Hablamos de lengua con niños y niñas

AN ARROW IN THE BULLSEYE - Evaluation as learning - Evaluation is an educational phenomenon that conditions the whole teaching and learning process and it can be good for many purposes. The important thing is to use it as learning, as a way of understanding, to improve the practices to which it is applied. The metaphor of the arrow in the bullseye is good to understand, in an obvious way, that one may evaluate to classify, to compare, to select or, simply, to qualify. It is necessary, however, to use it to learn and to improve the learning of the students, the dynamics of the centres, the...

Manual para la preparación de las pruebas “Test Psicotécnico”, “Entrevista Personal”, “Ortografía” y “Lengua Extranjera-inglés”, de la fase de oposición para el acceso a la Escala Básica del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía. Incluye una variada recopilación de ejercicios para entrenar aptitudes intelectuales, basados en las principales áreas de capacitación mental que se trabajan en los test psicotécnicos; consejos, reflexiones y ejercicios prácticos, junto con un completo test de personalidad; numerosos textos para practicar en la localización de errores ortográficos...

Learning about wild animals is always fascinating for children and going to a place where they can see these animals closely promotes engagement. This is a hilarious story about a boy visiting the zoo accompanied by his funny father. Miguel’s dad keeps getting confused about the unique characteristics of each animal. The book reinforces the love and good relationship between dad and son. It fosters self-confidence and respect while building up on the knowledge and language skills of the reader. The colorful illustrations are full of things for children to look at, learn from and talk about.

Covering the Mexican Revolution as a press photographer, Agustín Casasola (1874-1938) was one of the first Latin American documentary photographers. In 1903, he founded the Mexican Association of Journalists and, in 1911, the Society of Media Photographers. He devoted his career to building the Casasola Archive, which today is an essential photographic record of Mexican history.