Bilingual Teacher Education

At the bottom, same text, but revised by AI. Which do you prefer? There is no way to escape it. AI is here and it is changing the way we do things. It's changing how our brain words and it will make a huge impact in our lives. It is your choice to decide if the change is going to be beneficial or harmful. I chose it to be beneficial and I will tell you how. It's with no doubt, that AI is helping teachers all over the world, helping them save time when planning their lessons, when they need to differentiate a text to suit the level of their learners, designing worksheet and even analyzing data and writing reports. As a teacher, I use AI everyday to do simple tasks to me, as revising an email response and sometimes drafting it. I give Copilot the standards, skills, content and unit overview, and I ask it to outline a 20 lesson unit following a specific approach that we follow in our school. I then revise this outline and ask it to expand each lesson into the 3 steps structure we ...

When planning, one thing we must think about is where we want to be at the end. Once we know our destination, we can plan how to get there. To plan the journey, we need to understand where we are starting from. You might think I’m talking about planning lessons and teaching our students, right? Actually, no. I’m thinking about you, teachers. If you're not happy with your current job, it's time to make a change. You need to plan for this change. No one should just jump into new adventures without planning. That would be careless. So, let's go back to the beginning and think again. If you find it hard to go to work, if you don’t want to get out of bed to face your boss or that difficult colleague, or if you're tired of using the same workbook again, you should look at what’s wrong. Why is this happening? The first step is to think about where you would like to be. What is the perfect scenario that would make you get out of bed happily and go to work? Write it down, say it...

Today, the post is dedicated to a series of activities I did with my 1st graders with cumulative songs. Initially, we played a series of games and sang cumulative songs, such as: My Hand on My Head, Tooty Taa, Green Grass Grows All Around, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Today is Monday... After understanding how this structure works, with a verse that is repeated and then adding other parts, the students had to choose a theme and make an original composition. They could work in small groups, pairs or individually. During classes, students received feedback to ensure that the basic structure was being followed. They could do it in Portuguese or English, or bilingual if they could make sense of them, and they could use the resources available to help with vocabulary and ideas. Once ready, the students had to perform the composition, which was recorded, and made the necessary adjustments. With the recordings finished, we shared the results between the classes. What impressed me the most in...

 Olá queridos e queridas... Volto das cinzas com uma divulgação importante para mim. Um novo passo na minha carreira, voltando um pouco ao que fiz durante a pandemia. Estou oferecendo novamente o curso Songs For You, mas agora em formato totalmente online.  Se achar que este é seu momento, vem comigo:  sun.eduzz.com/2005518 Se você quer conhecer melhor ou tiver dúvidas, entre em contato: bilingualmusiceducation@gmail.com Você pode também ter uma ideia do que vem no curso ao assistir o webinar  Songs Repertoire Vem comigo!