Intermediate group B is comprising by 19
students from grades 1001 and 1002 of the morning shift from Misael Pastrana Borrero school. Their ages are
between 15 and 18.
Taking into account our institutional
methodology that consists on organizing English groups by levels, considering their
interests, motivations, abilities and skills in the acquisition of this second
language rather than the degree to which they belongs to. The group chosen to carry
out this project is the basic one in cycle V, who are characterized by
having some difficulties in the acquisition of English, sometimes not very
interested because they believe that English is not necessary in their lives.
Their strengths are not focused on this subject,
which makes this exercise become a challenge for the teacher, and of course,
for the students, who definitely need more support and motivation to
communicate and interact using English language. For that reason, the project also seeks to encourage students and reflect on how important it can be to speak a
second language and the opportunities that this brings.
It should also be emphasized that despite being
a heterogeneous group from the academic, because mostly during their previous
years have had difficulty in learning English, their personal characteristics
are very different.
Most of them live in the Lomas neighborhood, in
a social stratum 1 and 2, however these social characteristics have not
prevented them from feeling interest and commitment to the project, since it
has been a different way of building knowledge, approaching English and more
particularly, to reflect on important problems for our city and our
surroundings.
The project "EARTH IS IN OUR
HANDS" arises from the need to motivate and improve the levels of language
of the intermediate group B through the approach and adaptation of the
suggested curriculum that the education ministry does, also, taking into account the Basic Learning Rights, the XXI Century Skills and the Project Basic Learning approach.
The chosen module is the one of Sustainability since along with the students, we consider that this one is
directly linked to the Herbario Virtual Bilingüe project, which has been
developed during the last three years with the students of grades 1001 and
1002 , what It makes more sense and relevance to this project, because the
students of the intermediate level B could felt more identified and interested with this
topic.
Taking into account the
characteristics of the group and the school, we have designed and implemented our project,
considering how important is to evaluate the impact of human being actions on the environment as well as understanding and analysis some of the 17
sustainability objectives proposed by the UN.
During the fist session and after a long discussion, we made the following decisions:
Module: Sustainability.
Goal: evaluate the impact of the human being actions on the environment.
Driving Questions: How can we make the world a better place to live in?
Final Result: A campaign about responsible actions.
