Understanding Key Competences and Educational Tasks
Exercises, Activities, and Social Tasks in Education
Exercises
Exercises are actions oriented to check the management of a particular knowledge:
- They don’t contribute to the acquisition of the Key Competences.
- Although they can be boring, they are necessary.
Example (First and Second Year): Order the letters and write (eggs, chips, fish, meat, chicken). [Image] – Disordered word and gap.
Activities
Activities are actions oriented to gain new knowledge or to use existing knowledge in a different way:
- They
Developing Key Competences Through Social Tasks
Social Task: Social tasks are didactic proposals designed to develop key competences. These tasks are experience-based, allowing pupils to learn through experience. We will evaluate the social task with rubrics. The social task is based on a project comprising the following sections: Introduction, Description of the task, Objectives, Content, Context, Key competences, Resources, and Products.
Key Competences
Linguistic Communication
It deals with the functional control of a foreign language.
- Awareness:
Essential Skills for Personal and Professional Growth
Skills: Knowing how to use everything that school, the street, family, and society teach us to address general situations in daily life. Basic Skills: Language communicative competence. Mathematical competence. Knowledge of and interaction with the physical world. Data processing and digital competence. Social and civic competence. Artistic and cultural competence. Competence of learning to learn. Autonomy and initiative. Concept of Competence: The European Union defines competencies as: “The combination
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Oral Genres
Dialogues
Dialogues are those whose realization is based on the dialogue between two or more persons.
Conversation
Conversation is the primary and most typical form of human communication. It is characterized by:
- The presence of interactive interlocutors in a relationship.
- Immediacy, as participants share a given time and space.
- The absence of pre-established speech turns.
The channel of colloquial or informal spontaneous conversation varies with the relationship between speakers and informs
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Ongoing Assessment
Ongoing Assessment (often called formative) is what we do on a daily basis, continuously, when we intentionally look for information which will help us to see how far a pupil is making progress in line with our objectives. Ongoing assessment is most important for both teacher and pupil. Teachers use the information gained to help pupils by building their teaching or by providing them with specific help. So pupils benefit immediately from the results of the assessment. Example:
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Unit 17: Songs in the English Classroom
Introduction. Current research in the field of FLT states that students’ motivation and interests are amongst the most important factors when learning a foreign language. One way to raise students’ motivation and improve teaching effectiveness is the use of songs. If songs are carefully chosen, they can help with learning and consolidating linguistic elements, developing communicative skills, appreciating stylistic features, and learning sociocultural elements.
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