Educational Linguistics Programs in Valencia

In valencian schools, there are different linguistic programs.

• Programa d'Ensenyament en Valencià (PEV) [valencian learning program]: This programm uses valencian language as the main language. After that, spanish is add. Finally, the foreign language is add.
• Programa d'Immersió Lingüística (PIL) [Linguistic Immersion Program]: This program is desing to children who speaks castilian but the family wants that their children learn fastly valencian.
• Programa d'Incorporaició Progressiva (PIP) [Progressive Incorporation Program]: This program uses spanish as the main language. Valencian is studien in one subject and is used in one subject from 3rd of primary school.
• Programa d'Educació Bilingüe Enriquit (PEBE) [Enriched Bilingual Education Program]: This program take into account to incorporate of a foreign language as a working language from the beggining of Primary Education. In relation to official language, they make a global treatment of these languages. 

 In my opinion, each program is useful in different situations. The first one is the best one to me because it garantises the knoweldge of our language. However, the second one is a necessary program to help the spanish speakers to learn fastly the languge our language. In relation to the last one, I think that it is also interesting if it is acomplish correctly and garantise the knoweldge of the trhee languages.

5 Eclectic Book Recommendation for Winter Break (Edutopia)

Elena Aguilar, Transformational Leadership Coach from Oakland, writes that she likes select her books she’ll read over in her winter break and put them on her bedside table. She propose 5 titles:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo.

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.

  

  Elena Aguilar's Book Selection

• The Cook’s Illustrated Meat Book by the editors Cook’s illustrated.

• The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein.

• Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Succes and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Widsom and Wonder by Arianna Huffington.

 

As her, I’m going to make my own list of recommendations for this Winter Break:

Some books of my book selection

• L'home manuscrit by Manuel Baixauli.

• South of the Border, West of the Sun by Murakami

• La Délicatesse by David Foekinos. 

• La verdad sobre el caso Savolta by Eduardo Mendoza.

• Gramàtica de la fantasia by Gianni Rodari. 

 And now: what's about your own list? 

You can find the Elena Aguilar's article in clicking HERE.

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

<sup>James Finn Garner is an american actor and writter. One of the most famous Finn Garner's book is this one, published in 1994. We found in this book the classical stories such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White, The frog prince... but approaching them with humor, parody and satirical point of view. 

He adapts the classical stories to include politically correct words, moralizing reactions, modern concepts and objects, and to show exchanged rols. The author tries to transmit the tolerant and respectful values. 

In my opinion, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories is perfect to work values in Secundary School because children is prepared to discuss and criticize the problems of the current society.  In fact, the book got so succes that it have been translate into 20 languages.</sup>



 

I would like to be like...

It’s difficult to me to choose only one teacher as the best teacher in my life because I have had several ones.... However, I remember one harder than the others ones.  

 In the first place, she loved their job. I think that vocational teachers get to transmit this passion to their students. For that, I hope enjoy my job every day of my life and make happy my students.

In the second place, she took care of her students but from de distance. I mean: they let children be independent to make their choices and mistakes but they were there as a reference. I think that it’s very important to respect the children’s spaces to let them develop their personalities.

And, in the last place, she trust students and students trust her. That doesn’t mean that they were our friends; that means that they were that for all that we needed.