MAIN AIMS
To use the radio as an educational tool.
To improve children’s autonomy, responsibility and self-esteem
To get to know and value Basque, Spanish and English cultures.
To expand pupils general knowledge.
To develop their communication skills: opinions, feelings, ideas, contents, ...to learn how to communicate in different ways.
To understand and create oral and written messages,according to the peculiarities of different contexts.
To improve pupils’ oral expression.
To motivate children to use the language as a communicating tool.
To reinforce cooperation, participation, inclusion and respect.
To make relationships easier between school and neighbourhood community members .
To make a radio programme every week.
BASIC COMPETENCES
To learn to think and to learn
Interpretation of information: based on understanding.
To create Information: development of creative thinking.
To evaluate the information: critical awareness. Evaluate their work, conflict resolutions and making decisions to improve.
To learn to communicate:
Oral and written language, different languages.
Mass media resources
Social communication awareness
Information and communication technologies
Learning to work together
Relationship among people
Democratic participation, based in respect
Working together, based on teamwork
Social coexistence rules
Gender and cultural variety
Positive attitude towards conflict management and resolution
To learn to be oneself
Self emotional control and balance
Autonomy
Self-esteem
Personal inclusion
Art sensitivity
Learning to undertake and do
Analytical stage: get information, analyse it and keep it
Creative stage: work on information or new ideas
Updating stage: update what there was
Evaluation stage: evaluate the work done and encourage improvements.
Last stage: work accomplishment
SPECIFIC AIMS
To learn about radio broadcasting tools and how to use them.
To work on different strategies and techniques to get information.
To organize, order and summarize the information with a critical sense.
To develop the different types of texts: dialogues, narrative, descriptions, dramatized reading, news, rhymes, jokes, monographs, ads, contests, ...
To practice and reinforce oral expression and improve the quality of language,
The use of a proper tone
To learn and use idioms.
To be aware of the influence that messages from mass media can people have and to develop a critical sense
To be aware of different language resources to get a better communication.
While broadcasting, use proper speaking skills in different situations, learning how to speak in front of the audience..
To learn writing skills in different types of texts: dialogues, stories, rhymes, comics, pastimes, news summaries, ads, …
Reading comprehension and expressive reading improvement.
EVALUATION INDICATORS
They find the right information for each passage, using different formats and distinguish what it is right.
They can write the guideline out of the information, using the necessary language resources.
They can decide the way they are giving the information according to the listeners (children ,parents ,..)
To be well understood, they use the correct intonation, speed and pronunciation. They put stress on some words or ideas they want to emphasize. They use the right intonation to express feelings.
They can use non linguistic resources. For example: music, sounds, …
The use of language is correct.
They can improvise properly if they are requested.
Required decisions are made.
They respect partners turns, rhythm and judgment and they calmly accept them.
They take their own responsibility about their work and they care, so they make group work easier, showing a positive attitude.
They do team work properly, doing good work on their own part.
The presenter shows coherence and cohesion among the different parts.
They show certainty and naturalness.
METHODOLOGY, ACTIVITIES ORGANIZATION AND TIMING
GENERALLY:
The bases of information technologies must be included on the educational programme.
Children learn how to use the radio system: on the process, they must learn the good use of the internet (to get music or sounds, for example).
They must try, little by little, to get more complex radio programmes, beautiful and artistic assemblies. They will also find interesting music or they will create some.
Teachers must guide pupils on the way to achieve the educational goals.
To write the the guideline, teachers must create a sample worksheet.
TIMING:
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER:
Make a radio programme at ‘Eguzki Irratia’:
Brainstorming
Analyse a programme and summarize it.
Create a programme in class, record the rehearsal and listen and analyze it. Recognise what it is needed to be improved.
JANUARY-MAY:
Broadcasting radio programmes
Organize workshops with children to work on what is needed, so the children will get more confident. For example, how to write a guideline, to do spontaneous work, out loud reading, learning about the system, …(according to necessity)
Start building an audio archive:
Music (Teachers and children can create a melody that identifies all the radio programmes).
Language oral resources: proverbs, idioms, stories, rhymes, poems, jokes, riddles, ...
JUNE:
Evaluation
Teachers
Pupils
Families
People from the neighbourhood or community who have collaborated
Each 5th and 6th grade class will prepare and broadcast the radio programme in turns. In this way everybody will have time to listen and analyze the work done and to prepare a new one.
We will prepare the programmes this way: We will decide the contents of the programmes by collecting everybody’s ideas.
Once we organize the programming, each group will complete its own part. In order to accomplish the work successfully, it is necessary to plan the contents carefully and fill in the guideline. On the guideline there are two different parts: the literary text (what the speaker will say) and the technical part (the technical awareness by the people in charge of the radio broadcaster. They will get into the radio station in the same order they appear in the guideline we have arranged beforehand. They will review their work with their teacher and rehearse it personally. At least for the first programmes, general rehearsals will be necessary.
The programmes will be recorded and broadcasted, and after that, they will be listened to in class to analyze them, by following a guideline. That will be helpful to improve whatever it is not as good as expected.
Besides, the radio programmes will be listened in all or most classrooms at school.
CONTENTS
The language itself: as we use the language, we become aware of it.
Formal and informal language: vocabulary, neologisms, text messages, ...
Oral expression work: To know what and how to say is the strong point to get a better communication among people; the way they show the others what they have learnt; how to do interviews; the significance of intonation, the importance of the way they say things; to emphasize words orally; relaxing exercises; to calm down while reading; how to pronounce difficult words properly, reinforcement for slow readers, to work on spontaneous speeches, how to listen actively to correct mistakes and to work and improve understanding.
Relationship with the environment: To get to know the environment, the reporter's role through the interview and report; cultural, art, sports, science activities,...the creative process of a communicative speech: classmates, school, teachers, other schools, families…; information management: RHETORIC
A tool to learn social habits and values: responsibility, concern, when in group or single; autonomy: to accomplish the radio programme by themselves; cooperation: to distribute the tasks, each pupils agreements, tendency towards critique and self-critique; good attitude towards surpassing conflicts.
Creativity: different sound ressources: music, sounds, silences, …;different genres; humour expressions; imagination; music editing.
The importance of listening: a tool to include around us.
PARTS OF A RADIO PROGRAMME:
PLANNING: What is the target? What do we want?
LESSON CONTENTS: All the children propose some contents and they agree to choose and work on some of them.
TO ACCOMPLISH A PROGRAMME: Every group must create a guideline and a programme. Then, they must organize the contents and share them out.