applying life skills to the elt classroom
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Presentation given at the 21st Regional Convention of the Mexico City Chapter of MextTESOLTRANSCRIPT
Luis G. Domínguez
In the next 80 minutes
• Life Skills
– Where they come from
– What they are
– Their role in current programs
• Life Skills in the ELT classroom
– Skill related activities
Education takes place throughout life in
many forms, none of which ought to be
exclusive. We must start to think about
education in a more all-encompassing
fashion. Without all the four pillars education
would not be the same.
UNESCO Task Force on Education for the Twenty-first Century
What are the four pillars of education?
Learning to know
•Learning to know implies learning how to learn by developing one's concentration, memory skills and ability to think.
Learning to do
•How do we adapt education so that it can equip people to do the types of work needed in the future?
Learning to live together
•One of education's tasks is both to teach students about human diversity and to instill in them an awareness of the similarities and interdependence of all people.
Learning to be
•The complete fulfillment of man, in all the richness of his personality, the complexity of his forms of expression and his various commitments - as individual, member of a family and of a community, citizen and producer, inventor of techniques and creative dreamer.
What are Life Skills?
Lifelong Learning
Manipulation of information
Plan out and execute life plans
Learning to co-exist
Learning to live as part of society
Further information
Learning to know
• Lifelong Learning
Learning to do
• Manipulation of information
• Learning to co-exist
Learning to live together
• Learning to live as part of society
Learning to be
• Plan out and execute life plans
Life Skills and Current Programs
To respond to this necessity and based on what the
PND and the PROSEDU have established, the Plan de
Estudios 2009. Educación Básica. Primaria is now
considering a curricular space for the teaching of
English in primary education. Since English is included
in the Language and Communication formative field,
it incorporates to the basic education curricular map,
under the denomination of Asignatura Estatal.
Lengua Adicional: Inglés. Thereby it assures its
consistency with the subject of Spanish, and its
articulation with preschool, primary, and secondary
education.
Lifelong Learning
MI theory
Manipulation of information
To give a class…
Plan out and execute life plans
Learning to co-exist
Learning to live as part of society
Do you…
close the tab while you are brushing your teeth?
let older people sit in public transportation?
litter on the streets?
turn off the lights when you leave the rooms?
smoke in restricted areas?
respect the traffic signals?
promote the above with your students?
Your turn
Luis G. Domínguez