“PIBID UEPG – ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: CONNECTNG CULTURES, BUILDING KNOWLEDGE”

On Monday, May 21st, 2012, PibidEnglishers went to Campus UEPG – Uvaranas - to welcome the Indians exchange professionals that were visiting our city, Ponta Grossa. First we greeted all of thm and then started all the presentations about what they were doing in Brazil, how was their city, culture, path of life, sights, ways of dressing, parties, customs and everything that we don’t know very well. The Event was called “PIBID UEPG – ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: CONNECTNG CULTURES, BUILDING KNOWLEDGE” where that all the Pibid colleagues could get together to present different aspects from our country such as music, food, tradition, customs… We also did a dynamic with them, that they had to say what they liked in Brazil, what they occupations are, and names in Portuguese, to practice a little bit of our language, and of course, some students said all these in Hindi, their language. After the presentations, dynamics and the coffee break, they showed us how was the dance in their country. And some people had to dance with them. We must say that is a very cool dance and that we had fun!

Thaisa Prado

Workshops based on games

The 12 UEPG PIBIDEnglishers ran various workshops based on games at the Colégio Estadual Professor Júlio Teodorico. The workshops were held from the 14^th to 21st May in collaboration with Silvana Dück and Mara Lúcia Serpa, English teachers of the 8^th, 9^th graders and senior high school students from the morning and evening groups.

The workshops are part of the activities that PIBIDnglishers will develop until the end of the project in 2013. The decision to have activities based on games came from a questionnaire the students answered in 2011. “Real or virtual” games were mentioned as the number one free time activity by most of the students.

Thus, one of the aims of the workshops was to relate students´ interests and the learning of English. Students not only had the opportunity to learn about the origin of various games and pastime activities, their rules, but also play and have fun. Some of the games were not new to the students such as bingo, chess and peteca, while others were new, for example, lame chicken and the glove. One of the highlights of the workshops was the game created by Suelen Hneda, a game in which students had to use their logical skills. It was a very fun and challenging game.

PIBIDENglishers tried as much as possible to provide students with meaningful English learning opportunities. I can say the experience was quite positive to the future English teachers as they had research about games that could be used in EFL classes, develop materials for the games, plan and run the workshops and deal with unexpected situations.

I would like to thank the collaboration of the pedagogical and managing team for their support before, during and after the workshops. Special thanks for the teachers who kindly swap classes and schedules with the English teachers, the ladies who helped organize and clean the classes and for the managing team that allowed the use of the multimedia TV.

Thaisa de Andrade Jamoussi

Reuniões de Fevereiro, Março e Abril

Nos meses de fevereiro, março e abril o Subprojeto PBID Inglês, realizou em torno de oito reuniões, essas reuniões ocorreram sempre às sextas-feiras, como já é de costume. Durante essas reuniões, diversos temas foram abordados, vários recados foram passados aos bolsistas e muitas atividades desenvolvidas, como apresentações de trabalhos, preparações para eventos e atividades para um melhor desenvolvimento da proficiência em L.E dos alunos.

PIBID English takes part at the III Abrapui Congress

 The III Abrapui Congress was held at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis from the 5^th to the 9^th of May. Abrapui stands for Associação Brasileira de Professores Universitários de Inglês and the theme of the congress was Language and Literature in the Age of Technology.

http://www.abrapui.org/congresso2012/pt/ocongresso

The congress started on a beautiful Sunday afternoon with various workshops. I attended the workshop about Web2 tools 4 EFL Classroom and Beyond given by professor Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva (UFMG). It was a mix of a presentation and a “hands-on” workshop in which participants had the chance to learn and try some tools for the teaching of English.  Professor Menezes showed how some tools such as bookr, wallwisher  and  glogster have been used by her students and how they can contribute to teachers´ and students´ interaction.

In addition to the workshop, I had the opportunity to attend individual and joint presentations, round tables, as well as three poster sessions (not to mention the delicious coffee break!). The theme of the presentations included initial and continuing English teacher education, reports of classroom experiences, recent research about teacher education and reports of activities developed by the PIBIDs from Paraná, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul.

My participation in the congress consisted of a poster about the PIBID – English  UEPG whose title was A Formação Inicial de Professores de Língua Inglesa: Reflexões sobre o PIBID. During the poster session I was able to exchange ideas and experiences with teachers and students involved with PIBID. Needless to say, it is always and enriching experience.

My second presentation, a joint session entitled Formação Inicial e Continuada de Professores de Língua Inglesa: As Contribuições do Estágio, da Extensão e de um Programa de Incentivo à Docência – which was held on  9th May with professors Clarissa Menezes Jordão (UFPR) and Édina Aparecida Cabral Buhrer (UNICENTRO).

Presenting and watching presentations at the Abrapui congress contributed to my professional development and allowed me to discuss experiences about successful (and not so successful!)  classroom practices with teachers from all over Brazil. Also, I had the opportunity to meet undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers from Para, Paraná, Alagoas, Mato Grosso and so many other places.

I would like to thank CAPES and the PIBID UEPG institutional coordination for the financial support that allowed me to travel and participate in the event.

Thaisa de Andrade Jamoussi – DEMET – UEPG – Coordinator of the PIBID- English Project at the UEPG

Viagem Cultural

Na última quinta feira, dia 26 de abril, dois Pibidenglishers, convidados pelo Pibid Francês, participaram de uma viagem cultural até a cidade de Curitiba. A primeira parada do grupo aconteceu na Cinemateca de Curitiba, onde o filme “Brasa adormecida” do diretor brasileiro Djalma Batista, foi transmitido para os pibidianos. Em seguida o filme ”Brasa Dormida”, de Humberto Mauro, que serviu de inspiração para o título Brasa adormecida, da primeira sessão, foi passado para que tivessem conhecimento da origem do nome e contexto do primeiro filme. Após conhecermos as instalações e os acervos de mídia e películas cinematográficas da cinemateca, o grupo se dirigiu até o Shopping Palladium de Curitiba, onde almoçaram. Em seguida, no mesmo shopping, o grupo visitou a livraria Cultura, aproveitando para comprarem livros, DVDs e CDs. O último lugar a ser visitado foi o Museu Oscar Niemeyer, podendo ser apreciadas, além de outras exposições, mostras dos trabalhos de Goya, do fotógrafo Lituano Antanas Sutkus, e do grande artista paranaense Poty, finalizando um dia de grande aprendizado artístico e cultural. 

Phellip Willian Gruber.

A SURPRISE BIRHTDAY PARTY

Whoever thought that PIBIDENglish was only about reading, writing lesson plans and developing activities at Julio Teodorico School .....

well, they were wrong! Yesterday we had a very special morning. PibidENglishers threw a surprise birthday party! Guess whose birthday it was…Yes…mine! And dear Bruna, Loriane, Michele, Maycon, Phellip, Felipe, Luciano, Eliandre, Suelen, Emanuelle, Thaisa and Mara really surprised me as well as our new PibidEnglisher, Monica.
It was a sweet demonstration of consideration, respect, and friendship. Soon the pictures and the videos (HOPE NOT the videos, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) will be on the blog and you will see how lovely it was. There were balloons, “salgadinhos”, soda, coffee and a DELICIOUS cake prepared by Bruna’s mom. I even played the guitar and finally learned the lyrics of our jingle!!!

THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!

I was really happy and touched by your sweet demonstration of LOVE. 

Thaisa de Andrade Jamoussi

Reunião Pedagógica - Abril

No dia 5 de Abril, três integrantes do PIBID – Thaísa Andrade (coordenadora), Phellip Gruber e Thaísa Prado (bolsistas) - participaram da Reunião Pedagógica no Colégio Estadual Júlio Teodorico.

No primeiro momento foi apresentado um vídeo do Professor Gretz sobre motivação – disponível em www.gretz.com.br – que abordava o trabalho em equipe com pessoas e para pessoas, sobre as atitudes diante de novos desafios e trabalhos propostos. Após a apresentação, professores e coordenadores comentaram sobre o vídeo, o qual foi interessante e criativo, podendo ser aplicado na escola algumas dicas que foram apresentadas.

Em seguida foi realizada a apresentação do PIBID que incluiu comentários sobre os objetivos do projeto, as propostas de trabalho desenvolvido no colégio, além das reuniões realizadas na UEPG e a função dessas reuniões. Enfatizamos que o que será produzido pelos bolsistas poderá ser melhorado de acordo com os conteúdos propostos, material didático e nas sugestões e orientações das Professoras Supervisoras Silvana Dück e Mara Lucia Serpa bem como nas leituras realizadas.

Feita a apresentação, ressaltamos a importância do projeto no que diz respeito ao trabalho de língua inglesa realizado no colégio, como as oficinas, próximos worshops, as experiências e técnicas que apreendemos como futuros professores além de todo o conhecimento que é adquirido durante o projeto.

Texto da bolsista Thaísa B. Prado