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Subido el 4 de octubre de 2016 por Ignacio A.

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How can collaboration between teachers and language assistants be improved? 00:00:01
I think the most important thing is to keep the lines of communication open with the teachers. 00:00:06
And by this way, I feel that the expectations are well known, the goals. 00:00:18
And I think also by organizing maybe like weekly or biweekly meetings, 00:00:26
Different things can be talked about in a sense with how classes are progressing. 00:00:31
L.A.'s language assistants can be given feedback depending on how they're doing in class. 00:00:37
And I mean different things with lesson planning, defining goals, objectives. 00:00:45
and I think that by doing these things, like I said, the expectations are clearer with the roles in the classroom 00:00:51
and both the professors and language assistants can work together to improve and be more efficient in the classroom. 00:01:02
Well, the collaboration between teachers and students is fundamental because if you, 00:01:11
I mean, obviously you need to have a really good relationship with the teachers that you're working with, 00:01:17
and so I think that first and foremost, communication and collaboration. 00:01:21
And so I think a way that it could be improved would be through meetings, maybe twice a month, once a month, 00:01:26
I think just to get on a solid ground and maybe get on the same page with your teachers. 00:01:33
I think that's the best way that it could improve. 00:01:39
this is I think one of the most important topics to think about as as an 00:01:41
incoming language assistant it's difficult and I think it's different for 00:01:48
each teacher because I think at each school it's a very different situation 00:01:53
but so speaking from my experience I think that the main the biggest thing 00:01:57
that caused any sort of miscommunication or any sort of disagreement between a 00:02:04
teacher and I was a mismatch of expectations and I think that it's 00:02:10
really important from the beginning from the very very beginning of the year to 00:02:15
sit down with each of your teachers have a conversation about what exactly he or 00:02:20
she expects from you and what you expect to be doing in the classroom what you're 00:02:26
comfortable with doing what you're not comfortable with doing and if there are 00:02:31
more involved classes or maybe some teachers that you have more classes with 00:02:35
it's I think a good idea to set up some meeting times during the week just to 00:02:39
catch up and make sure that you're on the same page about everything that 00:02:45
you're teaching because I think that yeah once in a while a teacher will ask 00:02:50
me to do something in class on the spot in front of students that I wasn't 00:02:56
expecting and I think if we had had a conversation about that beforehand that 00:03:00
situation would not have come up in class so I think the communication from 00:03:05
the very beginning and being very clear about expectations is the most important thing. 00:03:09
How can you help other language assistants to enhance their performance while at school? 00:03:18
I think what I touched upon earlier about sharing information about students, because 00:03:31
at the end of the day, these are teenagers, and they're very similar to the teenagers 00:03:35
in the U.S. They don't like going to school. They don't like tests. They just want to have 00:03:40
of fun. So if students get a test back and they're in a really awful mood, what we would 00:03:45
do at my institute, we would share that information and say, fourth A is in a really awful mood. 00:03:51
You may need to get a little bit more excited to help them pull them out of that funk. On 00:03:57
the contrary, if students are riled up, they're really, really excited, you may have to tell 00:04:04
other students like, okay, you need to change your presentation a little bit. You need to 00:04:10
change your mood so that maybe you can bring them down and calm them down so you don't 00:04:15
go into the room and rile them up even more. 00:04:19
And I think that was the biggest way that we would, I would help other assistants and 00:04:24
other assistants would help me help the students learn. 00:04:28
So one of the biggest things that I would say about being a language assistant is that 00:04:32
it's a program where you'll have a really nice opportunity to improve your soft skills. 00:04:37
So if you're coming directly from college, you've studied a degree, you have a major, 00:04:44
a double major, maybe you've done research or an internship, or maybe you're a professional 00:04:48
who's been working for a couple of years specializing in how to do something and how to do that 00:04:54
well. 00:04:59
Being a language assistant teaches you soft skills, flexibility, collaboration, time management, 00:05:00
education, things that you may not be learning immediately in your college curriculum or 00:05:08
whatever it is, but are required to do an effective job in your high schools because 00:05:15
you never know what you're going to be asked to do on a day-to-day basis. 00:05:21
And establishing the ability to be a responsible and consistent professional and really be 00:05:25
able to collaborate with whatever is thrown your way is kind of the best thing that I 00:05:34
can recommend to improving your performance. 00:05:39
The information about learning the material given in class, that can come later and can 00:05:41
come kind of on the fly and you'll just take it as you're given it. 00:05:47
But to work on the soft skills I think is one thing that will really serve you well. 00:05:53
I think it's a really awesome opportunity to be able to have other language assistants 00:06:01
at the school that you're teaching in. 00:06:05
One of the reasons for that is because of the collaboration that can occur between you 00:06:10
and the other teachers. 00:06:14
For example, in my school, there are three other language assistants, and two of them 00:06:17
have been there at the school for one year before me. 00:06:23
So just from day one, from talking to them, they gave me so much information that was 00:06:27
helpful for me in dealing with the system in place in the school because it's so different 00:06:34
from the U.S. 00:06:40
So it was very helpful for me to be able to collaborate with them and learn from them 00:06:42
from the very beginning. 00:06:46
And then I think throughout the entire school year, we got pretty close, our group of language 00:06:48
assistance and we hung out during Recreo every day and we would talk about our students, 00:06:54
talk about difficulties we were having in class and basically we were able to slowly 00:07:01
learn that we were able to share materials, share worksheets, websites, presentations, 00:07:08
all of those things and it was very helpful for all of us to learn from each other what 00:07:14
What techniques we were using in class to help get the kids to stay quiet, to pay attention, 00:07:19
all of those things were extremely helpful to talk to the other language assistants in 00:07:26
my school about that. 00:07:31
And I think it's a really cool opportunity to have those people there to be able to collaborate 00:07:33
with and commiserate with when things aren't going well necessarily and be able to lift 00:07:38
each other up when you need it. 00:07:44
What are the most relevant resources you have found in your school? 00:07:52
What resources did you miss? 00:07:57
In my school, it's been the people who have been the most valuable resource to me throughout 00:08:06
the year. 00:08:12
This goes from the secretario of the school, who I don't give any classes with, but who 00:08:13
has been there for 20 years and just a valuable resource to answer questions about how things 00:08:19
work and the education system in La Comunidad de Madrid, and then the teachers that I work 00:08:24
with on a day-to-day basis have been really valuable resources. 00:08:31
In terms of technical information, giving the global classrooms curriculum, I've relied 00:08:36
a lot on the information we were given in our Fulbright orientation, and then the printed 00:08:42
publications of kind of the handbook for how to go about teaching that program in an effective 00:08:49
way. Things that I may have missed is a kind of a better access to technology that goes kind of 00:08:53
school by school. That was something that limited me this year. Other things that you may miss as a 00:09:01
teacher are certain supplies that may not just be right on hand. I'm thinking here about arts and 00:09:09
craft supplies. If you want to do something a little bit more creative, you might want to speak 00:09:16
with someone about that a couple weeks in advance to make sure you have what you need 00:09:20
to do your activity or your project well. 00:09:25
How would you describe your relationship with students, teachers, coordinators, families, 00:09:33
the school board, and other language assistants? 00:09:39
This job is a really collaborative job. 00:09:47
So every day I'm working with my teachers to plan the lessons, to reflect on the lessons, 00:09:50
to talk about which students are doing well and what has to be improved. 00:09:56
So you have to become really close with your teachers because they're your colleagues. 00:10:00
So my teachers are my co-workers and my friends. 00:10:04
It's nice because you can talk about lessons over coffee during your breaks. 00:10:07
So it's a very relaxed, very friendly environment. 00:10:11
The other teaching assistants at your school as well are a really important part of the 00:10:14
community and you become really close with them and it's one of the best parts of the 00:10:17
experience getting to talk to those teachers as well. 00:10:22
The students are fantastic. 00:10:25
They're really eager to learn and they're fun. 00:10:26
Subido por:
Ignacio A.
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