CREATING AWARENESS ABOUT ADDICTIONS STUDENTS MAY HAVE AT SCHOOL.

By:

Abel Andrés Periñán Morales

Omar Cruz Cuéllar

METHODOLOGY

STRATEGIES

CORPORACIÓN EDUCATIVA JEAN PIAGET

The Jean Piaget High School is located in the outskirts of Florencia city in one of the furthest neighborhoods. We developed this project with the A1 English level at this High School.

WHY TO AWARE STUDENTS ABOUT ADDICTIONS?

It is not a secret for anyone that nowadays students are very susceptible to fall into any addiction. It is our concern as teachers to be assured to prevent learners fall in that terrible world.

A1 ENGLISH COURSE

This project was carried out with the A1 level at the Jean Piaget High School. There are 19 students, 10 women and 9 men. The range of ages is from 14 to 16.

ADDICTIONS DEVELOPED DURING THE PROJECT

Blackberry

Marihuana

videogames

facebook

alcohol

PROCESS

In order to involve all students in the activities, we asked them to form 5 groups. Each group developed a different addiction during the project. There were different activities such as:

Introducing topics (Videos) Create posters against addictions

and explain them. Present the posters describing the

disadvantages of being an addicted person.

Role plays Reflecting about addictions (Los

simpsons) Conclusions

EVIDENCES

CONCLUSIONS

As a result of the entire project we realized that learners are highly motivated by teacher’s attitude. Students worked in a good way and they had a nice response to the activities planned in task and project based without being pushed or forced by the teacher.

Results of the analysis show that learner learn best when they work in groups in which there is a monitor who helps the entire group. For instance, they help each other to improve their weaknesses, this helps to enhance the whole group motivation and to improve their performance in every single skill, the results are going to be better than working individually in the activities.

Working with task and project based learning makes the learning process more meaningful and contextualized in real life situations so, the students get more involved in the activities because it fits in a good way to their needs and for instance, the teacher talking time would be decreased in a high percentage. This fact improves the learners’ communicative skills.

If the project based is done in order to solve a problem which is presented in the students’ context; the learning process will be more meaningful and students will try to use the language communicatively focusing on meaning but not in form. So they will not be concerned about mistakes and improving their performance. At this point the teacher’s role is very needed in order to correct student´s slips