Bloom's Taxonomy

 Knowledge

1. What does mean “organism plus environment”?
2. How is neoliberalism described?
3. What are the categorical types of literacy?
4. What is about the cultural literacy?
5. How is ecopedagogy defined?

Comprehension

1. What would you do as a prospective teacher to encourage students to conserve the environment?
2. what is the purpose of the environmental movement?
3. How do you interpret the phrase “ the progressive educator must always be moving out on his or her own, continually reinventing me and reinventing what it means to be democratic in his or her own specific cultural and historical context”?
4. How do you associate "sustainable society" in term of "ecological sustainability?
5. According to Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers delineate three categorical types of literacy, can you make a contrast between these?

 Application

1. How do you show the code for understanding the basic ecological unit of survival in your daily life?
2. Which could be some strategies to solve what human production and consumption cause in flora and fauna?
3. How did U.N. Stockholm conference change the people’s attitude about the environment issue?
4. Which were the causes affecting the publication of Earth Charter?
5. Can you relate the Environmental Education as contested terrain? Why?

Analysis 

1. How do you explain the meaning of transnational technocapitalism and its purposes?
2. According to the author, how he connect rapid advances in military science and technology?
3. How do you explain the fact that implement Environmental Education had not been defined before Stapp defined this discourse?
4. Compare O'Sullivan's perspective and Gonzalez-Gaudiano’s perspective about Transformative Education. What did you find different?
5. What can you infer about ecological sustainability?

Summary

1. According to the reading “Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a broad-base, pedagogy of liberation for animals, nature and the oppressed people of the earth, how do you generalize the Ecological Catastrophe in the 21st century?
2. According to the reading “Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a broad-base, pedagogy of liberation for animals, nature and the oppressed people of the earth, describe the role of capitalism in the 21st century.
3. How do you describe the process from being environmental literacy to being ecoliteracy?
4. How do you describe the process from an environmental education to an education for sustainable development?
5. Design a mental map with the main characteristics of the “Zoo School”.

 Evaluation

1. How do you judge the phrase “living beings and organic habitats are being culled and destroyed in the name of human production and consumption at staggering rates”? Are you agree or disagree? support with examples.
2. Evaluate the use of an environmental education, what are the positive and negative effects of using an environmental approach in the education field?
3. Compare and assess the idea of promoting sustainable development and improving environmental issues through education with the context of education in Colombia.
4. Compare a transformative education with a biocentric approach within the English Education field.
5. Evaluate the expansion of globalization around the world, what are the advantages and disadvantages?

Examine a cultural pattern in your country that you think a foreign visitor should be aware of in order to adjust more easily and avoid intercultural conflicts and misunderstandings. Consider such things as values, beliefs, communication styles, and concepts of time.

According to CNN news channel, the Colombia situation has changed compared to the time where it country was known by drug trafficking or the character of Pablo Escobar. If you want to travel and enjoy this beautiful country, you must put aside the ridiculous stereotypes. Colombia is not Pablo Escobar.

Today Colombia is so much more than that. Colombia should be recognized by the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Likewise, my country should be identified by talented athletes such as Mariana Pajon, Nairo Quintana, James Rodriguez, or performers as Juanes and Shakira.

Colombia has the world's best coffee. Besides, this place has a major diversity flora and fauna. Their people are the most cheerful of the whole planet.

In terms of religions, most Colombians are Catholics however, exist the freedom of religious belief. On the other hand, we Colombians are emotional or social. We shake hands or even kiss our cheeks to greet us. For our is important to make eye contact when we talk, something different and considered rude in other countries.

Whose viewpoint is expressed?

This article is expressed by Psychologists and published in the Washington Post by Lisa Fazio.

What does the author want us to think?

The author wants to create awareness in the society about the information we receive. She wishes that we can detect errors in what we read and listen, for us to take part in different aspects, political, economic, scientific and cultural without making mistakes for misinformation.

What viewpoint is not expressed? Whose voice do we not hear?

I consider that participants' voice should be heard to know their views about these kinds of mistakes when they answer questions.

What is an alternative perspective of the text?

The most relevant alternative is a careful reading to catch errors and misinformation in resources like tv, newspaper, and website. Besides, Professional fact-checkers have an essential role to correct false information before being used in the world.

Can you think of other questions this text responds to?

I believe that this article responds the next question.
why students get bad grades in class?

What are the differences of English teaching in public and private schools?

The knowledge of English is important for the intellectual development of the student and more when this language is completely changing the world. But, the teaching of this area is not appreciated in the same way at the public as private schools. In public education, teachers do not have adequate technological resources, class hours are not enough or even worse teachers are not qualified to teach English.

First, I was a student of a public school and from my experience, English class was absolutely boring, my teacher had knowledge but I was not motivated to learn English, the class it was always developed in the same way, we used the dictionary and notebook. My school did not have enough technological resources to students could work and for this reason, the teacher was limited to implement another type of activity. It is totally different from private schools where teachers have the advantage of using technologies to provide more didactic learning.

Second, Public schools are not spending the same number of hours for English subject, as do with subjects like maths, Spanish, and science because these schools not considered English significant. As an example, I am doing a practice in a public school with fifth-grade students where they see only one hour of class per week. Time is not enough to explain the different topics and encourage to develop the abilities that children need.

Last but not least, teachers have to fulfill a schedule and for this, they sometimes have to complete teaching subjects for which they are not qualified. In other words, a math teacher will teach English, if he does not have full academic positions. Making the education provided to students is not of the same quality as if taught by an English teacher.

In conclusion, is clear the differences between English teaching in public and private schools, where teachers have more opportunities to implement new strategies to teach English as regard as resources.