After reading the articles and taking into consideration my own experience as a teacher, I would like to mention the following aspects:

When we plan a lesson, as teachers, we should have a complete idea about what our teaching objectives are in each of the sessions we are planning, the materials we are going to use, the timing… and of course the learning objectives we want our students to achieve in order to learn and understand the contents we are dealing with in each session. But if I consider my personal experience, working as an infant and primary teacher, I would say that in my point of view we don’t have to tell our students at the beginning of each session the learning objectives we have planned.

In the years I worked with death children I realized that kids (especially death ones because they can’t listen to you) they need to know what is going to happen in the session. I mean, it’s necessary to anticipate our students the different activities we are going to go through, or the different contents we are going to deal with, just to make them a clear idea about what is going on in the session, to help them anticipate and feel calm. You know that kids always want to know in advance what is going to happen next. This would help our students to have a previous mental scheme in order to control anxiety.

In my period working with death kids I used to glue different pictures in my blackboard with the session routines and activities and I just took them out in order we had worked on them. I realized it was very useful for those students who couldn’t follow my instructions orally but also for those students who sometimes felt lose in one of the part of the session and obviously I think it was more visual and motivating for all my kids. What I want to explain, is that we can anticipate our students the different parts of the session but we don’t have to tell them what it’s supposed they are going to learn because in my personal point of view its more interesting if at the end of the session all together we make a reflection about the things they have been learning about. Probably, we as teachers have planned some learning objectives and when we finish the session we discover that kids have taken into consideration other aspects. Our class and our session should be a global environment where we can learn from each other. Teachers from students, students from teachers, students from students…. And sometimes it’s difficult to predict in advanced.

There is another aspect I want to considerer in order to deal with kids learning process, creativity and imagination. We as teacher should be guides and if at the beginning of the session you make your students copy the objectives in their notebooks you are not allow them to reflect about their learning process at the end of the session because you are giving them the answer before they have the opportunity to complete the task.

To conclude I want to point a teaching quote that I really love that summarize my personal point of view.

THANK YOU!!

CELIA MORENO RODRIGUEZ