CAP 2007
This blog started as a course exercise at the University of Ulster, six years ago… and became my personal blog! However, I haven’t posted many articles in six years time, as you can see. Now, my blog has again become a course exercise, this time for the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It should contain personal comments on the course for future secondary school teachers and on my traineeship experience at Institut d’Ensenyament Secudari Miquel Tarradell.
I will start with a brief description of that high school. It is located in Raval, five minutes walk from home, which is fantastic. Being in the most cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Barcelona has some consequences.. 90% of the students are immigrants and most of them have arrived to Barcelona in the last few years, therefore some of them have difficulties speaking Catalan and Spanish.
Students’ heterogeneous cultural background and the language barrier hinder their learning pace. Discipline and formality are not as strict as in other schools but kids are good, although they have obvious learning difficulties.
Our tutor Núria is a very nice teacher that loves ‘her kids’ but at the same time has a great control of the class, especially taking into account that at least 50% of the students don’t understand anything in English.
I am attending the class 2A, but I have also been in a first grade class and in the Aula d’Acollida, where recently migrated kids try to learn Catalan and to adapt to learning in a foreign language.
This blog started as a course exercise at the University of Ulster, six years ago… and became my personal blog! However, I haven’t posted many articles in six years time, as you can see. Now, my blog has again become a course exercise, this time for the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It should contain personal comments on the course for future secondary school teachers and on my traineeship experience at Institut d’Ensenyament Secudari Miquel Tarradell.
I will start with a brief description of that high school. It is located in Raval, five minutes walk from home, which is fantastic. Being in the most cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Barcelona has some consequences.. 90% of the students are immigrants and most of them have arrived to Barcelona in the last few years, therefore some of them have difficulties speaking Catalan and Spanish.
Students’ heterogeneous cultural background and the language barrier hinder their learning pace. Discipline and formality are not as strict as in other schools but kids are good, although they have obvious learning difficulties.
Our tutor Núria is a very nice teacher that loves ‘her kids’ but at the same time has a great control of the class, especially taking into account that at least 50% of the students don’t understand anything in English.
I am attending the class 2A, but I have also been in a first grade class and in the Aula d’Acollida, where recently migrated kids try to learn Catalan and to adapt to learning in a foreign language.
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