2.Topic: Primary Curriculum Box
From: Bentley, K. Primary Curriculum Box, 2009
Date: 2014, 30 June.
Have you ever heard the curriculum ?
The curriculum is very important to teach student because it is plan in each day for teacher's teaching. I have read the one book about the primary curriculum box it is interested for me. Primary Curriculum Box is a resource book of materials and activities for pupils aged between six/seven and eleven/twelve. The book is divided into five curriculum subjects. There subjects are Science, The Environment, Math, Arts (art and drama) and Literacy. This book includes more than 50 activities to help teachers develop pupils’ knowledge of content and language. All activities have teachers’ note with ideas for follow –up activities for future practice. I am interested this book and the many way in this.
This book described the CLTL and it is Content and Language Integrated Learning, is teaching contexts in which subject content is taught through another language. The curriculum materials are progress in difficulty, both in terms of content, concepts and language level. The activities in Primary Curriculum Box are suitable for use with pupils who are learning other curriculum subjects in English. The activities have been designed to develop knowledge of subject vocabulary and language forms.
Who is Primary Curriculum Box for?
There are teacher and learner. For teacher is suitable for primary teachers of English or teacher who teach curriculum subjects through English on content-based program. So, teacher needs to help learners move from lower thinking skills to higher thinking skills. And, learners are suitable for three age groups, for pupils aged between six and twelve.
Primary Curriculum Box is the one way to improve teachers’ teacher. It is important to use the target language to encourage and support the wok of individual pupils. These are suitable for use with pupils. The activities can supplement course books or provide stand-alone curriculum lesson. It can improve the vocabulary, knowledge, language or skills to learners.
1.Topic: Process writing and the internet: Blog and Ning Network in the Classroom.
From: 2011, Number 2 English Teaching Forum
Date: 2014, June 26
The internet can be used in a variety of ways to support process writing. The internet is one of material for develop the other skills of student. It is important for teacher to teach students through internet and tell them the advantage and disadvantage from internet. It is necessary for learning and using for process students’ skill such as writing skill by making a paragraph into Blog or Ning. Blog and Ning are a good way to develop writing skill and there are many steps to make the correct paragraph. Blog and Ning Networks are two widely used online platforms that can be easily make process.(Ferris and Hedgcock, 2005)
The meaning of Blog and Ning is different but there are the advantage to develop writing skill too. First, a blog is a web page with regular diary or journal and it is not posting by authors and responses to these posts by an audience. Blog is easy to set up and post that simple to comment on. Two websites that support the free creation of blog is www.blogger.com. Second, Ning is an alternative to a blog is a group social networking site (www.ning.com). Ning provides more tools than a blog; it is a place where smaller group of users can create their own profiles, upload videos and photos, and write their own blog. Next, writing task 1: blogging an argumentative essay consist of topic selection, pre-writing activities, drafting an introductory paragraph, peer review of the introductory paragraph, drafting and revising the argumentative essay, and sharing written production. Afterward, writing task 2 : using Ning to compose an expository paragraph consist of topic selection, pre-writing activity, drafting the expository paragraph, collaborative review by whole class, drafting and revising an expository paragraph and publishing the expository paragraph.(Ferris and Hedgcock, 2005)
The activities described how to use social networking tools to conduct the pre-writing drafting, peer review, and revising steps of the writing process. In addition, the developing is important for writing and other skills in English is important to learning too. The student can upload the interesting images, sound and videos including their works. When writing about topics that are relevant to their needs and interests, students are apt to respond enthusiastically.
