10 consejos para crear una rutina en casa

Los siguientes 10 consejos le ayudará a su hijo/a crear una rutina y un estilo de vida saludables.

1. Pon la alarma de tu reloj a la misma hora todas las mañanas. 

Comenzar el día con esta simple estrategia, te puede ayudar a crear una rutina saludable y se crea un patrón de sueño regular.

2. Come sano.

Intenta que todas las comidas sean variadas y con alimentos saludables.  Beber agua y/o líquidos no azucarados es otro requisito fundamental para una buena salud.

3. Vístete. 

Para crear el sentido de rutina es recomendable quitarse el pijama y ponerse ropa, ¡nos vamos a la escuela!

4. Estudiar en casa.

Así como en la escuela tenemos un tiempo para cada materia o asignatura, igualmente en casa es recomendable hacer una actividad a la vez.

De esta manera trabajamos la concentración en el estudio. Serán más eficaces. ;)

5. Pausas activas.

En cada cambio de actividad es recomendable hacer una pausa activa.  Las pausas activas tienen múltiples beneficios: disminuye el estrés, estimula y favorece la circulación, mejora la postura…

6. Televisión y tablets.

No es recomendable que pasen un tiempo excesivo con la televisión ni con los dispositivos electrónicos.

7. Jugar.

Una de las citas más célebres del gran Jean Piaget fue:  “El juego es el trabajo de la infancia”.

El juego es parte de su desarrollo. Asigna tiempo para jugar.  Te lo agradecerán.

8. Tareas domésticas.

Las tareas de la casa son responsabilidad de todos. Además de ser responsable, les ayudará a desarrollar sus habilidades motoras, potenciará el sentido de organización…

¡Manos a la obra!

9. Tiempo para meditar. 

Hacer yoga, practicar meditación o relajación tiene múltiples beneficios a niveles físicos y mentales.

¡Ommmm! 

10. Irse a la cama temprano.

Dormir temprano tiene muchos beneficios. Cuando el cerebro está descansando, la memoria funciona a la perfección.

¡Buenas noches!

¡Hasta mañana!

Introductory video: Francisco Usero Gonzalez

Tips para ayudar a estudiar en casa

Tips para aprender en casa

Ufff! No sé qué hacer en casa! Leo en las redes sociales a los padres, madres, familias...

Aquí les ofrecemos 3 estrategias que te ayudarán en los estudios en casa.

1) A clase!!!! La importancia de tener un horario o una rutina de estudio.

Un horario ayuda a recrear la jornada escolar. Por lo que si empezamos la clase a la misma hora que cuando ibas a la escuela, les ayudará en su rutina.

Si crees que no es necesario un horario, intenta crear unas normas para crear un hábito de estudio.

2) Materiales en casa, nuestro mejor apoyo.

Proveer materiales a tus "estudiantes-hijos" es muy importante, y aún mejor si estos materiales se pueden usar con las manos, ya que les ayudará a comprender la parte abstracta del estudio, especialmente en matemáticas.

En muchos videos verás materiales "profesionales", en la cocina encontrarás todo los que necesita: lentejas, palillos,...

Este consejo es recomendable para las etapas de Educación Infantil y Primaria, aunque también se pueden usar a otros niveles superiores si fuera necesario.

3) Cuéntame, ¿qué aprendiste hoy?

Asegurate de que lecturas, tareas y actividades estén hechas. Una buena manera de comprobarlo es al final del tiempo dedicado a cada lección o asignatura hacer preguntas de comprensión como ¿qué aprendiste hoy? ¿cómo termina la historia/cuento/lectura? ¿cómo son sus personajes?

Explicar y enseñar a otros, según la taxonomía de Bloom, es una de las estrategias de aprendizaje.

Si crees que necesitan algún refuerzo, comunicalo a sus maestros/as, ellos sabrán aconsejarles.

No te olvides de felicitarles por el gran trabajo realizado. Una vez hayan trabajado tienen tiempo para relajarse y divertirse, a todos nos gusta ser premiados ;)

Y recuerda, en esto estamos todos juntos!

Corona virus y la enseñanza a distancia

Desde que empezaron las noticias sobre la expansión del virus Covid-19 por todo el mundo, las escuelas empezaron a cerrar sus aulas y abrir sus pantallas. El cierre abrupto de las escuelas fue un cambio brusco en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

La enseñanza a distancia es una forma de distancia social. De hecho, es una de las mejores formas de detener la expansión del coronavirus y tenerlo bajo control. Sin embargo, esta distancia puede llegar a ser un obstáculo.

Enseñanza en red para todos.

La enseñanza a distancia a través de los dispositivos tecnológicos, conocido por el término anglosajón "e-learning", ha traido muchos cambios a nuestros "deberes" diarios. Para los que ya hicimos estudios online en el pasado esto no es más que una continuación de lo ya vivido. Para otros, muchos, es un reto, un desafío al que sacarle el mejor partido posible en el menor tiempo posible, sus estudiantes y sus familias les esperan.

Ms Castaneda es una antigua compañera de trabajo, maestra de educación primaria. A diario Ms. C. usa su computadora para acceder a los recursos en linea ya sea para poner canciones, videos u otros recursos audiovisuales que apoyan su lección. En ocasiones, publica alguna foto en las redes sociales e intenta comunicarse con sus familias a través de este medio. Siempre hay alguna queja del uso de redes sociales o comunicación digital por parte de alguna familia, pero es parte de nuestro proceso docente.

Sigue tu ritmo, pon límites.

Al igual que en la escuela, tanto docentes como estudiantes tenemos un horario que cumplir. Hay muchos horarios circulando por la red que les pueden servir de ayuda o de inspiración. Tener un horario o calendario con las tareas a hacer nos ayudará a organizanos nuestro tiempo. De hecho, el no tener un horario puede dar la sensación de tener que estar ocupado o trabajando las 24 horas. ¿Qué ocurre después? El síndrome de "burnout". Esta sensación no solo afecta a los docentes, con la idea de que tienen que compartir todas las ideas que encuentren interesantes en Internet con decenas de actividades; o los estudiantes, que si no se organizan pueden estar haciendo la tarea hasta la hora de la cena, con lo que afecta al resto de sus familias.

Comunicación y más comunicación.

Establecer una comunicación fluida con los estudiantes y con los docentes es la mejor manera de que todo salga bien. Las familias conocen a sus hijos/as pero no como estudiantes de escuela, ya que allí hay normas, horarios, y muchas más cosas que influyen sus vidas académicas. En casa, las familias deben informarse y comprender este hecho, al igual que un trabajo, el estudio requiere de unas condiciones para que todo salga bien, y sobre todo constancia.

La comunicación del equipo docente es vital. Un consenso en el programa de actuación es muy importante, ya que ayudará a los estudiantes y familias a reducir su posible frustración por ejemplo si un docente envía muchas más actividades o lecturas que sus compañeros/as.

En este proceso hay pros y contras, como en todo, pero a pesar de la distancia estamos todos conectados. Aprovecha tus medios de información y comunicación para preguntar y resolver tus dudas, TODAS. En definitiva hay algo que no cambia, la misión de las familias y escuelas CONTINÚA siendo la misma, el éxito personal y profesional para todos los estudiantes.

Recursos virtuales GRATIS

¡Recursos virtuales GRATIS!

Entre todos juntos podremos superarlo sin dejar de aprender en casa.

Durante el confinamiento o aislamiento por el COVID-19 (o coronavirus), la mayoría de las escuelas cerrados. Como educador siento la necesidad de ayudar, aunque sea con poco, a las familias y los docentes que buscan ayuda.  A nivel profesional educativo, los docentes tienen la tarea de descubrir nuevas formas de desarrollar su actividad, cómo hacer sus lecciones y actividades a distancia para sus estudiantes. Las familias y tutores legales, desde sus hogares, tratan de ayudar a sus hijos/as con sus estudios. Por esta razón les comparto una lista de recursos virtuales educativos, a los que podrán acceder desde sus dispositivos móviles digitales o computadores y ordenadores.

¡Disfruten y aprendan!

Niveles de Educación Infantil y Primaria

ABCMouse

Es una web y app de aprendizaje que incluye lecciones, actividades, canciones, lecturas y otros recursos y materiales para todas las asignaturas de Educación Infantil y Primaria.

Adventure Academy

De los creadores de ABCMouse nace esta web con recursos y actividades para todas las asignatures para estudiantes de 8 a 13 años.

ReadingIQ

Es una biblioteca en tu bolsillo, bueno en celular o tableta ;)
Aquí podrás encontrar lecturas para todas las edades y para todos los gustos. No hay excusas para no leer.

Reading A-Z

Al igual que la web anterior aquí podrás encontrar miles de lecturas para todos los niveles, además hay fichas de trabajo con divertidas actividades.

Learning A-Z

Con miles de recursos y actividades para aprender de la mejor manera, divirtiéndose.

Boddle

Boddle tiene miles de actividades y juegos matemáticos.

BrainPOP y BrainPopJr

Tienen muchos recursos como videos, lecturas, juegos y preguntas, e incluso para "programación-coding". BrainPOPJr es para los más jóvenes ;)

BreakoutEDU

Esta web tiene muchos juegos online que tanto gustan a nuestros estudiantes, incluso hay algunos "escape rooms". Creo que es una buena manera de hacer una pausa si tus hijos/as leen o ven videos por mucho tiempo.

TeachersPayTeachers

Es una web a la carta, aquí puedes encontrar lo que estás buscando. Usas la barra de búsqueda y seleccionas el curso/grado y aparecerán muchos recursos, actividades,... Además si valoras las actividades o recursos descargados TpT te premia.
Create tu perfil y empieza a ayudar a tus peques en casa con lo que necesitan.
¡Hay muchas actividades y recursos GRATIS!
¡IMPORTANTE! Pregunta a tu director/a - principal si la escuela tiene cuenta con TpT porque la escuela puede pedir los recursos a través de los maestros/as.

¡IMPORTANTE! Pregunta a tu maestro/a si la escuela tiene cuenta con TpT porque la escuela puede pedir los recursos a través del director/a - principal.


Carrot-TOP

Es una web con recursos para docentes norteamericanos.

Search Results

Web Result with Site Links

Classroom Champions

Web de recursos para docentes.

Search Results

Web Result with Site Links

CreositySpace - Meet Us

CreositySpaces products make STEM current, real and relatable for students and teachers by connecting them to STEM through entrepreneurship.

EDHelper

EdHelper es un servicio en línea que proporciona hojas de trabajo imprimibles para maestros y padres de educación en el hogar.

Infographic: visual academic report card

My ePortfolio post: https://userogonzalez.weebly.com/infographic



Visual academic reports

This week we learned how to create infographic. As a former dual-language PreK teacher I was interested in finding the outcomes of English and Spanish language students in HISD enrolled in the HIPPY program.
After following the instructions, I found this report with the outcomes by CIRCLE assessment during 2017-2018.
To create this final image, I used PowerPoint. With the information from the report I edited all the images, especially I modified them with transparency option. To blend the chart with another picture related to this topic I selected a picture from freepik.com (a royalty-free image website).



With the image options I edited the graph colors to make them more prominent and the image from freepik a bit transparent to let the data be read.
To create the image, I copied and pasted the screenshot of the slide 3 to Paint and I saved the image in a JPEG file.

Presentation of social media and family involvement

A picture is worth a thousand words

At present, an image, whether fixed or moving, is the fundamental piece of any project where something is meant to be said, even without the text. Such is the importance of the pictures in today's world; and even more its quality!

https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/martin-berube/square-animal/256/Horse-icon.png

   
vs

https://posterfoundry.com/wild-chesnut-draft-horse-running-photo-art-print-poster-12x18/

In this way, the images we take or access from the internet are not the same, beyond their size and resolution. There are many image formats, and all of them have a specific purpose. Although it appears to be the same, an image for a ready-to-print logo is not and can not be the same as a web-prepared image.

Images and digital files

There are file formats that can be manipulated by any sort of editing application and pictures, such as JPG, PNG, GIF, to name a few, that is, we won't need a specific software to be able to use them, as all editing applications have help to be able to work with this type of images.

https://ignitiondrawing.blog/2018/05/29/what-is-the-difference-between-a-jpg-png-and-gif/

Which one is the best?

In the article Solved - Best Image Format for the Web? PNG, JPG, GIF, and SVG you can read about you the different image formats. Maybe this chart can help you:

https://www.pagecloud.com/blog/web-images-png-vs-jpg-vs-gif-vs-svg

Although there are some applications on the market that can carry out this task, such as the exceptional Gimp, a free and free photo retouching software, the truth is that we always run the risk that the information contained in the PSD file will not be properly interpreted, so we will be facing a safe disaster.

Some recommendations to use images successfully:

• Catch the attention: with them, you will be able to capture your readers ' attention, entertain them, and eventually get them more interested in your story.
• Easy reading: you will be able to ease the reading of any of your readers so that the information gathering process is much more enjoyable.
• Learn and Teach: Thanks to the use of images such as infographics, your readers will be able to capture your article's message much better and apply the information learned much more effectively.
• Beauty and quality: an article with quality images can make a leap in quality by obtaining a much more professional appearance.
• Improving Positioning

My favorite image formatting apps:



Gimp a free software that will allow you to easily retouch your pictures, producing more than satisfactory results. This powerful tool has become an alternative to Photoshop whose number of followers rises day by day.

Among many of its features stand out:

• pick all types of shapes
• Smart Scissors for cutting 
• Error Correction 
• Editing Tools 
• Filters 
• Possibility to export files in all types of formats (jpg, png, gif, svg, etc...)

Pixlr is an online editor whose main goal is to be able to perform simple touch-ups to customize our images in just a couple of seconds.

Pixlr currently has four software to use depending on the interface from which you are accessing them (computer or smartphone)

Digital image banks

- freepik.com - I have a membership
- dreamstime.com
- openphoto.net
- cepolina.com has pictures from all over the world.
- amgmedia.com is well known by teachers.
- imagefree.com
 
Be fun and creative!!! ;)

We have some questions (for our assignment), do you want to be part of our learning process? Here you are...

1. What adventure did you complete?
2. What did you learn that was new to you? Please be specific about the skills and knowledge you learned in this adventure.
3. How will you use these skills in your teaching?
4. What questions do you still have about this content?
5. Where will you go from here? How will you get there?

Effective Infographics step by step

What are Infographics? 

Infographics are a visual representation that includes maps, charts, graphs and diagrams that allow simple, complex concepts to be communicated.

Why use infographics?

• Analysis presentation: helps to better understand the information presented thanks to visual support, schematization, and organization skills.
• Content resource: a good way to explain content and information of the subject or lesson. 
• Motivation: Learning becomes more enjoyable and easier 
• Social media and learning: infographics create greater participation (interaction) in social networks, increasing the visibility of the message in the online environment.
• We humanize material: content that is more affable and familiar as it is easily understood.
• We help us remember: we have a tendency to recall more what we see than what we hear.

An example of the use of infographics:

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Retrieved from https://elearninginfographics.com/design-visual-aids-for-teaching-purposes/

Infographic design

Be careful with all these factors while designing your infographics:

1. Be creative: copying graphic ideas from other infographics should be avoided.
2. Text & Pictures: Graphically, an infographic should be rich avoiding building it with a lot of text.
3. Color: Effective contrast colors should be used to encourage reading. An outstanding color selection method is color.adobe.com
4. Fonts: An infographic should have a creative use of fonts and letter sizes. The Dafont.com site contains a wide variety of sources that can be used as a reference.
5. Icons: An infographic will include basic symbols (icons) in order to communicate properly. The Iconarchive.com site has very good material.

Tools for making infographics

The main free tools for creating infographic elements:

- PiktoChart is a web tool that allows you to create beautiful infographics from a few models and artifacts that are added with a quick drag and drop. It allows you to customize colors and fonts in just a click, being very easy to use. The free option is a bit limited but it allows you to make easy infographics.

How To Create a Piktochart Infographic Easily

- Canva is a software tool that allows people who are not designers to design and create images for the Web. It has free templates to develop infographics easily.

How To Create Infographics (The Ultra-Simple & Easy Way)

Mindmaps

Why use mind maps?
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To get the most efficient and full research cycle possible, you can surround yourself with the best network advantages of the online educational tools. One of the most useful, certainly, are mind maps, with which you can easily create visually appealing schemes that will stimulate your imagination. You will receive the following benefits in the study with this resource:

• Link various syllabus concepts and research areas 
• Organize your tasks or study lessons on different subjects
• Bring the content you need to learn into perspective

By making a mind map you can link and envision ideas to help you understand the study agenda more easily. And the best thing is that you can use this tool for free and at no expense whatsoever. Check it out and you'll see how the research process gets enhanced when you have good fingertip training material.
I tried to organize my ideas of my research on social media and family involvement:

https://www.mindmeister.com/1410020405/social-media-and-low-ses-latino-family-involvement-in-early-childhood-education-1

What do you think?
I think that it helps you organize your ideas. I really like the option of the presentation. There are different options to share with your team or just share a link for others to see it.

Intuitive and simple.         
                                                                                     
To design and create a mind map with mindmeister is so easy and intuitive. Just follow some simple steps:
1. Choose which subject you want to discuss and start filling the nodes with the learning concepts.
2. It won't take you more than a couple of minutes to take the entire study material into context and easily connect each idea.
3. Once you have visually captured all the study, you can add some audio-visual support that you will help your students understand the whole lesson efficiently.

Significant learning and visual support.If you think about it, you will realize that learning is connecting ideas. There are times, however, that it is complicated to arrange all our thoughts and find a conductor thread among them. In these cases, Mindmeister is perfect for retaining information and organizing the different sections of the topic you need to study. They also manage to enhance your creativity and imagination to unsuspected limits.

As you create your map, you will see how your study material begins to make more sense and become easier than you thought.

Gathering Student Input through Technology

21st-Century Teachers incorporate Student Input & Gather Feedback

Many applications allow students to provide live and online feedback.

- Google Forms (Survey) and PollEverywhere are two of many apps that make it quick and easy to create simple polls that enable teachers to gather input or feedback from students. They can vote in those surveys with the use of a digital device, we know how much they love using technology in class.
- Socrative is another free app that allows teachers to go far beyond basic polls to get more complex quizzes, or just use it to quickly and easily get feedback.

Some experience of my class and presentations:

GOOGLE FORMS - SURVEY


As I mentioned before in one of the comments, I used surveys from Google forms like the ones I offered at the end of one of my workshop-presentations for teachers: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejT_NGyPZPDIf6loI-WZQ75-l0y8trNxiizJPdmzAkc9dcdQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

The title of the presentation is "Words can talk: An innovative use of technology in Shared-Book Reading". There, the participants learned about the use of Augmented Reality in a Spanish class for Prek students to develop biliteracy. At the end of the presentation, with a QR code linked to the survey, the audience could scan it and answer the questions related to the content of the presentation and their interest of using this kind of technology. Previously, I showed only the QR codes, but after having some problems with the QR scan apps and added the short url link just under the code. Another problem I faced was that not all the participants were familiar with QR scan apps, so before the presentation, I invited them to download this kind of apps. On the walls or flyers delivered to the participants, I included a brief explanation step by step about how to download it.

The google forms are intuitive and easy to fill, most of the participants found them easy to answer. Once everyone answered the survey I could see the results and some graphics.

KAHOOT!

Kahoot! is a fun and interactive way to help your students learn. With the concept of gamification in your classroom, learning is fun, just like playing.

When working with my Dual-Language Spanish Pre-K students we were learning vocabulary with this tool. First, the vocabulary was introduced in the "word wall" to the whole class. Then, we set some ABC stations to practice learning with oral and written skill development. In small groups, one way to check understanding and their language skills was with Kahoot! Three or four students were sitting with me in the small group table, I helped them use the app. I was granted with some tablets to help students develop learning experiences and 21st-Century skills, that is why every student had the chance to use digital devices during class. They typed the code: 2402990 and we started the activity.

The challenges I faced in the very beginning was that most of the students were not familiar with the app, and I needed to spend some time explaining and practicing for weeks. One of our gifts as Prek teachers: PATIENCE. After several weeks, they learned how to use it and they really enjoyed learning with Kahoot!. After some time using the app, I found some other ways to improve learning with this app. For example, when some students failed the answers I invited all of them to find the answer in the classroom, so in this way, they were physically active during the activity. Depending on their level, I invited them to explore the room and find the answer. Therefore, they were developing other skills like "learning by discovery", communication, physical development, social skills...

I do not want to generalize, but many educators in Early Childhood Education do not like using technology as part of the learning process. However, I found technology as a motivating component and tool of their learning process. In addition, parents are invited to use Kahoot! too and use the activities we are using in class to practice at home.

GUIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICIES IN EUROPE Chapter 5: Creating a culture of plurilingualism ENSEMBLE workshop ECML, Graz, ppt download

GUIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICIES IN EUROPE Chapter 5: Creating a culture of plurilingualism ENSEMBLE workshop ECML, Graz, ppt download: Creating a culture of plurilingualism l How can we –promote plurilingual education? –show its political, social and educational relevance? –make it feasible? l No need to start from scratch l But need to rethink teaching objectives

EDUCATION IN A MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY POLICY FOR DEVELOPING SECOND AND THIRD LANGUAGES AS MEDIA FOR LEARNING.

Jsp UNIT 2. EDUCATION IN A MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY POLICY FOR DEVELOPING SECOND AND THIRD LANGUAGES AS MEDIA FOR LEARNING. - ppt download: jsp WARM UP WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE ASSUMPTION THAT LEARNING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES HAS BECAME A NEED IN ORDER TO AVOID SOCIAL EXCLUSION?

MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE

PLURILINGUAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE Promotion of plurilingual education as a value and competence. Plurilingualism: the ability to use several languages for. - ppt download: PROMOTING PLURILINGUALISM Some desirable actions to promote plurilingualism can be the following: –To enhance the status and development of linguistic repertoires considered as the linguistic varieties (languages) –Developing pluricultural awareness and intercultural communication. –Educating for democratic citizenship in Europe.

Multilingual Education programs in Spain

Plurilingualism Promotion Plan - ppt download: Main objective of the plan Improve the language skills of Andalusian people in their mother tongue and provide them with plurilingual and pluricultural skills.