Analysis of the Plan Destinations UK

Relate plan with the different innovate approaches

The planning is developed using different approaches which make a mix while one is applying the plan, for instance using imagination to travel in their mind to X site, then using visual aids to reinforce the images they have previously as well the supporting material gives a clear idea about the place one is teaching or talking about. At the same time, using real facts according to the place as well some informal words used by some people in the place.

Analyze cross cultural perception

There is a cross cultural process because students are learning about the situations lived in the place one is teaching to.  This cross cultural also make students to understand and analyze the different point of view or situation live in places they are not accustomed to.

Analyze if there is implementation for change

One take into consideration that there are minimal changes for developing in this planning because the plan is complete with all the  requirements and sequence to develop a class since the warm up that is very interesting and innovative until the end because it enhances students in the information given. As some of the changes one can suggest are make the activities kind of active where they are able to interact with the information instead of being just completing item in the information given. 

What are its limitations?

The limitations of this plan could be the students level owe to according to the level the plan cannot be apply as it is, so it has to have a reorganization in the information related to the students level.

 What is its competence?

The plan is competent owe to make students to participate in all different activities and get involve during the whole plan activity. As well as, it are creative, innovative and make students participate in all the activities getting them important perception about the learning process.

Is communication oriented? Why?

Yes, because it is a method based upon natural language with intense user participation in order to describe what they imagine. The dictionary defines communication as, “The process or technology by which individuals connect, share, exchange and effectively express information, ideas, thoughts or feelings electronically or by speech, writing or behavior so that it is satisfactorily received and understood.” Most of us never taught to communicate in a way that produces results, so we continue to experience frustration, resistance or conflicts because we all listen and process information differently, so it is necessary to become sensitized to the other person´s style of communications in order to align it with our own. Accordingly, we must develop a strong foundation of essential communication skills.

Is it based on learner´s analytic capability? Why?

Yes, because learner´s analytic capability refers to their skills, applications and practices for continuous investigation, so it represents widely the intention of exploring new ideas related with the topic we are teaching. In other words, students can answer questions such as what happened, how was it, and what actions occur during the trip and what will happen that represents common life and interaction with others.

Do materials rely on change or modification? Why?

Yes, because the complexity of communications networks is increasing rapidly with the introduction of new functions and services, increased connectivity, the advent of new technology and criticality of information in schools. There is a growing need for a better understanding of the technology, but in this case there is something simple according with the economical status of the institution and the learners.

Are materials and activities content-based? Why?

Yes, because it is focused on teaching about a new culture and all the activities are related with that, especially with the unusual aspects such us slangs.

Is it focused on language form? Why?

Yes, because the plan tries to students learn not only the grammar or development of speaking skill. In addition, the plan tries to students to learn about English speaking countries, the culture, customs, geography, etc, and it is an important part when we want to learn a new language.

Does it develop favorable attitudes toward task-based teaching based on a solving problem model? Why?

The development of the program about destinations UK creates favorable attitudes toward task-based teaching. The reason is task-based language teaching focuses on analytic activities as well as material and it contributes to work with different groups. The students during the activate work with different types of materials, they related symbols, statistics, slangs   and mainly encourage the work in groups. This permitted analyze many points if view when we want to know about a country. On the other hand, it is based in a solving problem model. Remember the solving problem model reviews student strengths and weaknesses, monitoring student progress. In the expansion of the class teachers can realize the progress, the capacity of students.  Also, what can know their strengths and weaknesses

Is it affected by ethical and systematic constraint? Why

No, because in the ethical and systematic constraint is based on the facts, it consists in like a chain with its weakest link. However, teachers are compromise to help students, identify their necessities, and bring a good treatment. For that, system to attain any significant improvement, that constraint must be identified and the whole system must be managed with it in mind.

How many characteristics of a renewed and innovated pedagogical practice does it have?

Characteristics:

-       analyses of material

-       motivated and suggestion the students (mainly in the warm up)

-       learn about the culture of a country

-       develop the capacity about to know by infer 

Is it innovated?

Yes it is innovated!! Mainly in the part of learn about slangs, symbols, food, etc. it is important to teach not only the grammar, the culture of a country is important too.

The importance of innovation

It is difficult  for many people to be creative but it is more difficult for a teacher  to worry about being innovating in  the form  he manage the class in order to concrete a meaningful teaching.  According  to David Hargreaves, a UK´s leaders in educational innovation of performance, “The most simple definition ... is that innovation or knowledge creation means that practitioners learn to do things differently in order to do them better.”( 2003, p. 27). Probably his thinking is more representative for educators but it may refer to incremental, emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. Innovation can be seen as a change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of inventions or discoveries. According to this, teachers who use these attributes of innovative education can produce powerful learning activities that can include three of the most important attributes for the process of learning a new language such us high expectations for achievement, learners pleasure in learning and feedback is encouraged.

There are many myths surrounding about learn a new language. For example, it is common to hear that children learn more easily than adults. This expresses an idea that memory as a body loses power over time and we do not consider this to be a function and as such does not age. However, people can learn a new language with high expectations too. Everybody can learn anything if they have the motivations and the correct tools. For that reason, the innovations used in the class are important. The key idea related to educational innovation is the activity and student participation.

It is common to experience different emotions when people are learning a language. There is the case of the most motivated and confident students that express a joy when they learn and make mistakes. Moreover, other students feel insecure and show anger or frustration. Those situations are very familiar, but if teachers use creative, new and innovative activities to help them feel comfortable, they can make the process of learning a pleasure. Consequently, it will not to be an awful experience. 

In addition, Feedback helps students to know how their performance and how they can improve in the future. For that  reason, teachers can say that it is an effective tool to learn the way about how others perceive the actions, knowledge, words and work of the individual concerned and it allows you to make known to others their perceptions.

In sort, teaching and learning form a balance between teacher and student, in which the former becomes an instrument to bolster the development of the learner. In that sense, innovation would be determined by the activity of the student, so that it becomes the main protagonist of their own learning, shifting the policy work that has always been given to the teacher, who, from an education located on innovative parameters, would be limited to lead and guide the learner in those areas should do so as well as to the extent necessary in relation to each case.