1. A way to start: Icebreakers and previous knowledge

    How shall a teacher start a lesson? What can she/he do in order to capture the students attention?
This is what we have done the first day of this subject:

• Icebreakers: They are short activities used at the beginning of the class to give time enough to the students so they can focus on the upcoming lesson. They can be group dynamics, a short video, etc. 
• Introducing myself: It's a good icebreaker for a first day in a subject. It allows the teacher to know the class (and even among the students) and the students to meet the teacher.

• Previous knowledge: It is very important for a teacher to know what is the starting point of their students in the subject in order to adapt the contents to the real level of  the students. To do so, we have done a group dynamics in which we had to translate into English the title of the subject "Orientación educativa y acción tutorial" and try to define it broadly. As we tried to reach a consensus, first we thought it individually, then by couples and, finally, in teams of 4. At this stage we tried to bring our ideas together. Here there is what we came up with: 

Num	Title	Definition
1	School counselling and educational orientation	School counselling and educational orientation is about school counselling which involves recognising academic and personal problems in order to help children to overcome them by adopting the established instructions to each student's context.
2	Educational orientation and counselling	A set of tools to help us to identify and deal with educational problems whose aim is to guide a class which is composed of different kind of children (context matters).
3	School guidance and tutorial action	A kind of guidance to provide tools focused on children to solve problems about their learning and development at school
4	Educational guidance and students’ counselling	It will provide us with skills to help students and deal with diversity in the classroom, getting the best out of them to become critical citizens in society.
5	School guidance and counselling	It shows what teachers have to know about tutorizing. We, as teachers, must know what kind of activities are the best for children to reach the objectives and guide them during Primary school.

Key words: counselling, problem solving, identify, context, tools, guidance, diversity, 'tutorizing', educational objectives.

Self-Reflection: 

From a didactics point of view, we discovered that we already knew some concepts and although we had many things to learn and polish up, we were able to state some concepts to start with. I think it is very important to take into account the previous knowledge of the students in whatever you are going to teach. Mainly I can find 2 reasons: The first one is to encourage the students and the second one is to give a broad idea of the class level in order for the teacher to adapt his/her lessons to this starting point. 

From a linguistic point of view, we have learned that some words don't have meaning at all in English or they don't have the same meaning as in Spanish or even they aren't used in the same contexts (e.g. tutorizing...)

During this class I reinforced the idea that it is easier to create a learning atmosphere when students feel that the teacher is a close and approachable person. It is easier to work with a person if you know something about her/him.

The only improvement I would suggest for a first class is the importance to handle or to post a study guide of the subject with the themes, the way they are going to develope them (methodology), how the subject is going to be evaluated (evaluation criteria), some broad bibliography... I think it helps the student to figure out a broad idea of the subject and to work in two different ways: the one of learning and the one that involves marks.