone! It's Alicia de Prado here, my role as journalist caught me again! How interesting and funny are being these two weeks, don't you think? This week we have been working with the news stuff, as last week. This time, I didn't have to play such an attractive and sexy role as the country man I played las week. This time, I was behind the scenes with a camara in my hands. The rest of the...

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FACILITATOR WEEK 8

Hello bloggers! It's Marina García. This week I've been working as facilitator again, but this time was a bit different. Pay attention; this time I've been a kind of chief from a newspaper, and  I had also to direct a news programme section. Maybe you're a bit confused... but I'm sure that the journalist chalkie has explained it perfectly!In this eighth activity, I belong to the chief's group,...

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The Chalkies' newspaper

 EXTRA, EXTRA!  COMPLEXITY OF  SCHOOL IS HERE!  Today, we have different kind of news about complexity of school. They have been collected by our amazing researching group, "The Chalkies". School is a place which suffer from changes constantly, and where new challanges are happening everyday. All of those changes are bounded to different reasons, as you will see in the...

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CURATOR WEEK 8

Hello! I am Soledad Soriano and I am curator this week. We have not a lot of references because we have recorded a video about the news of complexity in school that we looked for last week.I put here the references about an article about  the topics related to school complexity. Moreover, I put a new that has been included in the  news programme of the class.Finally, the tool that we have...

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