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23 April is World Book and Copyright Day.  You are invited to celebrate the day filling this digital bookshelf with your contributions. On the wall, please pin your favourite book and why you like it ; the book of your lifetime, make reading confessions, publish your reader's self-portrait and so forth.  Please describe your pins.  You could pin any book or title, a favourite from childhood, a current book or something you’ve read and enjoyed.  Instructions to join ' A Wall of Books ' at Pinterest : - Sign up at https://www.pinterest.es/ and log in. - Accept the invitation to join the board and collaborate: https://pin.it/oggloahcasaky3 - You are ready to pin! Thanks for contributing to create an international wall of books! Happy World Book and Copyright Day! Enjoy and Read!!!

23 April is World Book and CopyRight Day but at our A1 ESL classroom in Luarca , Asturias, Spain, we have already started the celebrations! April is our Book Month and, to celebrate its beginning, we have gathered and described our favourite characters from Wonder , after having been reading the book for several months now. Here you are the collection of descriptions and reasons why we must all #choosekind :

 El 25 de marzo de 2019 ponemos un punto y seguido en la experimentación didáctica en materia de Educación en Gobierno Abierto en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Luarca , Asturias, centro piloto de la iniciativa conjunta "Experimenta EduGobAbierto" de los Ministerios de Función Pública y Política Territorial y de Educación y Formación Profesional del Gobierno de España. Y lo hacemos participando en este evento final, que se emite en directo a través de un conocido servicio de streaming , y en el que presentamos una cronología visual de la experimentación del año académico 2018/2019. Cronología en Imágenes de Experimentación en Educación en Gobierno Abierto – 2018/2019 from Mª Jesús García San Martín Lo más importante de la participación en este evento en directo es el protagonismo de mi alumnado, que son los que resumen, en una frase, lo que ha significado para ellos participar en la experiencia, dando respuesta a la pregunta: " ¿Qué es para ti ...

 On March 6-7 2019, we are celebrating  Empathy   at the School Library, EOI Luarca, after having been reading  Wonder . The celebration of Empathy is divided into several steps, which we are overcoming all together, in coordinated teams, so as to foster coexistence ! First , we are having a big group discussion about August's feelings and thoughts. Secondly , we are feeling what August is feeling when having his helmet on! Thirdly , we are designing costumes, storyboarding a scene and performing it in front of our peers. Finally, we are filling in our WONDER Wall with #choosekind postcards for August! Here you are the support slideshow for the session at the library: Besides, you need these materials, which you may also pick up on the Empathy Days , from the library, if you'd rather do so: - Storyboard template - Printable postcard for August Come and join us in March. Let's celebrate Empathy together! ...

La Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Luarca participa en el  I Concurso de Fotografía Gobierno Abierto - Delegación del Gobierno en Asturias , como parte de las actividades de la Semana de la Administración Abierta , y en base a la experimentación en centros en materia de Educación en Gobierno Abierto de la que formamos parte desde noviembre de 2018 hasta marzo de 2019. Te animamos a que saques tu móvil del bolsillo y participes haciendo una o dos fotografías a edificios, infraestructuras o instalaciones que alberguen Servicios de la Administración del Estado en la Comunidad Autónoma del Principado de Asturias. El plazo para participar en el concurso se abre el 15 de febrero y se cierra el 6 de marzo de 2019. Los ganadores recibirán un Diploma de Delegación del Gobierno y un obsequio simbólico. Los premios serán entregados la semana del 11 al 15 de marzo de 2019, bien en Delegación del Gobierno en Oviedo, bien en los propios Centros de los ganadores. ¡Consulta las...

This learning mission is part of the Spanish nationwide initiative on Education on Open Government run by the Spanish Ministries of Education and Public Administrations, for which I have been appointed to take part with my students, in an experimental didactic classroom programme. The learning mission is divided in various steps: Step 1 . Students are asked to read the following factsheets, listed above, on different education systems and to investigate: - UK education system - American education system - Spanish education system Step 2 . Then, they are requested to collect the most relevant facts, the differences, the simillarities, the advantages and the disadvantages. It is very much appreciated that they include their personal opinion about the three systems, and that they focus closely on the role that EEOOII play in them. Step 3 . Finally they are asked to design a report card , which is their support when delivering their speaking mission and explaining about the...

Pics of the day:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/2krP4BDSr2i8J1UQ6 Thanks for coming!

Our second term reading adventure, Wonder , is starting right now! Get ready to see people from another viewpoint! Here you are the official movie trailer:   Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder tells the inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman.   Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade.   As his family, his new classmates, and the larger community all struggle to find their compassion and acceptance, Auggie's extraordinary journey will unite them all and prove you can't blend in when you were born to stand out. The bestseller is already waiting for you at the School Library, on the ground floor. Do not miss another minute and get it!

All along the first term of this 2018/2019 school year, my ESL students have been reading different books. My A1 ESL bunch chose their own basic abridged books back in October, read them thoroughly and recommended their readings to each other in an amazing book club discussion . Besides, they have been inspired by their first term reading in order to go into the kitchen and cook some tasty Christmas food, which then they have brought to school and signed up for the traditional Christmas recipe contest that the school has been holding for 25 years now. This way we are combining mediation, reading, speaking and writing language activites, with fun and enjoyable learning. Here you are their awesome outcomes, which we hope you find inspiring too!: On the other hand, my C1 ESL students have concentrated on reading a single book for the first term: ' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ', and so have contributed to the digital collaborative educational p...

Last Monday December 17 2018, we started celebrating Christmas at the school library , helping Santa out of his trouble with this Christmas gift delivery, through a brief and easy escape room, which gathered A1 - B1 ESL students around cracking codes for an hour. The students were teamed up out of the library, on the ground floor, by receiving a Christmas tree card each. There were blue, green, orange, yellow, purple and red Christmas tree cards, so as to make teams of multilevel students. You only need to print as many sets of cards as students you would like to team up, cut them according to colours, and give them out to them as they queue to get into the escape room. That way, when they start the escape room games they already belong to a team and can work together more smoothly.   Next, the school library door is locked and students are told about Santa's trouble and his need for their help, as well as how they can help Santa out, together with the game straigh...

On 13 December 2018, B2.1 and C1 ESL students gathered together at EOI Luarca, Room 32, first floor, for our first book discussion club meetup , after having been reading ' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ' novel for nearly three months. Reading is much more than opening a book and thumbing page after page. Reading means imagining the time and location where a novel is set, understanding the characters and their reactions as well as putting yourself in their shoes; analysing the authors' styles and backgrounds, reviewing, commenting and feeling the whole story, so as to later celebrate your learning with your class peers in a social event. For example, a school meetup.  This is obviously time consuming and involves prior work before joining such a book discussion club meetup, and the B2.1 and C1 ESL students who attended last Thursday's meetup were up to the challenge, and even thought of empowering everybody's brains ...

Last 12 December 2018 was one of those days when one knows for sure, if ever doubted, that being a teacher is the best job in the world! After three months learning English, this brilliant group of A1 ESL learners have absolutely left me lost for words, for their effort, their motivation, their active and skilled interactions and the competence to mediate and communicate with their peers, but above all, for their success at discussing books taking into account the little language activities they have accomplished in such short length. This learning mission started back in October, when they went down to the school library for the first time and picked a book of their choice: 'an easy book, please', I said then . However, they did not hesitate to poke into the library drawers until they found an eye-catching title. And so they began! Three months later, we have just held our first A1 ESL Book Discussion Club Meetup , where they have shared their achievements, they ...