Monday, March 28, 2011

Designing a Quiz

Well My Instrument that I chose is Yes or No, the evaluation is made for evaluating the motivation, anxiety, self-esteem adn empathy:





1. You use to order your bedroom everyday.
-Yes
-No

2. If you have to talk in front of the class, do you make nervous?
-Yes
-No

3. When Someone tells you something very important , do you put yourself in someone else's shoes?


-Yes
-No


4.  Do you like to share your things with your friends?


-Yes 
- No


5. In your free-time you like jogging , playing football.


-Yes
- No


6. When you mother tells you off, do you get angry and go to your room ?


-Yes 
- No


7. Are you a cheerful person and you like telling jokes or talking to someone about something interesting for you?


-Yes 
-No


8. Do you read newpapers, magazines or comics? 


-Yes
- No


9. When you have to meet up with your friends and you're getting late, do you call them at least?


-Yes 
-No


10. When you get a excellent mark do you tell your parents about it?


-Yes
-No





Well , In general It was complex to make these questions, but I guess It could evaluate his/her 4 personality factors, I thought much because I didn't make it so complicated, after all, this quiz demostrate what  the students need to get better and become in some wise people. 



Methodology Class: Myers Briggs Test

Jung Typology Test

Your Type is 
ISFJ
Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 25 25 1

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

 You are:
distinctively expressed introvert
moderately expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality


mmm...I see..OH! :O! right! I have to write my opinion XD...let's see..I think these questions were a good experience for me, some were a litlle complex too. well anyway I have to comment about my test and my emotions:

Introvert, Obviously I've always been shy, but while I've been growning up! I realized if I don't try it  Nobody will try it for me, besides I have a long way to go before I become a teacher ( i.e a EXTROVERT person too).

Sensing Personality, I understand I often feel tired and I feel I'm not happy with some things, but when I'm happy I have a good empathy.

Feelings Personality, I always intent to show my feelings through laughing, because I am a jolly, serious, but definitely cheerful and funny person. XD Just look at my drawings!!!!

Judging Personality, I'm not very good judging to the people but If I want to be a teacher, I have to choose very critically as a excellent evaluator.

I looked for something important on another web:


About the ISFJ
Expert Quotes & Links

"ISFJs are characterized above all by their desire to serve others, their "need to be needed." In extreme cases, this need is so strong that standard give-and-take relationships are deeply unsatisfying to them; however, most ISFJs find more than enough with which to occupy themselves within the framework of a normal life."
- ISFJ Profile (TypeLogic)

"modest, not confrontational, easily hurt, observer, prone to crying, not spontaneous"
- Jung Type Descriptions (ISFJ) (similarminds.com)

"ISFJs have a rich inner world that is not usually obvious to observers. They constantly take in information about people and situations that is personally important to them, and store it away. This tremendous store of information is usually startlingly accurate, because the ISFJ has an exceptional memory about things that are important to their value systems. It would not be uncommon for the ISFJ to remember a particular facial expression or conversation in precise detail years after..."

- Portrait of an ISFJ (The Personality Page)
"The primary desire of the Protector SJ is to be of service to others, but here "service" means not so much furnishing others with the necessities of life, as guarding others against life's pitfalls and perils, that is, seeing to their safety and security."

- The Portrait of the Protector Guardian (iSfJ) (Keirsey)

"At work, ISFJs contribute loyal, sympathetic, consistent, and considerate service to others. They are know for their kindness and for their willingness to go to any length to help those in need. They take the practical needs of people into account when they do their work, and their strong follow-through skills allow them to carry out organizational goals. They do at least what is expected to them and oftentimes more, without attracting attention to themselves. They are painstaking and responsible with detail and routine, and feel it is important to have the right things in the right places at the right times."
















Sunday, March 27, 2011

Personality Factors

First of all, we should ask ourselves: What is the Personality? There are several definitions of the personality, but I chose this one; Personality is: "The combination of characteristics and qualities that form an individual's distinctive character, i.e the type of person you are, which is shown by the way you behave, feel and think."
According to a important neurologist and medical as Sigmund Freud, He thinks The Personality is divided 3 Levels of Awareness:


1) Conscious mind
The conscious mind is where we are paying attention at the moment. It includes only our current thinking processes and objects of attention, and hence constitutes a very large part of our current awareness.

2) Preconscious mind
The preconscious includes those things of which we are aware, but where we are not paying attention. We can choose to pay attention to these and deliberately bring them into the conscious mind.
We can control our awareness to a certain extent, from focusing in very closely on one conscious act to a wider awareness that seeks to expand consciousness to include as much of preconscious information as possible.

3) Subconscious mind
At the subconscious level, the process and content are out of direct reach of the conscious mind. The subconscious thus thinks and acts independently.
One of Freud's key findings was that much behavior is driven directly from the subconscious mind. This has the alarming consequence that we are largely unable to control our behavior, and in particular that which we would sometimes prefer to avoid.
More recent research has shown that the subconscious mind is probably even more in charge of our actions than even Freud had realized.



There are 7 Personality Factors which We were checking in class, These are:

1) Motivation: - a reason or reasons for doing something.
                       - desire to do something; enthusiasm.

2)  Anxiety:     - an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might      happen in the future.

3) Self-esteem: - belief and confidence in your own ability and value.

4) Empathy:    - the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation.

5) Introversion: - someone who is shy, quiet and unable to make friends easily.

6) Extroversion: - an energetic, happy person who enjoys being with other people.

7) Inhibiton: - a feeling of embarrassment or worry that prevents you from saying or doing what you want.















Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Second Language Acquisition

 Today We were checking  SLA ( Second Language Acquisition) where we knew some terms which are useful to the teaching to our students:


I chose 3 concepts of SLA, and these are: 

1) Insufficient time: The time is very important if we want that our students learn, sometimes It's not enough, besides we have to realize the learners pay attention but maybe they don't learn the rules grammatically and they ask themselves: Why are we learning english? Which is the purpose of this class?, We as future teachers we have to motivate to them so the time is primordial to carry it out, in many schools the schedule use to be very short (i.e reduced time)  which can affect the teacher and students both.




2) Affective Factors: This aspect is very important to treat because the students use to pay attention when the class seems to be interesting for them, we don't only give them knowledge, but also we give moral values and emotional values, but we have to take into account we can't teach if they don't want to learn, it depends on themselves. 
It's very important we consider in "Affective Factors" there are many students in the class and each of them are MORE WILLING and MORE EMBARRED than another. I condider it depends on 3 aspects: 


- Environment: It refers to according to the place where the child was born and have been taught. For instance, a child who lives in a city knows how to use a computer but a child who lives in a countryside doesn't . It doesn't mean that the child who lives in a town is more intelligent than another the child, but each of them develop their own skills and different types of learning. 




- Child-Battering: If a father or mother hit and behave violently towards his/her child phycally or psychologically, without a doubt it affects his/her personality.




-Hereditary Factors:  It means if a child is born and he/she has some problems such as congenutal defect so that he/she can't develop his/her capacity to the full.






3) Grammar translation: The Translation in several texts can be extremely complex but there are many people who work with a lot of grammar rules and techniques with the purpose of traslate masterpiece.



Well That's all what I took into account, I'll be very honest, I still have some problems because I'm not so expert to use the blog but anyway I'll do my best and I'll work hard. Goodbye Folks!!













Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Methodology

Methodology is the science of methods, or orderly arrangement, specific, the branch of logic concerned with the application of the principles reasoning to scientific and philosophical inquiry. According to teacher:  These are the activities tasks and learning experiences use by teacher within the teaching and learning processing.  


1. What did I understand TODAY?
 I understood that Methodology is a set of methods and strategies with information coherent according to a curriculum.


2. How is this connected to my future teaching experience?
Because it allows as teacher I can use differents:  techniques methods and strategies according to the curriculum and my own experience and in this way the students learn better.


3.What are 3 concepts I would highlight from this lesson?
 Methods, language teaching, and activities




Well ,That's all for today, I'll keep modificating my blog. Thanks to the readers and see you! Goodbye!