Week 8

BRINGING THE REAL WORLD INTO THE CLASSROOM: 

 

We as teachers have reflected about the following question more than once “How do I integrate my real world and students’ world in my classroom?”

It is not a simple question taking into account that students have different types of needs that we as teachers have to manage; the first one is how to make my lessons functional to my students? Now, we as teachers have to manage different situations such as lack of materials, lack of students’ motivation lack of interest in learning English.

In the same way students do not feel motivated to learn because they do not have materials enough to practice and teachers do not have methodologies that engage them to learn.

Based on that, I would suggest the development of lessons by using the CLIL approach. When you as a teacher integrate contents and language, your lessons will be successful and your students will feel more engaged and motivated to participate in your lessons.

Also, it is important to recognize that CLIL lessons give students the chance to develop their creativity by designing materials where they can explore and apply more than their knowledge in English; for example, designing materials for science or Math lesson: they will think about how to connect English vocabulary and grammar with the topics they are working in those subjects;

Finally, when students are assigned tasks, they feel in a challenge so, it is amazing for them to develop a lesson as a challenge in order to explore and create new materials and integrate them with English lessons and contents.