Friday, April 27, 2007

Professors from the Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala Discuss “Multiple Paths to Success: Building Motivation and Differentiating Instruction"


Nineteen professors from the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras participated in a workshop on Multiple Intelligences, Differentiating Instruction and Student and Teacher Motivation from April 18th through 20th, 2007 at the Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala.
The workshop, organized by Ary-El Ramirez Castillo, was enthusiatically received by the participants who shared their varied knowledge on the topics. Notable, was the depth of knowledge of the group as a whole and their collaborative work style.
The workshop evaluations revealed that the participants' favorite part was the discussion of Multiple Intelligences and the practical activities (in particular, creating tiered projects using Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences). Their least favorite aspect was the short amount of time for each topic. According to the evaluations, they'd like to learn more about Multiple Intelligences and Bloom's Taxonomy and their suggestions for the presenter are that she include opportunities for the teachers to apply these techniques to their own materials.
The facilitator was very impressed by the experience and insight of the participants and looks forward to future collaborations.

Sector 1 Teachers from the State of Mexico Create Blogs with Visiting Fellow

On March 28th, the enthusiastic secondary teachers from Sector 1 in the State of Mexico, organized once again by Victor Hugo Rivera - http://teachingismorethanaprofession.blogspot.com/ and Diana Castañón, got together again to create blogs for their classes with visiting Senior English Language Fellow Russell Barczyk. Check out what they did by visiting Russell Barczyk's blog at http://mexicoefltech.blogspot.com/