How would you assess their learning?

  If I were not so limited for my curriculum when I have to include so many aspects of my working life, I would include same personal views about Physical Education teaching in the students.

Nowadays, not only all the schools take into account the CLIL method in their educative projects. For this reason, each school can choose if they teach their subjects in a foreign language or not. I really think that it´s a mistake not learning English since an early age. If you do this task more attractive for them when they are little, they will learn to appreciate it. Besides, my subject has a lot of advantages respect to others because in physical education you can learn in a funny and simple way.

  
  If a were a teacher in a future and could decide how to organize my classes, I would start to speak them since children´s education although wouldn´t  understand me well. I know this is not a problem in my subject, because I am aware of beingable  to use also gestual language to communicate with them, and they can also use this method with their friends.

  
  I consider that the control of their development related to their progress in a foreign language would be evaluated each certain time not only for any teacher of each subject but also there would be a general proof where many kinds of vocabulary are evaluated and so it can get information about each child, in general terms, about his English level, but at the same time find out in which type of vocabulary he makes more mistakes or not. Through this periodical evaluation, parents could know their progress deeply and so know what are really their needs.

If I could put into practice this method, I would do it at the beginning of the course with the main objective that each teach could really evaluate their progress.

Depending  of the level of each course; I would have to adapt the level of the contents, procedures and attitudes related to the foreign language skills, personally, when they have to communicate in English without forgetting, as I have said before, that the gestures are as important as the oral communication in physical education subject.

  
  To sum up, I am conscious that if we want a good learning of the language at the same time they are learning our subject, we must start since an early age because it´s really true that children learn much better when they are little. But his method will not work if schools don´t carry out a deep control about the evaluation of each child regarding their English level.

I am really convinced that if this would be carried out, the Spain English level would be superior to another countries.

My english language portfolio for my classes

 I consider that this projects is completely useful to work with students since it has been designed and elaborated thinking about the needs of each student. However, the application of this method can vary according to the background of each learner.

  On the one hand, having a previous information about the level of the class in which you are going to develop this project it helps you to elaborate a proper English Language Portfolio.

Besides, joining the students in different groups regardless the background of each student so as to get the most information of each one. Any idea can always be good for their project.

Another advantage is that this method gets better the autonomy of each one at the same time they work in groups not always depending on their teacher.

I consider that one of them main advantage is that having worked this portfolio this portfolio really well they will be able to use it as a tool of learning when they need.

  On the other hand, we must consider that not all the students have the same background and their needs are really different, if you create a ELP in general depending on the level of each learner they will need more or less time to adapt it. Indeed, if they have more problems to work with it, they will need more teachers help as a teacher, we must always take into account this factor. For that reason, we must have a lot of information about each student which will help us to get better their evolution.

For me, the main disadvantage will be how to evaluate each student their participation and progress in this project.

If they do not finish their tasks at school, they will have to finish at home and evidently is a disadvantage because you do not really know if they have made an effort and have do the task themselves or this has been done by another person. Related to this, it is also difficult to know if they have worked the same amount of time since most of the time not all of them work equally.

  To sum up, I consider that ELP is a really interesting project to do during my sessions with my learners because it can be very positive in their learning. I am aware of the difficulty of this task so I will have to do it well before.